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From: rbrink@hubcap.clemson.edu (Rick Brink)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: cable TV and better black boxes
Message-ID: <10837@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 8 Oct 90 18:50:11 GMT
References: <1990Oct4.133730.28246@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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From article <1990Oct4.133730.28246@mlb.semi.harris.com>, by jws@thumper.mlb.semi.harris.com (James W. Swonger):
> 
The only thing missing from this discussion is the politics behind the
selection of boxes, and services.  Many cable companies are running on a
shoe-string equipment budget.  Little or nothing is spent on equipment,
so that the investors can grab a maximum profit.  If any of us were to
start-up one of these companies, things like quality of signal, selection
of services would be a concern.  But cable TV is not the relm of qualified
managment.  It's just a shell game for someone to make money with.  You
can buy better equipment from the back of Radio-Electronics than most 
Cable companies "rent" you for less than 1 years rental.  But try to 
find a company that will give you credit for using your own box.  They
will likely as not, disconnect you for having illegal attachments.

When is "Satellite cable" comming.  I'm pissed that ISDN is lagging so
far behind.  I'm tired of all the censorship.  We loose broadcasts in
our area when a schoolteacher on a sitcom talks about birth control.

Enough bitching, back to sci.electronics