# T-minus 45 till Sopranos and the cable broke, any suggestions?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-minus-45-till-sopranos-and-the-cable-broke-any-suggestions/131122>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 7, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-minus-45-till-sopranos-and-the-cable-broke-any-suggestions/131122 "2002-10-07T00:41:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-minus-45-till-sopranos-and-the-cable-broke-any-suggestions/131122/1 "2002-10-07T00:41:32Z")

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Hamsters ate it, looks like I’m going to a friend’s.

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-minus-45-till-sopranos-and-the-cable-broke-any-suggestions/131122/2 "2002-10-07T00:44:06Z")

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It airs again tomorrow night (monday). Get the cable fixed by then, and yer good to go. I know, it still sux, but whaddya gonna do?

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**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-minus-45-till-sopranos-and-the-cable-broke-any-suggestions/131122/3 "2002-10-07T03:10:56Z")

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Just out of curiosity, was the problem a complete lack of audio? If so, I had the same thing. the cable was fine on every other station, but HBO had no sound apart from the occasional split second of static.