Who remembers in the 90s to Early 00s when nikkas use to use Illegal Cable AKA Black Box

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

we called it a CHIP over here.

and it looked like the regular comcast boxes at the time. it had a chip in it.

we had one all the way up until they scrapped basic cable circa '05-06.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Yeah u had a 9 volt battery on the chip and scramble the other chip hooked into the cable box and free cable, playboy, ppv ,hbo
we had that shyt for like 10 yrs took it for granted too. amazing times, fukkin wack ass digital ruined the fun. what a run tho, what a run

 

[flea]

ahh yes "la cajita" (little box) as my father would call it. my old man cant live without HBO so he always had the newest ones on deck. I remember being home sick from school one day and my old man was doing construction around the house and he let me chill in his room and watch tv. At this time i didnt even know what porn was or that it even existed. So Im watching nickelodeon and im thinking what other channels do they have on this and i got up to channel 99 that was the playboy channel at first im like cause it was literally two naked broads on stools playing violin. This is tough for a young man because i have this raging boner and absolutely nothing to do with it. I keep going back and forth so i dont get caught and then it changed to some white broad in ballerina gear getting undressed all sensual and shyt. shyt was awesome. I couldnt wait for my brother to come home so i can show him this shyt. He comes home, parents arent in the room and i show him the playboy channel and its this smoking hot latin bytch playing with herself underneath her work desk. We were both but then my old man walked in, smacked us upside the head and told us to get outta there. i think my old man was doing the right thing but he was secretly happy his sons weren't homos.

 

[flea]

i remember the black box was how i heard my first cuss word on tv. I forgot what i was watching but this WWF promo comes on and its razor ramon and he's pointing to the camera and he says, "If u dont order wrestlemania 10, Im gonna KICK..YOUR..ASS"
that may sound like some petty shyt but at the time i was like " HE SAID ASS ON TV!!" the good ol days

 

[Rack4K]

Channel 63 AKA "the porno channel"

Free WWF/WCW/Boxing ppvs

 

[flea]

thread got me feeling nostalgic as fukk right now. I remember the old man was throwing a party one day. I dont know whats going on, im just thinking "cool, my cousins are here, we'll shoot some hoops" the night goes on and i see my old man pull the tv outside and the good ol black box . Neighbors, friends, family all gathered around the tv and its to watch the tyson vs holyfield fight i got to see LIVE tyson bite a chunk of evander holyfield's ear off. I'll never forget it. I got to witness history

 

[Kenny West]

We had this one

Oh shyt this took me back, my uncle had this jawn back when I was a kid. I thought it was legit tho

That box showed me DBZ for the first time and my brother kept sneak changing the channel to this softcore porn called Rebecca's Secret or something. All on the same night

Consequentially,

I just moved in w my girl-- so I just as of last week have paid cable. from 2002 -2014.. I had various hook ups.

I know a couple entire neighborhoods that have the hook up. My boy sells a life time of greatness for only like 300.

Yep dude who tried to sell me wanted 500 but was gonna "hook me up" with a 400$ jawn.

A few years back tho I might have took it, then made that money back thru Floyd/Manny/UFC PPV parties

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Free porn channels and Free pay per view
A young nikka was eating lovely when wrestlemania & mike tyson fights came on

I wonder if you could still obtain them today

One of my homeboys had one at his parent's crib and that was the hangout spot for real. nikkas saw all the fights and watched all kinds of Spice Channel

 

[BoogieDown23]

I remember this shyt and I was only born in 94


WWF SummerSlam




My father used to ALWAYS watch Blade on those ppv channels



Im like turn the channel! Im only FOUR!

 

[BmoreGorilla]

thread got me feeling nostalgic as fukk right now. I remember the old man was throwing a party one day. I dont know whats going on, im just thinking "cool, my cousins are here, we'll shoot some hoops" the night goes on and i see my old man pull the tv outside and the good ol black box . Neighbors, friends, family all gathered around the tv and its to watch the tyson vs holyfield fight i got to see LIVE tyson bite a chunk of evander holyfield's ear off. I'll never forget it. I got to witness history

Did you see when Tyson came back and fought Peter McNeeley? Tyson came out to Time 4 Sum Aksion by Redman

 

[patscorpio]

watching playboy and spice with a shorty on my twin bed or the futon in the dorms...shyt made no sense how easy it was..hot box memories

 

[Chris Cool]

had this shyt. Channel 20 nickelodeon. Cartoon network 49 (and that was a game changer when that channel first came out.) Channel 54.... spice. I got caught watching playboy on Martin Luther King day in 98. To this day, my parents will not let that shyt go. Every Martin Luther King day I gotta put up with some kind of porn jokes. I'll never forget those good times though.

 

[patscorpio]

boxing and hot boxes go hand in hand..through the gift of hot boxes I was watching fights at an early age with my pops, my uncle, and some of the other dads in the neighborhood...got a good part of my fight education from having access to those channels (and having my father tape them with the VCR for later viewing) to watch all these fights..so essential

 

[flea]

Did you see when Tyson came back and fought Peter McNeeley? Tyson came out to Time 4 Sum Aksion by Redman

Nah I didn't get a chance to see that one. My old man always threw parties for Tyson fights but being 6 maybe 7 years old I would sometimes fall asleep before the main event

 

[big bun]

My barber used to sell them joints back in the mid-late 90's. Pops bought three of them, one for the downstairs, one for his room and one for my room. :

Pops had one before that, but the cable company got us. They called us during a Tyson fight and asked if we wanted to order the fight. Pops was like, nah we don't want it. They must have heard the fight on in the background because the next day the box didn't work anymore LOL