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Article #21480Re: remote cable cntrls
From: Peter Fales
Date: Wed, 24 May 1989 22:27
Date: Wed, 24 May 1989 22:27
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In article <130@swituc.UUCP>, pmb@swituc.UUCP (Pat Berry) writes: > In article <706@xroads.UUCP>, wiz@xroads.UUCP (Mike Carter) writes: > > You should concentrate on controlling the volume at your SET rather than at > > the cable box. > > Gee, someone should tell our cable company... all their converter boxes > have remote volume adjust. My cable box had this feature, fortunately it could be disabled by a switch. It works by turning the volume on the set WAY up, as high as you would ever want to listen to it, then artificially reducing the level of the sound signal sent by the decoder box. The problem was the high volume setting on the TV set was introducing an inordinate amount of 60Hz hum, when the volume was set at typical listening levels. Eventually, I just bought a TV with remote volume control. :-) -- Peter Fales AT&T, Room 5B-420 2000 N. Naperville Rd. UUCP: ...att!ihlpb!psfales Naperville, IL 60566 Domain: psfales@ihlpb.att.com work: (312) 979-8031
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnewsc!psfales From: psfales@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Peter Fales) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: remote cable cntrls Message-ID: <980@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> Date: 24 May 89 22:27:30 GMT References: <1893@ektools.UUCP> <706@xroads.UUCP> <130@swituc.UUCP> Distribution: usa Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 23