Please Don't Ignore -- Where can I find old analogue cable converters? What happened to United Artis

Hi:

Please don't neglect this message. Please respond with reasonable
answers.

In April of '89, I rented a cable-converter-box from United Artist. It
was obviously an analogue cable-converter as at that time, there were
no digital equivalents. It had red LED display for the channels. I
gave it back to United Artist Cable in August of '92.

Where can I find this box or something similar? I have the book that
came with the cable box but it doesn't give the model-# or anything I
could use to ID it?

Also, what happened to United Artist? I called up their phone number
in August of '94, and their name was changed to "TCI Cable Vision".
That phone number is no longer valid.

This cable box had the option of connected to channel 2 or 3 in the
television. This was weird because usually the option is channel 3 or
4, as it was with the Nintendo Entertainment System I had at the time.

Currently, what is the name of the cable company who used to be United
Artist?

No offense but please respond with reasonable answers & keep out the
jokes, off-topic nonsense, taunts, insults, and trivializations. I am
really interested in this.


Thanks in advance,

Radium

 

www.Ebay.com do a search for cable box. Sounds like a Jerrold.

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-- jayembee

 

First reasonable answer to everyone else;
The OP is Radium. He's a k00k. Only he could come up with a need for an
obsolete cable-tv converter. Only he could make a moral issue out of
the fact that UA cable went bye-bye.

Read the history
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=R...ent-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-32,GGGL:en
( http://tinyurl.com/yp85uh )

 

I used to often play my Nintendo when it was connected to channel 3.
However, I was change the TV channel to 4. I could see the video of
the game but it was fuzzy and covered in grains. The music of the game
was absent, and instead was filled with frightening-yet-enjoyable
tones [sounding like a buzzer, lawn mower, or electric shaver] along
with a faint audio of what was being discussed on the channel 4 news.
I would get so scared, yet I would enjoy it.

I could only get this effect when I had the cable box. Without the box
it does not work. The cable box also seemed to filter out most of the
random noise while keeping the heterodyne-like qualities of the audio-
disruptions. The TV build also matters. I still have the TV I used.
It's a Mitsubishi CS-2655R. What I like about this TV is that it is
extremely sensitive to weak signals. Most TVs will simply not play any
audio when receiving these weak signals. Most TVs have a cut-off that
is way above that of my CS-2655R. I've got 4 TV in my house including
the CS-2655R. One of the other TVs is also Mitsubishi but is much
newer -- I bought it in May of 2000. This TV does not receive the weak
magnetic disruptions, my CS-2655R is able to capture. I wonder why all
the other TVs have a stricter limit to the softest sound they can
receive.

 

I'm sorry I answered your question. Damn googlegrouper I keep forgetting to
look.


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If you were to use a real newsreader, you could filter the dipshits out.

 

On Or About Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:41:53 -0000, Without Any Hesitation
Or Thinking Twice, Radium Stumbled Over To The Keyboard And wrote The
Following In The
24hoursupport.helpdesk,rec.arts.tv,sci.electronics.basics,rec.video.cable-tv,alt.cable-tv
News Group:

http://miami.craigslist.org/ele/402870619.html

 

YaddaYaddaYadda.

You sound like the old man I had to deal with after a picture-tube
replacement back in 1969. The old bastard refused to pay because there
was no "brown halo around big things on the screen".

Nobody but you can see or feel these things you expound upon. What's
your next one? A particular showerhead that tingled your nuts "just so"?
A type of bean that made your farts resonant at a certain frequency?

 

No, it's because he's a known troll.

He has to keep at it because he constantly cross-posts and constantly
asks nonsense questions, and doesn't want anyone responding to that
rather than his actual question.

He posted this to
24hoursupport.helpdesk
rec.arts.tv
sci.electronics.basics
rec.video.cable-tv
alt.cable-tv
I suspect none of them are relevant. At the very least, there
are far better newsgroups to be asking this, but since getting
an answer to his question isn't important while getting a response
is, he picks newsgroups that will get a response.

You likely don't recognize him as a troll since this may be
the first time he's posted in rec.arts.tv but for some of
us in the other newsgroups his nonsense posts are a regular
occurance.

Michael

 

Well, in spite of Google shitting all over usenet, I won't take the
extreme step of filter all their users. I will take this opportunity to
filter some more cross-posted newsgroups. Nothing agin your locales,
but they are ones I read, and this will help clean up mine.



Brian

 

To the best of my knowledge, it's women who use showerheads to cause
special tingles.