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From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.tv,net.video
Subject: Re: cable ready TV/VCR
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Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 17:47:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  2 17:47:07 1984
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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."