The Box - music television YOU control

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  [Deleted User] Posts: 289

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  21/12/12 - 20:16 #2

  i miss the box from back in the 90s its shit now

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  Billy Hicks Posts: 475

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  21/12/12 - 20:48 #3

  When did The Box (and for that matter, all music channels) stop letting you phone/text in to request songs? I guess when youtube became popular in 2006 it became completely irrelevant.
  
  When we got it back in 1999 it was incredible. I wouldn't buy CD singles anymore, instead I'd phone up and request the song (the number appearing on screen *as you typed it on the phone keypad* which was ridiculously exciting), have a video ready and press record when it appeared. Songs I did this for included 'Better Best Forgotten' by Steps, 'Witch Doctor' by Cartoons, 'Right Here Right Now' by Fatboy Slim...and if they weren't embarrassing enough, 'Thank ABBA For The Music'. Come on, I was ten!

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  21/12/12 - 22:11 #4

  Billy Hicks wrote: »

  When did The Box (and for that matter, all music channels) stop letting you phone/text in to request songs? I guess when youtube became popular in 2006 it became completely irrelevant.

  
  I loved the video text codes! Perhaps one of the reasons why I watched music video channels :D! By the time they got rid of it, I immediately tuned out. I think Clubland TV still does it, last time I remember. But yeah, as soon as Youtube/VEVO became an instant hit, music video channels just started declining. This was also around the same time TOTP and CD:UK faced their demise. Plus, many people already knew the new weekly charts via internet forums and Radio 1, hours before TOTP came on. Don't get me started on the CD:UK's TRL style voting bullshit during their final years. That was horrible.

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  simmer Posts: 953

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  22/12/12 - 08:35 #5

  Omg! So many memories. I loved the box.

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