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Help. Supposedly the Toshiba Model M-672 VCR 
is able to control cable boxes, including, I've
heard, the ones that Jones Cable uses in the 
Northern Virginia area. That's a Scientific 
Atlantic Model 8600STNN 05 in our case. 

No luck, alas. The 8600 won't let the VCR 
beam channel-chaning commands, a must if we're
to use VCRPlus+ the way we want to and pick up
all channels. Yes, my wife the gadget whiz and
I have tried ALL the brand codes available for
cable boxes. And we've varied the location of 
the 8600 to make sure the recorder can jabber 
to it successfully.

So what are we doing wrong--better that practicality
triumph over vanity--or is it possible that we have
a lemon unit? The VCR seems to work fine without the
cable box in place, but that would deprive us of
scrambled channels such as the SciFi one.

What makes this especially frustrating is that we
earlier bought a Magnavox with the assurance that
it was *wholly* compatible with Jones and the 
VCRPlus+ feature. Ideally someone out there can
save us another trip to the Best Buy return 
counter. 

Many thanks (please reply via email).

David Rothman | rothman@clark.net