On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Yep, it was a point-to-point service (or something like that). You got a
> special directional antenna attached to your roof.
Are you sure you're not thinking of old-fashioned satellite TV? Not
the modern mini-dish stuff; I'm talking about the giant C-band dishes.
They're used by TV networks to distribute their programming from
central studios to local broadcast points and cable head-ends. The
occasional home AV snob would have a receiver. The programming was
all transmitted in the clear so there was nothing stopping people
other than the (usually significant) expense of the equipment.
> Can anyone correct me if I am wrong?
The always-reliable Wikipedia </irony> says that HBO began as one of
the first pay TV services using underground cable in Manhattan, and
Manhattan only. It later added satellite distribution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO
-- Ben
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