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From: brown@nic_vax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Cable-ready TVs/VCRs
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 21:38:49 EST
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> 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

You didn't say if the three channels that you couldn't receive were pay
channels or not.  If they were pay channels that require a converter,
there isn't a cable ready TV or VCR that will receive them.  The only time
you will get a pay channel on a cable ready piece of equipment is if that
channel isn't scrambled (yep, it is still done that way in places).

Most of the cable ready TVs and VCRs today will receive more channels than
cable companys even use.  I oughta know as I have a JVC TV, JVC VHS Hi-Fi
VCR and a SONY TV that are all cable ready and receive more than is available.
My cable company uses channels 2 thru 35 (2-6, A-I, 7-13 and J-W) and
channel A-1.  For your reference channels A-5 thru A-3 is the FM band.
Channel A-2 is used for the Pay Service Decoder addressing carrier.

Please tell us what the three channels are before blaming a piece of equipment.

Mr. Video