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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Cable-ready TVs/VCRs
Message-ID: <1900@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 00:55:30 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1900
Posted: Thu Apr 11 00:55:30 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Apr-85 04:07:41 EST
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

We recently got a cable-ready VCR and found it received most but not all
the channels available on our local cable.  (We can still get those three
by presetting the cable box and tuning the VCR to channel 3.)  We didn't
feel shafted or nervous, becasue we got it at a store where we could return
it in up to ten days if we weren't satisfied with it for any reason--
including the fact that it worked perfectly but didn't fit well with the
local cable company.

I'd suggest that anyone buying a cable-ready TV or VCR make sure the store
is willing to extend that courtesy.  (We paid about $40 extra to buy where
we did rather than at a hyper-discount place.  We feel it was worth it.)

--Lee gold