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From: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
Newsgroups: net.video,net.politics
Subject: Re: Satellite Signal Scrambling
Message-ID: <747@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 16:04:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 16:04:47 1986
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Reply-To: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
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... What is a line eater ...
Since I have recently subscribed to this group, this may have been
answered before, but...

A cable company charges each customer for a premium service (eg. HBO)
a fee; the provider (HBO) charges the cable company that same amount, but
only up to a certain number of subscribers (say 3,000) with the excess
being pure profit for the cable company.  (These figures were accurate 
when last I checked.)  Now the question: When a dish owner subscribes
directly they pay the "full" amount regardless of how many dish owners
subscribe;  Why can't there be a dish clearing house (a dish "cable"
company) that pays the fee requested (eg. 3,000 x $13 or whatever) but
charges each dish owner their FAIR SHARE plus a small profit.   I think
the amounts HBO are charging dish owners is ludicrous and exhorbitant
($12.95 for just HBO) when they don't have ANY extra costs expended to 
provide you that service!

References:  from Electronic Engineering Times 3 March 1986 pg 11
   HBO Hotline (800) HBO-DISH
   The Black Box Solution   (a how to build your own descrambler)
     4014 Central Ave.
     Hot Springs, Ark. 71913     (501)321-1845

-- Glenn Tenney 
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