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From: mcw@wet.UUCP (Martin Warnett)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Cable Remote Frequencies
Message-ID: <645@wet.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 89 08:44:31 GMT
References: <15939@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <850@lopez.UUCP>
Reply-To: mcw@wet.UUCP (Martin Warnett)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <850@lopez.UUCP> flash@lopez.UUCP (Gary Bourgois) writes:
>sean@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Sean P. Nolan) writes:
>
>>Hey there...
>
>[wants to build a TV remote control and save CATV charges]
>
There is a potential problem here, some cable boxes will only accept
remote control signals if told to do so by the cable company computer.
It just the same way that it will only decode scrambled signals you
have paid for, it will only honor the remote control signals is you
have paid for the remote. My Zenith box works that way.



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