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From: dob@ihmax.UUCP (dan o'brien)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: No more freebie satellite viewing
Message-ID: <6@ihmax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 12:36:51 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 19 12:36:51 1986
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> All Things Considered (Jan. 15) reported that HBO and Cinemax are
> about to encrypt their satellite transmissions ...
> 
> Private individuals who want to view HBO and/or Cinemax must
> purchase a decryptor for about $300, then pay a monthly
> fee to the service provider.  The fee is comparable to what
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^
> a cable viewer would pay.

Hardly comparable from my point of view.  My local cable charges $7.00 a 
month for HBO on top of the basic cable service (my total bill is $17.90).  
I saw on network news that HBO wants $13.00 a month!  Imagine what this 
trend is going to do to all those dish owners.  $13.00 here, $12.00 there, 
and so on.  There goes all that money they hoped to save over the cost of 
cable :-( And what about those folks whose only TV reception is satellite 
based?!?!  

Oh well, as Robert Heinlein once wrote: TANSTAAFL.
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			Daniel M. O'Brien (ihnp4!ihmax!dob)
			AT&T Bell Laboratories
			IH 4A-257, x 4782
			Naperville-Wheaton Road
			Naperville, IL 60566