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Originally Posted by rpm1200

I have a Video Magazine buyer's guide from 1988 that I saved. It has listings for the Kenwood TV line including a couple of AV systems. There are pictures of the KMT-2026 but none of the 2016A. The same issue shows TVs from Pioneer and Yamaha and a Technics AV system, so there must have been somewhat of a push for audio companies to come out with video components at that time.

What is funny is the part about it being cable compatible. I assume it was for some systems, but not Communicom in Los Angeles back in the late 80s. The TV had three f-type connectors on the back. You put the cable from the wall into the first, then the input of the cable box connected to the second, with the third coming out of the box to the TV. From there you were supposed to be able to switch the TV to ant A and be able to use the TV's tuner to view any cable channels not "scrambled." For "scrambled" you would switch to ant B and use the box with TV on channel 3. I tried this and every morning my box wouldn't work. I would have to call the company and they would send a reset to the box. After this happened for the 3rd time, I figured it had something to do with the TV. So I called for tier 2 support and it seems every night the company poles the boxes. If they don't respond to 3 attempts, they disable them. So when my TV was off, the query wouldn't be passed through to the box.