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Article #7592Re: cable TV and better black boxes
From: Chris Elmquist
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 13:59
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 13:59
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In article <8627@milton.u.washington.edu> whit@milton.u.washington.edu (John Whitmore) writes: > and allows any channel you tune to be descrambled, regardless >of whether you paid extra for that particular 'premium' channel. >It's necessary for the cable company to know exactly which channel >is being unscrambled, and whether that particular channel SHOULD be >descrambled. > True... but as long as we're redesigning cable TV systems and TV and VCRs, let's just encode the channel number onto the signal so that the descrambler will know what channel the tuner as been set to. > Then all we'd need is a box that can watch the stupid >taped TV show, and tell us not to bother... > > John Whitmore Good point... -- Chris Elmquist, N0JCF elmquist@ssesco.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!nachos.SSESCO.com!elmquist From: elmquist@nachos.SSESCO.com (Chris Elmquist) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: cable TV and better black boxes Message-ID: <230@nachos.SSESCO.com> Date: 5 Oct 90 13:59:15 GMT References: <TIMS.90Oct3212314@infidel.infidel.lanl.gov> <1990Oct4.133730.28246@mlb.semi.harris.com> <229@nachos.SSESCO.com> <8627@milton.u.washington.edu> Organization: none Lines: 23