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From: bgo@ptsfc.UUCP (Bud Odekirk)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Recording cable TV
Message-ID: <493@ptsfc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 10:47:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 23 10:47:20 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Dec-85 03:34:20 EST
Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco
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Keywords: A-B switches a waste

There are many devices on the market that that will take the place of
the A-B switches, they look better, are easier to use, and are very easy
to install.

Radio Shack has one that sells for $39.95 (sometimes on sale for $29.95)
that will allow you to do any of the any of the following by just turning 
a switch.

    1. Watch regular TV while recording a scrambled channel.
    2. Watch a scrambled station while recording a regular station.
    3. Watch a scrambled station and record the same.
    4. Play a video game while recording a regular or scrambled stations.
    5. Use a Personal Computer while recording regular or scrambled.

The only thing you can't do is record one scrambled station while watching
another scrambled station, and there is nothing that will allow you to do that
unless you have two unscramblers. 

To install the box you will need a splitter and a few short pieces of cable.
Put the splitter on your incoming cable, add two short pieces of cable, connect
one to "cable" and the other to "antenna" on the back of the box. Everything
else connects to the back of the box. One thing to remember is that the output
from the box goes to the input of the VCR and the input from the box goes 
to the output on the VCR.