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    Cable black box

    Who remembers ‘this back in the early 90’s .
    we would go to my friends house to watch all the boxing and WWE PPV’s , showtime, hbo, etc etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pinoy-T-X View Post
    Who remembers ‘this back in the early 90’s .
    we would go to my friends house to watch all the boxing and WWE PPV’s , showtime, hbo, etc etc.
    I had a buddy who had the black box lol
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    I use to watch porn on it in my parents bedroom, even when they were home. Never got caught with my willy out Thank God small miracle in-fact. That’s when I knew I was gonna be a gambler.
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    I’ve had black boxes in the past. They smell the same, I guess.

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    Like for example Moms down stairs doing the dishes & Dads in the shower. Oh I see an opportunity to rub one out ! This was right before the internet became the King of porn.

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    ^this is how porno movie scenes start

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    spoke to my friend (who had one back in the day) today & he was telling me about a spray that keeps your licence plate from being read by light cameras/ez pass camera etc....

    some guys are always trying to "get over on the man".

    thanks for the trip down memory lane
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    No black box here, I just tried to find a boob on the fuzzy channels that didn't come in.

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    My father-in-law had one of those black boxes. He was a real law-and-order type guy, so I would give him crap that he was stealing. He would say that he's just grabbing something that's floating in the air. LOL. I kinda miss that old guy. But only a little.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VeggieDog View Post
    My father-in-law had one of those black boxes. He was a real law-and-order type guy, so I would give him crap that he was stealing. He would say that he's just grabbing something that's floating in the air. LOL. I kinda miss that old guy. But only a little.
    Hahaha.... Don’t lie now, you miss him a lot

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    I'm too tired to come up with a funny response, but I can relate to all of these responses. Good luck today fellas!
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    Quote Originally Posted by hawkeye 16 View Post
    I'm too tired to come up with a funny response, but I can relate to all of these responses. Good luck today fellas!

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    Had one in the early 2000's and lord, I knew a lot about boxing then.

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    Anyone remember that Dish Network/Viewsat Receiver decoding? Probably around 2006-2008?? That was some good sh#$ right there. lol You needed to have a Viewsat box that had a USB port. Easy as cake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheMoneyShot View Post
    Anyone remember that Dish Network/Viewsat Receiver decoding? Probably around 2006-2008?? That was some good sh#$ right there. lol You needed to have a Viewsat box that had a USB port. Easy as cake.
    Yes, I heard about that. That was in the early 2000’s I think, when they were phasing out the boxes and converting them to digital ones. So the receiver decoding was supposed to be the new “black box”.

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    whew, for a second i thought you meant cable had a black box like a fukkin' jet, so that my wife could look back on the data and see what double anal porn I ordered up after she couldn't take it any more and passed out.....

    as for memories, you're damn right I remember em.... I'm so old I remember the first satellite dishes, the ones about twenty feet across, and you could damn sure bet that fukker would be rotating out at my grandparent's house once they all fell asleep and my cousin and I were ready to watch some "playboy channel" at 1:00 am during the holidays....

    big creeky rooster_eater would be rotatin' 190 degrees to find that fukkin' station.... came in all grainy and shit.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Auto Donk View Post
    whew, for a second i thought you meant cable had a black box like a fukkin' jet, so that my wife could look back on the data and see what double anal porn I ordered up after she couldn't take it any more and passed out.....

    as for memories, you're damn right I remember em.... I'm so old I remember the first satellite dishes, the ones about twenty feet across, and you could damn sure bet that fukker would be rotating out at my grandparent's house once they all fell asleep and my cousin and I were ready to watch some "playboy channel" at 1:00 am during the holidays....

    big creeky rooster_eater would be rotatin' 190 degrees to find that fukkin' station.... came in all grainy and shit.....
    Yup, those were the days, Auto donk.

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    I remember the the screen being all grainy your right. You would try to see whatever you could thinking you are seeing some forbidden stuff . Squinting your eyes just hoping to see something . I watched an hour once thinking it was the playboy channel thinking i was watching some forbidden erotic stuff. Three hours later i realized it was the Muppet movie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by captrobey View Post
    I remember the the screen being all grainy your right. You would try to see whatever you could thinking you are seeing some forbidden stuff . Squinting your eyes just hoping to see something . I watched an hour once thinking it was the playboy channel thinking i was watching some forbidden erotic stuff. Three hours later i realized it was the Muppet movie.
    haha.... good shit....

    i remember once the blob on the screen was lookin' like an ass humpin, and with a little more rotation it became clear enough -- tho still grainy -- to get one's jerk on.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Auto Donk View Post
    haha.... good shit....

    i remember once the blob on the screen was lookin' like an ass humpin, and with a little more rotation it became clear enough -- tho still grainy -- to get one's jerk on.....
    If its the original blob i can see that lol.

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    Paid $500 for one back around 1997 and was given a 5 year guarantee with it. It lasted almost exactly 5 years before they started to change the cable. Well worth the money for PPV and all of the pay channels.

    I remember the porn channels played cheesy music during the day and didn't switch to the actual sound until night time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pinoy-T-X View Post
    Yes, I heard about that. That was in the early 2000’s I think, when they were phasing out the boxes and converting them to digital ones. So the receiver decoding was supposed to be the new “black box”.
    Yes. It was shot down when Dish Network spent around 80-100 million to stop it. Such a large dollar amount.... kind of unbelievable. But that's what the report was.

    One rumor was that it was a former DN engineer who knew all the digital coding... and he intentionally was giving out the data on satellite forums. You took the coding from a file.... you'd load it to your USB stick..... take the USB stick to your Viewsat receiver... and boom... you were golden. Then DN would shoot the signal down in 3-4 days... and you'd do it all over again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheMoneyShot View Post
    Yes. It was shot down when Dish Network spent around 80-100 million to stop it. Such a large dollar amount.... kind of unbelievable. But that's what the report was.

    One rumor was that it was a former DN engineer who knew all the digital coding... and he intentionally was giving out the data on satellite forums. You took the coding from a file.... you'd load it to your USB stick..... take the USB stick to your Viewsat receiver... and boom... you were golden. Then DN would shoot the signal down in 3-4 days... and you'd do it all over again.
    Wow . That was golden.

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    as golden as trump's shower in the bed that obama and monkey woman slept in in moscow?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kermit View Post
    Paid $500 for one back around 1997 and was given a 5 year guarantee with it. It lasted almost exactly 5 years before they started to change the cable. Well worth the money for PPV and all of the pay channels.

    I remember the porn channels played cheesy music during the day and didn't switch to the actual sound until night time.

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    Had 1 back in late 90s. Paid $100. Worked great for about 3 months

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5mike5 View Post
    Had 1 back in late 90s. Paid $100. Worked great for about 3 months
    At least you got 3 months worth of unlimited PPV’s

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