Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.tv,net.video Subject: Re: cable ready TV/VCR Message-ID: <176@pucc-i> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 17:47:07 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-i.176 Posted: Thu Feb 2 17:47:07 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 03:18:08 EST References: <202@hou2b.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 17 If you can get Showtime (or any other premium channel) on your TV or VCR, without going through the cable box, that means that the channel is not scrambled in your area. TV's and VCR's are not capable of unscrambling programs. If you are not paying for the channel, it means that the company failed to filter it out. You may manage to get a free ride for a while, but there is a good chance that your cable company will eventually start scrambling. -- Dave Seaman ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags "Against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."