Context: my apartment building used to provide basic cable to all the residents, and we had cable boxes in our apartments as well as in the lounge spaces in the main office building. They discontinued the service for residents and we had to turn in our boxes, but the tvs in the lounge space still have cable boxes and get those channels.
If I bring a cable box from a friend’s place and plug it into my wall in my apartment, will I have cable again?
I guess what I’m asking is, does the service really come from the box or from the cables in the wall?
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Having worked in the periphery of our local cable TV company in the 80s and 90s in my part of Canada, the difference between regular and premium cable TV was an RF trap they put on your line in the box on your street that would filter the higher channels from ever reaching your box.
Getting a set of box keys was of little issue, and late-night visits to remove the traps would mean free TV upgrades.
That all ended in the late 90s with the introduction of cable internet and digital TV, but they were fun times.
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