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Broadband exhibits open to public
(old news - 12:04PM Sunday Jun 08 2008)
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The Cable Center is an educational museum designed to showcase the achievements that have been made in the cable industry. A recent interview with the CEO of the museum highlights the fact that they receive funding from major cable companies like Comcast but that they’re a non-profit, non-industry organization which serves as higher education for the industry rather than as a place where the industry can show off what it does. Despite this, the museum has just started offering exhibits open to the public which emphasize the important role that cable has played in recent years in areas like broadband provision.

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telcoforme

@verizon.net

telco is better

Id be more interested in a telco museum.

More history and more exciting products.

Cabal
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Boston, MA

Re: telco is better

Like the $200 rotary phone that can only be rented.
bogey780

join:2004-03-19
Here

I can bet a few...

posters here who are probably organizing road trips this summer just to go to this place.

suomynona

@comcast.net

Re: I can bet a few...

said by bogey780 See Profile :

posters here who are probably organizing road trips this summer just to go to this place.
With gas at $4/gal it might be cheaper for folks to go tour their phone company's central office (if they want to see antiquated telecom equipment).
bogey780

join:2004-03-19
Here

Re: I can bet a few...

It's only there because it costs money to remove equipment. So sure, you'll see a lot of antiquated equipment. Luckily the 5ESS and OC-192s are doing most of the work.
robertfl
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Re: I can bet a few...

$4.00 a gallon is nothing. the global elite (who control the price of oil.. not opec.. that's a front) want $200 a barrel.

there are already telephone museums. check out www.phonetrips.com

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LiamJunket
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Some links to interesting things at Cable Center web site

Main Page:
»www.cablecenter.org/index.cfm

Interview with Ralph Roberts and how he started up Comcast:
»www.cablecenter.org/education/li···m?id=163

Interview with John Malone, early cable pioneer:
»www.cablecenter.org/education/li···m?id=142

A history of cable. Just select a month and see the milestones:
»www.cablecenter.org/education/ex···onth.cfm

A listing of ALL the cable networks and links to each networks web site:
»www.cablecenter.org/education/li···orks.cfm

A list of all the cable operator companies and links to their web sites. And believe it or not, there are more than Comcast & TWC:
»www.cablecenter.org/education/li···tors.cfm
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cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
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Re: Some links to interesting things at Cable Center web site

I like the links to all of the other cable operators. I see Sunflower Broadband and Bend Broadband have amazing channel lineups! Wow I'm pretty astonished what they have compared to giant operator Comcast.

Smaller companies FTW!

lostinthewest

@QWEST.NET


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LiamJunket See Profile

Don't knock the Cable Center since they are only one of 2 sites dedicated to the history of Cable TV. Their oral histories are great.

Here's another one for you thats not affiliated with one single cable tv company or with the Cable Center. Its got some cool stuff. Its run by 2 old ex cable dudes and privately funded by them.

»theoldcatvequipmentmuseum.org/

As to a good telephone museum try.

»www.telcomhistory.org

It also has some cool stuff and some good links to other telephone stuff.

Can you tell I love a good museum?

rit56

join:2000-12-01
New York, NY

Displays

There's a lovely chart on display that shows the meteoric rise is prices. Astonishing the double digit price increases along with the reduction of services. The chart on their future plans for throttling, how once they eliminate net neutrality and how amazingly fast their partners speeds will be in comparison to the small companies and regular folk who can't afford to or won't pay for the express lane are amazing. It's a cool business plan. Similar to Rockerfellar and Standard oil back in the day. Make it so slow that they have to come to our site. Pretty amazing.
Lineage
rawr?
Premium
join:2006-10-19
USA

Re: Displays

You mean skyrocket. Meteors go down, not up
patcat88

join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY

where is all this

Where is my plug in a USB game controller and play video games through my cable box?

Where is plug my digital camera into my cable box and have the pics uploaded to my folder on the cable box and sent to the photolab at the pharmacy near me to be printed?

Why can't I plug my computer into the cable box's USB port and get cable internet (cable box pretends to be a USB ethernet adaptor)?

KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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Tulsa, OK

Re: where is all this

You forgot: Why do I have to get a cable box at all?

Harvey Centano

@sbcglobal.net

I wonder if the Center has a poor customer service display?

No history of the cable industry would be complete without a customer service display. Perhaps a diorama of an empty office with thousands of answering machines putting callers on hold?

lead cable man

@swbell.net

fun

I hope they have a Comcast sleep number bed and a glass display case with an inflated monthly bill prominently displayed.

chronoss2008
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join:2008-03-29

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hehe

please push 1 for ....
please push 2 for the exit

all in a foreign east indian tounge
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