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Re: My TV is in a funny spot.

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From: philip rose `94
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:02
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In article <1349.442.uupcb@ozonehole.com>, gerald.belton@ozonehole.com (Gerald Belton)  writes:

|> A while back there was a company marketing something called the "VCR
|> RABBIT."  It is/was basically a small UHF transmitter that would
|> broadcast the output from your VCR so you could watch it on other TV
|> sets around the house.
|> 
|> I bet your neighbor has one of these.  He probably has a switch box with
|> the satellite reciever, cable box, VCR, and Genesis game as inputs.  The
|> output goes to the transmitter and his main TV.  Your TV is picking up
|> his signals.

The VCR rabbit doesn't broadcast the signal.  The signal is sent through 
a narrow bandwidth pair of wires (called miniwire or something like that).

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Subject: Re: My TV is in a funny spot.
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