[Sephiroth]

@ TJS

Ah - a photo of the inside of the brown box would help answer your questions more reliably. (if you can be arsed to provide a phot, do please separate things as clearly as possible for ease of discernment!).

Essjay may know more about the Nynex build, but the build in my area was Telecential --> Comtel --> Cabletel = NTL.

Mine is a grey box with a thick black cable emerging from a green undergound hose. The telephone wires pop out of the black sheathing and distribute out of the box and round two places in the house. The digital cable goes into a splitter that goes out round the wall to two other TV box places in the house and through the wall to another room which further distributes via a splitter to cable modem and TV.

So your brown cables - did Nynex do FM radio separately? Or is that even how analogue TV was provided? Essjay?