Vintage TV Commercial WHT Pay Television Wometco Home Theatre
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- This was a " cable - less" pay movie service..I do not know anyone that had it.I did pull a few of the "converter boxes" out of the trash over the years... I do not know if this commercial ever aired.I did a clean-out years ago of what was left of an animation/graphics
company.There were hundreds of 3/4 inch U matic tapes.I kept about a dozen,the rest went to the dump.This and the other old
commercials I have been posting were on these tapes.
What a blast from the past. 2 knobbs one channel box was made of a wood finish
It was like a laminated wood look.
I remember this as a kid growing up in Brooklyn NYC and my mom had this with that big box with disks on top of the TV.
You may be thinking of laser discs? There was a period of time when laserdiscs which were pretty big like big record albums would go in a device. WHT was just like a cable set top box.
@@CFL-TECH I am trying to get my hands on one of the boxes today. I would at least love to get a schematic just for nostalgia
I lived in Crooklyn too at the time, and I remember watching this. However we didn't get cable in my section of Cypress until the early 90's. As far as I why that was, I couldn't tell you... Some said it didn't work in that area, some said it wasn't feasible economically, some said it was the way the area was situated for cable traffic, etc.... You mentioned disc.. I remember before we got our first VCR, we had Selectivision which is basically a jumbo disc player... We would go to Caldors, Crazzy Eddies, or TSS to get our discs. Those were the days my friend.
@@CFL-TECH I meant to say was dials not discs on the box it was if memory serves right looked like partial wood type pattern and brown no buttons that I remember
@@juanelorriaga2840yeah it looked like this: images.app.goo.gl/RrqAy7YJFd8Yyxm46
Its so crazy that I remember having this when around 9-12 years old yet my Father doesn't remember.
Wow, really your parents don't remember it? A lot of people actually don't remember it. My family had a box when we lived in Coney Island New York. I would love to get a box today. I know someone possibly has one sitting in their attic somewhere.
WHT introduced me Apocalypse Now, Rocky, Star Wars, KAGEMUSHA, Dress to Kill, Caddyshack, 2001 A Space Odyssey etc etc back in 1981 Queens NY till 1987. 1988 we got BQCABLE now TimeWarner or by now another name. Beautiful Times. I thank my mom for it. She pick it. What a great Era to see and witness these films.
Wow my childhood!!! I remember my dad got WHT for us.. but my mom didn't want me to watch, because it was R rated movies in our home now. But some things that were kid appropriate were good. 😂 We were the first in our neighborhood to get it. It was such a big deal to our neighbors. 😂...Then later we got HBO. the rest is history. 🙂
Channel U-68 was my outlet during the day. It would feature Speed Racer cartoons, The Uncle Floyd Show and several talk shows. At night, the TV scrambled and displayed a voice over and some music so we couldn't see or hear anything. I wanted to see Rocky III & Blade Runner so bad back then....LOL
Wht bought back alot of memories 4 us I went by my cousin for the weekend 2 watch the channels and the night cap flicks late night kept it on the low from his mom my auntie good ol days💪🙏🙏👍👊😁
Warner Home Television!!! No ONE knows about this shit today. My grandparents had it! Remember "Nightcap"?
Wometco Home Theater, actually.
Nightcap was why I slept over my cousins house just so I can see breasts lol
WHT, Wometco Home Theater, was a scrambled over-the-air UHF broadcast, from WWHT Ch. 68 Newark., NJ - and later WSNL Ch. 67 from Smithtown, NY. They'd offer free 'loop' antennas - and if you lived a slight range away from the transmitters, you'd get expensive 'snow' mixed in with your movie.. I never subscribed, but at night, as a kid, they'd show 'boobies' at night ("Nightcap") - and on my Woolworth-bought 12" B/W Hitachi T.V. - you could play with the vertical and horizontal hold and just about stabilize the picture just to see 'enough'.....*sigh*...Now it's 2 clicks to porn for the young 'uns..
LOL brings back memories ...absolute classic
I had this too in Brooklyn NY and seeing the tits late at nite but they had a hardcore channel too my dad had it
Correct! They would give you a little device that you would put on your outside antenna so you can pick up the signal. Then there was a wire that ran from that device to the back of the box. It was pretty nifty for the time.
Damn bro! 😂 Too true. The shit we had to go through to see some semi-scrambled titties. Today’s kids will never know how real the struggle was.
I still had the old WHT box until maybe 15 years ago. After the station went off the air for good, its was Home shopping network or QVC when you turned it on.
I wanted so badly to subscribe to this when I was a kid but my family wasn't having it.
Wow I still remember that jingle in the commercial. I think they did a more rock n roll version in the mid 80s
That wood box brings back memories 👍🏼
Yeah, I met a guy that had one in his attic. He had just thrown it away before he told me he had one. I would love to get my hands on one today
Next best thing to cable. The only thing compared to cable back.them. They used to go on at 8:00 every night. I think they used to go on a little earlier on the weekends. It was like your little secret connection to movies out of that little box. It used to have issues sometimes with scrambled displays. They had sports on there as well which was pretty cool.
Can't really be caled "America's premier movie network" if it's only available in select NY & NJ & CT areas.
Does anyone remember a movie that would come on WHT around the mid 80s about a guy who had a one man war against the cops and army while defending his House? And I don't think it was the movie tank.
I used to watch it as a kid and it's driving me nuts because I can't remember the name.
I had it in Brooklyn
$19 a month was a lot back then for some people in the late 70’s.
That was a lot of money for a premium channel. I had cable in the late 1970's, we had the Z Channel and it was $9.99 per month. There were (IIRC) 13 basic cable channels that cost $9.99 for the package so if you had everything it cost about $20 a month.
LOL, $19/month is $80 in 2021, talk about expensive monthly subscription
my mother's boyfriend had this shit...it couldn't compare to HBO but it did have those "non rated" movies HBO didn't show...back then I thought I was watching actual porn...LOL. In WHTs defense this is where I 1st saw 16 CANDLES what a classic, I dont think HBO had the rights to that movie.
It was $85 dollars for the descrambler and 19.95 a month which in my mothers deranged save a holic mind was too much to spend each month
Sounds kind of like what we had in the Chicago area in the early 80s...it was called OnTV.
If I remember correctly,it was just a scrambled UHF signal,you rented the "descrambling box " 19$ a month sounds like a lot of $$$ for 1980
True but VCRs were really expensive then...and I don't think there were a lot of video rental stores around at the time. I guess if you wanted movies in your house back in the day, it was going to be pricey
I remember those days...there were 3 rental places here in town in 82.
A school friend and myself were the only 2 people I knew that had VCR's.
The bigger rental store here had Video Players(and camera's) for rent.They were players only, in a heavy blue bag,with the hookup instructions printed on the bag. They rented out VHS and Beta,but the rent-able players were VHS. Why do I remember this useless knowledge????
Did You Record The WWHT Sign Off Before The Promotional Feed?
We had HBO on Long Island and made fun of people with WHT
I had it
Isn't this the one that came with a key
we was not nuts just nut to spend all that money
0:12 - Luther Vandross?
"LANSDOWNE"?
Didn't this have porn late at night?
Yeah I remember seeing some porn on it and all I remember was seeing a lot of hair lol hey it was the late 70s and dawn of the 80s
Mine had a key you could turn at 11pm for soft core porn, before boob jobs and waxing.
$20 us dollars a month in 1980 ?
The inflation calculator says that was equivalent to $53.87 in current money.
@@doro626 Wow ...
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