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Re: Digital Cable Filters Now Available for Canada

#3331
From: JD
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:33
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In response to this... I work for that cable company... What you will be
creating is a non responder. The cable company flags these down.. Call you
up and book a service call to fix it... this can also be caused by incorrect
hookup... Although everything looks fine the box cannot talk back to the
cable company.

Expect someone knocking at your door within a few weeks of that filter being
on
"Slim" <heatsink11@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:wbfia.21$7Im.10@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> Oh and by the way Sammy...  You wouldn't happen to BE the same guy that
> posted the filters for sale now would you?
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> "Slim" <heatsink11@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:nZeia.4$7Im.1@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> > This is a response to all the clowns who think this filter is not a scam
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> > HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
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> > Go ahead, send your money to the scam-artist... LOL!
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> > I was reading an online article about these filters a few days ago...
They
> > said the basically the same thing as Mach1 said in his post : "...when
it
> > gets full (RAM) on the box you will be charged for everything you
> watched."
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> > I'm looking for the link as we speak, and will post it as soon as I find
> it.
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> > Slim
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> > "Todd Howard" <dyolf_knip60@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:%E8ia.2567$vs.276885@news3.calgary.shaw.ca...
> > > Yep working fine here now too...wierd....
> > > TH
> > > "Tony" <tony-k@telusplanet.net> wrote in message
> > > news:Q58ia.4027$de.827905@news2.telusplanet.net...
> > > > Link works fine for me.
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> > > > "Todd Howard" <dyolf_knip60@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:_18ia.2344$vs.256195@news3.calgary.shaw.ca...
> > > > > Link is dead...please repost...
> > > > > TH
> > > > > "T. Buckley" <guest@earth.ca> wrote in message
> > > > > news:GR7ia.11719$Jf.1128482@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> > > > > > "Sammy" <sammy@nospam.mapson> wrote in message
> > > > > > news:hu7ia.38017$cB3.232505@nnrp1.uunet.ca...
> > > > > > > Mine works ok. I have a Motorola DCT2224 box and have been
using
> > one
> > > I
> > > > > > > bought on eBay for a couple of months now and no cable bill
for
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> > > > > PPVs.
> > > > > > I
> > > > > > > just use them for the WWF wrestling events. Saves me $30 a
month
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> > > > > > > "ouch" <ouchdathurts@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> > > > > > > news:PY6ia.601053$Yo4.45501897@news1.calgary.shaw.ca...
> > > > > > > > > Don't buy it. It's sounds like a scam product.
> > > > > > > > > No refunds or exchanges for illegal products.
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> > > > > > > > If it sounds too good to be true..
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> > > > > > Just a heads up, you're probably going to eventually get a knock
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> > > the
> > > > > door
> > > > > > from the cable company.  For anyone else thinking of buying
these,
> > > > please
> > > > > > check this out:
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/884359.asp?0sl=-13.
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