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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
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Subject: Re: CableVision of Central Florida: the scoop
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 15:41:28 EDT
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> *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***  OK, I will!!!
> 
> As I said in my followup on Saturday, I called CableVision of Central Florida.
> Here is the scoop from there engineer.
> 
> As I had suspected, HBO is a trap type pay channel.  If you don't pay for it,
> they trap out the carrier, so that all you are left with is the high end of
> the video, all of the color information and the sound carrier.
> 
I'm not to sure what you mean by a trap, but if they supply the video info
and more important the sound, won't a sipmle and cheap to build sync
generator give the signal full video. Drop the sync into the blanking
sector and off you go.


**** IF SIMPLE IS SO SIMPLE WHY CAN'T I SPELL IT ****