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From: mikey@trsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Smut - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 23:13:31 EST
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trsvax!mikey    Nov  1 16:02:00 1983

re: Cable vs. Broadcast adult video

In the Ft. Worth area the adultr films on the cable are really hard 'R'
rated.  It seems that they can't or won't show true 'X' rated films.  

The local MDS (Microwave) system recently merged with ON TV after the local
TV station started censuring the movies that they broadcast, even though
they were scrambled.

Now that they are on microwave, they still show only heavy 'R' versions of
'X' rated films.  Sometimes the editing makes the movie very choppy and the
sound track may not match the video, but who listens???

Before the MDS merged, they used to show HEAVY 'X-RATED' movies, uncut,
unedited, un anything.  Since the merger, the 'X' movies are only shown
a couple nights a week and after midnight.  This is obviously a break from 
what ON TV is broadcasting.

What it comes down to is probably what the local standards will bear on private
channels or cable.  On anything broadcast, even scrambled, there seems to be
censorship.  MDS is not on a broadcast channel (2300 mhz) so they seem to be
exempt.  Also, anything with nationwide distribution by sattelite probably
is tame to satisfy distribution system requirements and local standards.

All this is conjecture based on experience and friends around the country, but
it seems to explain things