Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: A Question on Cable Converters Message-ID: <4001@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 13:35:01 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.4001 Posted: Wed Aug 15 13:35:01 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Aug-84 02:13:01 EDT References: <8634@watmath.uucp> <900@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 10 In our cable system SHOWTIME is mundane scrambled (you can get it by replacing a jumper in your converter box). PLAYBOY has some more complicated method (all I get is white and black marks on the screen and a bleedle noise in the audio) which probably requires some more complicated decoder. HBO seems to be patched in out in this little box where the cable is distributed to our apartment building. The installer opened it up twiddled the wires inside the distribution panel, I wasn't watching too closely. -Ron