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Subject: HBO in the 80s
Written By: Lindee on 11/29/07 at 4:55 pm
Does anyone here remember when you could get HBO only (without having cable). You had to have a special antenna for your roof. We had it from 1984-1986 until we got cable. That's when HBO started with their original series of shows like The Hitchhiker and First And Ten.
Subject: Re: HBO in the 80s
Written By: nicolelittle1977 on 11/29/07 at 5:27 pm
OMG!!!!!!! Finally somebody that agree with me. Back in the 80s, depending on a certain neighborhood, you can get HBO without cable. My grandmother and my mother lived in complex apartments, and I remember that special antenna that be on top of the roof. They've been having HBO without cable since 1980. It used to be on channel 2 back then. Now, this was before I lived with my father. I used to live with my mom at the time, and I remember watching movies that were released a year before. Like, say Fatal Attraction was released in 1987, HBO would have the movie in 1988!!! It's kind of good in a way. That way, you didn't feel like you are behind or something. I remember when I was a little girl. I used to watch Fraggle Rock a lot on HBO. I remember watching a whole lot of movies back then. It was good ones too. I think that getting HBO without cable stopped in the early 90s. I remember because I think that's when it became illegal, and everybody had to get cable now. Everybody had to get a cable box. At the time some people lived in impoverished neighborhoods, and they coudn't afford cable, so they would get HBO without cable.
Subject: Re: HBO in the 80s
Written By: ladybug316 on 11/29/07 at 8:02 pm
Yes! There was also WHT (Wometco Home Theater), if you had the right antenna.
Subject: Re: HBO in the 80s
Written By: lemonverbina on 11/30/07 at 12:56 pm
Yeah it was WHT !!! We had it..
Subject: Re: HBO in the 80s
Written By: ultraviolet52 on 11/30/07 at 6:16 pm
I do not remember the antenna, but I do remember watching HBO in the '80s on our cable box. It was one of the "specialty channels" we got.
Subject: Re: HBO in the 80s
Written By: Lindee on 12/01/07 at 2:37 pm
They had HBO in the 80s?
Yes they did. :)
Subject: Re: HBO in the 80s
Written By: CatwomanofV on 12/01/07 at 3:12 pm
They had HBO in the 80s?
Actually, HBO started in 1972.
Cat
Subject: Re: HBO in the 80s
Written By: Doc Brown on 12/03/07 at 6:55 pm
I was only 8 when we first got HBO. I grew up on Fraggle Rock and Braingames !
We don't subscribe anymore, so I have to hit Hollywood Video a lot more for the latest movies. I think my Dad misses the boxing.
Your Pal,
Doc
8)
Subject: Re: HBO in the 80s
Written By: Timm on 12/04/07 at 11:05 am
Remember the intro to the Feature movies with the miniture city and stuff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdI90Rtzu1s