Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!jlilien From: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp) Newsgroups: net.tv,net.video Subject: Re: cable ready TV/VCR (Showtime on VCR) Message-ID: <816@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 20:52:30 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.816 Posted: Mon Feb 6 20:52:30 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 23:50:09 EST References: <202@hou2b.UUCP> <176@pucc-i> <203@hou2b.UUCP> Reply-To: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 9 Some cable TV companies "encode" their signals by reducing the size of the blanking pulse, which a TV uses for synchronization. If the VCR's tuner was more sensitive than the regular TV's tuner, than I suppose it is possible for the VCR to receive Showtime with the reduced pulses, and construct a signal the TV can receive when it remodulates the signal onto channel 3 (or 4). I have never observed this first hand, however. Joel