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Originally Posted by NowhereMan 1966
I remember when we first got HBO in 1978, we had a small box on the set, you tune it to channel 6 and turned the box on by sliding the switch to the right. I think I still have that box somewhere. We got our 1982 Zenith in early 1983 (still in use everyday) it was cable ready so we got some channels free. The company when to Jerrold boxes and never bothered to ask for the old HBO box back.
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It was 1975 when Home Box Office was first available. I remember when it was announced, and my thought was "How can they put movies on your TV set? The screen is not the right shape, not like a movie-theater screen." It did not even occur to me that they would just chop up the movies to fill the TV screen the way broadcast stations had always done. I guess I was looking for letterboxing even when it didn't exist yet.