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Article #55335Re: Univ. Remotes for Mont. Cable TV (MD)??
From: Dave Weissman
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1992 13:17
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1992 13:17
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In <mhart.699710517@blackjack> mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes: >My very customer oriented :-( cable tv company, >Montgomery Cable TV in Mont. County, Maryland seems to have >a proprietary IR control system on their cable boxes. >I've tried two different styles of universal remotes; one of the >learning types, and the 'All-in-One' (I believe that was the name), >where you enter a code based on the manf. of the device you >wish to control. >Neither remote would control the cable box, although the learning >style one would control power on/off. Did you have a remote control in the first place. I thought Montgomery Cable had the power to disable remote control if you did not rent one of their remotes. -- Dave Weissman - Broadband and FDDI LAN Operations Group NSI TCP/IP - weissman@trust.gsfc.nasa.gov NeXT Mail to David.Weissman@trust.gsfc.nasa.gov SPRINTnet's X.400 - (C:USA,A:TELEMAIL,P:GSFC,FN:DAVID,SN:WEISSMAN) *DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER* I don't speak for nor represent the views of NASA or my company although they would both be happy if I just shut up for once......... -- Dave Weissman - Broadband and FDDI LAN Operations Group NSI TCP/IP - weissman@trust.gsfc.nasa.gov NeXT Mail to David.Weissman@trust.gsfc.nasa.gov
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101049,7faa22d09f6010ab X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-03-04 21:40:14 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!kong!nsisrv!trust!weissman From: weissman@trust.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Weissman) Newsgroups: dc.general Subject: Re: Univ. Remotes for Mont. Cable TV (MD)?? Message-ID: <weissman.699715021@trust> Date: 4 Mar 92 13:17:01 GMT References: <mhart.699710517@blackjack> Sender: usenet@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Usenet) Distribution: na Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: trust.gsfc.nasa.gov