Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: Access to Cable Company's Equipment Message-ID: Date: 30 Jan 91 00:02:51 GMT References: <43097@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <8261@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: kerchen@fuji.ucdavis.edu's message of 29 Jan 91 21:14:34 GMT In article <8261@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> kerchen@fuji.ucdavis.edu (Paul Kerchen) writes: In article <43097@nigel.ee.udel.edu> BYRNE@muppet.dnet.ge.com writes: > > I may be way out in left field here, but didn't I read somewhere that >the cable companies must allow public access to there equipment (according to >the FCC?)? Thanks. > Yes, but anything you produce with their equipment must 1) be for non-profit uses, and 2) aired on the local cable station. Actually, it doesn`t *have* to be aired, but the point is that public access television is not meant for commercial or private use. Further, you may find that they require you to take a course (possibly free) in the use of their equipment. Many of them have Amiga's for video work (at least, that's what I hear). The cable company I worked with (Newark, CA) did lessons, and had an 2000HD. I prepared animated sequences at home, then played them back on that machine, and recorded them on the stations 3/4" gear for our shows.