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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: CableVision of Central Florida: the scoop
Message-ID: <876@peora.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-May-85 08:24:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 08:24:00 1985
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> You know, a simple phone call to your cable company would have
> answered all of these questions a long time ago.

Except that, as the tape you listened to suggested, they are having an all-
out war on theft-of-service perpetrators, and I didn't want them to get the
idea I was trying to figure out how to beat their scrambling. (You should
see the newspaper ads... a guilty-looking man holding a screwdriver and a
cable while his wife and daughter look in a shocked manner off-camera at
someone has just caught him red-handed stealing cable service.)

Well, I will believe you, I guess, except for a few puzzling details.  It's
Cinemax that uses a different scrambling method from the others; there is
a special switch in the tuner box that turns on only for cinemax.  Also, my
tuner box is, from what you said, one of the non-addressable ones; they give
you the choice here of which you want, and the new addressable ones are
MUCH more expensive.  This still doesn't explain how they enable and disable
the channels without coming into the house for the non-addressable devices;
however, I guess it is in there somewhere.

Ironically, all this has diverged far from my original comment, which was
simply that here in Orlando you can indeed get all the pay channels, except
Cinemax, on a cable-ready TV; which was what the original poster I responded
to asked (I think).  Soon I will be getting a cable-ready TV myself, and
since I have Cinemax, I will get to see first hand how they handle that.
-- 
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