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Old 09-18-2008, 05:28 PM
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Can anyone remember the older cable companies from the early 80's or from around the time cable came out? I have been looking everywhere to try to find the names of the companies I used to belong to years ago before they were bought out or just disappeared. Anyone?
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Oohh I remember Dimension Cable here in AZ. They had such an ugly set top box with red LED numbering to display the channels. heh That was in the early 80's.
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Can anyone remember the older cable companies from the early 80's or from around the time cable came out? I have been looking everywhere to try to find the names of the companies I used to belong to years ago before they were bought out or just disappeared. Anyone?
I remember one of the first pay-TV companies that tried to compete with HBO but only offered ONE channel - ON TV. (That was the name of the company.) We had that for, oh, about a year or so, then we canceled because it was getting to be way too pricey for one stupid movies-only channel.

The first cable company we ever subscribed to, Dynamic Cablevision, ceased to exist when it was bought out by MediaOne, which in turn was bought out by AT&T, and now we have Comcast.
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That is awesome that you guys remembered those. I can't think of any at all and I have been racking my brain to try and remember at least one of them from the old days.
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no i can't remember it.its really nice to hear these names.in olden days,they will use led for indication.now a days,some providers are doing like that only.it helps some person to operate easily.
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