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In article <ofGiErO00WC0Q2pWNR@andrew.cmu.edu> geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew) writes:
>Maybe I'm being excessively stupid, but is there anything a Radio
>Shack converter can do that a "cable ready" VCR can't?  (I realize
>that the original poster had a screwy TV setup, but I want to know for
>my own purposes!)

I use one in spite of having a "cable ready" TV and VCR.  The local cable
company supplies two cables, A and B.  Thus there are two channel 2-n.
They supply a mechanical switch to toggle between them.  The TV has an
accesory switch so I can select between A and B cable (and potentially
two more sources).

But my VCR does not support two cable inputs.  So, I use the block
converter to shift the B channels into UHF and feed them into the UHF
input of the VCR.  Thus the VCR can tune the A 2-13 normally and the
B 2-13 as UHF channels.  I miss out on some of the cable only channels
this way but they are usually the scrambled ones so I don't care much.

The real down side is finding out what channel from the guide, using the
cable chart to translate to the cable channel, and then using the band
converter chart to figure out the UHF equivelent.  In practive we have
the important stations memorized.