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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Wanted, info on cable/stereo ready TV's
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 13:06:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 13:06:10 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1146@opus.UUCP> atkins@opus.UUCP (Brian Atkins) writes:
>The big questions are: 
>
>	Cable ready or not cable ready, and if so, what kind?

  I have a cable ready TV and subscribe to cable, so this is what I have
to offer:
  There is a big advantage to use a cable ready TV since you won't need the
cable box converter and tune to channel 3 everytime. If you want to watch
channel 29, you just tune your TV to channel 29. That's it. The big plus is
that you can use your own TV remote control instead of paying the cable
company for renting their remote control unit. Also, if you have a VCR, you
can record one cable channel while watching another.
  Now, the big problem is that this doesn't work for scrambled stations, like
HBO, since these have to go thru the cable box to be discrambled. I still can
operate my TV as usual, but when I want to see (or record) HBO, I have to
turn on the cable box and switch to channel 3 on the TV.

  One warning: you have seen cable ready TVs with 40, 50 and over 100 channels.
Well, it does make a difference. My cable TV has only 41 channels. Now, as long
as your local cable doesn't have any cable channel over 41, that's fine.
However, my local cable carrier added to new stations in channels 46 and 47 so
I'm unable to watch them directly with the TV.
  My suggestion would be to buy a cable ready TV with at least 55 channels
(this is the maximum number of stations the cable box converter has anyway).
-- 
    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
    ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa      ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell