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From: dennett@acadia.Kodak.COM (Charlie Dennett)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Cable Competition at Last!
Keywords: Direct Broadcast Coming Soon
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.140848.24260@kodak.kodak.com>
Date: 25 Jan 91 14:08:48 GMT
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In article <620@wybbs.mi.org>, ken@wybbs.mi.org (Ken) writes:
|> This weeks Engineering times has an article on something I have been
|> waiting for a long time: Competition for the cable companies!!!
|>  
|> Starting this summer, a company called Sky Pix (Kent, WA) will be
|> selling a direct broadcast dish system for the home. Dishes have
|> been around for a long time, but check out these details:
|>
|>    o Videotape inhibit circuit will prevent home taping unless premium
|>      charge is paid.
|>  

This may not be the correct newsgroup for this question but I'll 
ask anyways. How does this videotape inhibit work.  It would seem
to me that the signal can "tell" that it is bing recorded.  How
can it do this?  Is there some component of the signal that is
missing that is required by the recorder and not the TV?

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