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From: rob@genrad.UUCP (Rob Wood)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Cable - Behind the times
Message-ID: <3597@genrad.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Oct-83 08:11:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: genrad.3597
Posted: Sat Oct  8 08:11:14 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Oct-83 19:40:20 EDT
Organization: GenRad, Bolton, Mass.
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I just had my local cable tv installed.  I am four years back from where
I was yesterday.

	1.  I can not watch one station and video-tape another.
	2.  I can not use my video-recorder to change channels when I'm
	    not home.
	3.  I let them take my antennae wire out and put their cable thru
	    the channel under my floor, I should have made them fish it.
	4.  The quality of my basic VHF channels has been cut from crisp
	    clear pictures to dull, snowy, shadowy images.
	5.  The installers work on Saturday but I have to wait till Tuesday
	    for the service people to fix the picture.
	6.  I now have 3 remote units to manipulate, TV, VCR, Cable.
	7.  They put a protector type connector to prevent the cable being
	    moved from their decoder box so that if I want to use my TV's
	    or VCR's cable tuning capability and not watch the premium
	    channels I can not.
Can you give me any technical help on what I can do?
	Rob Wood	(decvax!genrad!rob)