Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utmbvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!utmbvax!mmr From: mmr@utmbvax.UUCP (Mike Rubenstein) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: decoding subscription TV - legality - (nf) Message-ID: <360@utmbvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 21:26:09 EDT Article-I.D.: utmbvax.360 Posted: Tue Aug 14 21:26:09 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Aug-84 00:28:38 EDT References: <21100003@ucbcad.UUCP> trsvax.55100048 <342@houxb.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas Lines: 18 The cable companies I'm familiar with will allow you to use your own channel selector box (or just not use theirs if your TV can pick up all the channels). Note that the channel selector boxes you can get legally do not decode the encrypted channels. I don't think you save all that much by using your own box, but most of the one's I've seen translate to UHF so you can use your remote control and your VCR. Most VCRs cannot record an encrypted signal in such a way that it can be decoded. While I've never actually asked about splitting the signal for use with a VCR, the installer (and the repairman one time when I had a problem) certainly saw my setup to split the signal for the VCR (I made no attempt to hide it). Neither commented or seemed to see anything unusual about it. -- Mike Rubenstein, OACB, UT Medical Branch, Galveston TX 77550