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From: psfales@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: remote cable cntrls
Message-ID: <980@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 May 89 22:27:30 GMT
References: <1893@ektools.UUCP> <706@xroads.UUCP> <130@swituc.UUCP>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <130@swituc.UUCP>, pmb@swituc.UUCP (Pat Berry) writes:
> In article <706@xroads.UUCP>, wiz@xroads.UUCP (Mike Carter) writes:
> > You should concentrate on controlling the volume at your SET rather than at
> > the cable box. 
> 
> Gee, someone should tell our cable company... all their converter boxes
> have remote volume adjust.

My cable box had this feature, fortunately it could be disabled by a
switch.  It works by turning the volume on the
set WAY up, as high as you would ever want to listen to it, then
artificially reducing the level of the sound signal sent by the
decoder box.  The problem was the high volume setting on the TV
set was introducing an inordinate amount of 60Hz hum, when the
volume was set at typical listening levels. 

Eventually, I just bought a TV with remote volume control. :-)

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