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From: john@datacube.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Cable and scrambling
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Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 19:49:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 17 19:49:00 1985
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Nf-From: datacube!john    Dec 17 19:49:00 1985


You should note that the cable companies consider your VCR competition
against their service. You going out and renting a movie and playing
it on your VCR is direct competition against their service. There are
many other ways your VCR competes, either legally or illegally, against
their service. Remember cable services have been around a lot longer
than reasonably priced VCRs. To cable companies VCRs are the young 
upstart in the industry, and they feel threatned. After all VCRs are
capable of giving you much more flexible programming service than 
a cable company, except for some things like news.

This may go a small way twards explaining why your cable company is 
not jumping up and down trying to make the remotes for all your video 
goodies work like they should. 

The VCR and television manufactures are puting the AB switches, refered 
to in many of the other responses to your note, into their products, of
course controlable from the remote.

				Happy Viewing
				John Bloomfield

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