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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: TCI to add basic tier nationwide
Date: 25 Jan 93 04:23:54 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1993Jan22.022329.18381@gagme.chi.il.us> wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer) writes:
<In article <4807@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<>Here in Madison, WI, they use a Pioneer Sine-Wave-Sync-Suppress method.  There
<                                 ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^  
<Pioneer boxes use their own flavor of in-band gated sync supression, 
<not sine-wave.  The only company, to my knowledge, that used the rather
<easy to defeat sine-wave system was Oak Systems and they no longer do so.

Sorry, but these are Pioneer boxes and are indeed Sine-Wave-Sync-Suppress.
Could explain why they can't get them anymore, since they no longer make this
system.  Must have had too many problems.
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From: rsmith@pearl.tufts.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: WANTED: Parts source(s) for universal descrambler CD2240 IC
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:54:42 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

I'm having serious problems locating the CD2240 video sync generator IC for the
Radio Electronics "universal descrambler" kit, and was wondering if anybody
knew where I could buy this part.  I've tried Jameco Electronics, All Elec-
tronics, MCM Electronics, Radio Shack, and a dozen or so stores in the Boston
area, with no luck.  Any help with finding a source for this (mail order or
Boston area) would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

					--Rod Smith
					  RSMITH@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU
From: dcrocker@cisco.com (Dan Crocker)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: A/B Switching on TCI
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:08:23 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

If this is an old and boring question and the answer is in a FAQ, point me
to it.  Otherwise, please help...

For those of you not familiar with TCI, it uses a silly two-cable system where
the channels go from 2-35 (or so) on two different cables.  Then, they
give you either a mechanical switch (free) or a decoder box with a remote
(for ~$9 a month).  I'm trying to figure out what I can do to avoid paying
for the decoder box while still having a completely controlled remote
system.  A friend of mine bought a 4 input, 3 output remote controlled switch 
that works great.  However, he bought it a few years ago and no one seems to 
sell it anymore.  I did find a remote controlled a/b switch which would work 
ok for the TV but I would have to split the cables and get another switch for 
the VCR.

After all that, here are my questions:

1. Anyone seen a remote controlled switch for sale recently?
   (at least 2 inputs and 2 outputs)

2. Is there a box which converts the VHF channels 2-35 to something higher
   so that I could get rid of the a/b switching altogether?  I have heard of
   some devices which convert VHF to UHF but there seem to be some problems
   with doing this since the VHF channels are not in a continuous frequency
   range (I'm definately fishing here)?


3. Any other brilliant ideas as to how to this?


Thanks,
Dan
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: men@colorado.edu (Matthew Newman)
Subject: TCI is not showing free previews of HBO and Cinemax
Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado
Date: 25 Jan 93 09:59:15
Comments: Hyperbole mail buttons accepted, v3.06.

The weasels at TCI have struck again.  Although HBO is having a free 
preview (yesterday and today) and Cinemax is having one tomorrow
through Friday, our local cable service is not showing it.  Their
reason?  the new cable act, which mandates that all subscribers be
given a 30 day notice before receiving any R-rated material.  Of
course, it's not as though this law is a surprise (seeing how
vigorously they fought it), nor is the preview a surprise (it was 
listed in the January cable guide TCI sent out last month).  This
seems to me to be a cheap attempt on their part to make some
subscribers angry about the cable act.

Matt Newman
men@noaacrd.colorado.edu
Organization: University Libraries - Technical Service, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv,rec.arts.tv
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:11:46 -0500 
From: Andrew Franklin Wheeler <aw1h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Can't remember 80's TV show name. Please help!
	<1993Jan21.212112.1955@netcom.com>
Distribution: usa

The name of the show was "Mr. Sunshine," and the actor's name was
Jeffrey Tambor.
He now plays "Hey-There" Hank Kingsley on "The Larry Sanders Show' (HBO).

-andy.
Organization: Office of the Dean - CFA, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv,rec.arts.tv
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:36:48 -0500 
From: Liz Fox <lf01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Can't remember 80's TV show name. Please help!
	<1993Jan20.190244.20594@netcom.com>

On 20-Jan-93 in Re: Can't remember 80's TV ..
user David W Hatunen@netcom.c writes:
>>> >>>
>>> >>  i also remember ABC on friday nigth.
>>> >-
>>> >     -Although i can't remember the guy either, the show was called
>>> >     "Mr. Sunshine" and the bald guy was the "Producer" on Max 
>>> >     Headroom just before Sunshine.... 
>>> He was also Robert Urich's character's friend on the short-lived
>>> sit-com "American Dreamer".
>>
>You may be thinking of James Franciscus as "Mr Novak".
> 
>DAve Hatunen  hatunen@netcom.com
> 
I thought of James Franciscus too - but that was "Longstreet" - he
played a blind detective/PI named "Longstreet" and had  beautiful
seeing-eye dog.  I loved that show - but now I realise that you were
talking about an '80s show and Longstreet was in the '60s...(geez, I
feel old!)

-Liz Fox
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: mandrews@portal.hq.videocart.com (Mike Andrews)
Subject: Re: VCR+
Organization: VideOcart Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:31:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.223417.658@hnrc.tufts.edu> jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal) writes:
>In article <35180@samsung.samsung.com>, lavoie@schizo.samsung.com (Paul Lavoie) writes:
>> 
>> 
>>    A while back there was some discussion regarding VCR+ codes. If I remember
>>    correctly someone had developed some code to generate the codes. If so, 
>>    could someone point me toward that code?. A dos program would be great, it
>>    not, unix src.
>
>It looks like the discussion is heating up on rec.video.

And the source code is in FORTRAN, not exactly common Unix (or *anything*) 
compatible code.

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From: dchurch@nmt.edu (Dan Church)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Cable Converter Bypass Box?
Date: 24 Jan 93 06:27:29 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: New Mexico Tech




Recently I discovered a nice little gizmo in my latest Damark
catalog.  It was about $100 and is used to enable VCRs to be
able to bypass cable boxes in order to be able to tune to 
different channels via the vcr, instead of via the cable box.
This also allows picture in picture functions....
Has anyone heard of these before, and if so, are they reliable
things?  Also, is that a good price for something like that?

Dan Church
dchurch@jupiter.nmt.edu

 
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From: roberts@triton.unm.edu (Robert Smathers)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: First Choice getting new name, new look
Date: 24 Jan 1993 08:51:21 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
NNTP-Posting-Host: triton.unm.edu

In article <1993Jan24.014259.19582@freenet.carleton.ca> aa422@Freenet.carleton.ca (Rene Kahle) writes:

>"On February 1, 9pm (ET), Canada's premier pay television network will
>change its name.  And celebrate its evolution through the last ten years
>of great movies with a new look and a new sound too..."
>
>The new name will be announced on February 1 at 9pm Eastern.

If I remember right, First Choice will be renamed The Movie Network.

Robert
roberts@triton.unm.edu
From: dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
Subject: Re: TCI is not showing free previews of HBO and Cinemax
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 26 Jan 93 11:47:51 GMT


I've got Dimension Cable in Irvine, CA and all day Sunday and Monday
they've been unscrambling and rescrambling HBO.  Very irritating since
I missed 2 or 3 movies I wanted to see.

Douglas Krause                      One yuppie can ruin your whole day.
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Welcome to Irvine:  Yuppieland USA  BITNET: DJKrause@uci.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: oneill@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill)
Subject: Re: Cable Converter Bypass Box?
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:42:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.100705.1@pearl.tufts.edu> rsmith@pearl.tufts.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.062729.3544@nmt.edu>, dchurch@nmt.edu (Dan Church) writes:
>> 
>> Recently I discovered a nice little gizmo in my latest Damark
>> catalog.  It was about $100 and is used to enable VCRs to be
>> able to bypass cable boxes in order to be able to tune to 
>> different channels via the vcr, instead of via the cable box.
>> This also allows picture in picture functions....
>> Has anyone heard of these before, and if so, are they reliable
>> things?  Also, is that a good price for something like that?
>> 
>> Dan Church
>> dchurch@jupiter.nmt.edu
>
>Unless this gizmo does a lot more than you've indicated, $100 is a rip-off
>price.  You can get various video switching systems from Radio Shack for a
>lot less, and they'll do the same thing (possibly in combination with a
>splitter).
>

The capability is already built in to every VCR, commonly called the ANT/VCR
switch. If you hook up your VCR and cable box as follows -

	
	Feed --->------| VCR |---->----|Cable Box|---->----| TV |

Then, when the ANT/VCR switch is in the ANT position, you tune stations from
your cable box for what you wish to view on yout TV (tuned to Ch. 3 or 4 or
2, depending on box). Your VCR's tuner works independently, and can tune to
a different station to tape it. When in the VCR position, your VCR's tuner
controls what is watched on TV, and the cable box must be on channel 2 or 3
or 4. This is how you would watch a tape.

Drawbacks: You need a cable-ready VCR to pick up cable channels beyond 13.
Most VCRs are cable ready. However, many cable companies scramble most of
their signals, so the VCR would be unable to tape them.

To add in Picture-in-Picture capability (assuming it is in the TV), hook the
Video Output of the VCR to the Video Input of the TV. The Video Output of
the VCR always gives the VCR's tuner/tape image, regardless of the ANT/VCR
switch.

=======================================================================
Brian O'Neill - Systems Manager, Computer Science 	 (508) 934-3645
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Internet: oneill@ulowell.edu		Moderator, comp.binaries.ibm.pc
From: al@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Alan Peterman)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: TCI to add basic tier nationwide
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:02:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: qiclab.1993Jan21.200221.4480
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.

In article <2438@hsdndev.UUCP> nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder) writes:
>
>I was watching our local access channel's coverage of the town's selectemen
>meeting last night. The general manager of Cablevision of Brookline came
>explained the rate hikes for 1993 which will go into effect on March 1st.
>He said the programming costs had increased for this particular Cablevision
>system by 9% in 1992 but they felt it was in their best interest to pass
>these costs to the subscribers at only 3.6%. As a result our Basic, which
>is called Metro here in Boston/Brookline, will be going up from $18.75
>to $20.45. The expanded Basic which is called Family Package(includes
>remote control,access to ordering PPV and adding premium channels) will
>go up from $25.95 to $27.95. 

If I read this right the increases are certainly NOWHERE NEAR 3.6%!!

$18.75-$20.75   -  10.6%
$25.95-$27.95   -  7.7%

Might want to take these figures to the cable regulatory body, and let them
make the cable company really implement a 3.6% increase...which would be
to $19.48 and $26.96.


-- 
Alan L. Peterman                                 (503)-684-1984 hm & work
                       al@qiclab.scn.rain.com
It's odd how as I get older, the days are longer, but the years are shorter!
From: jughead@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: WILL PAY BIG $$$$$$ FRO CHANNEL 2 -PAY TV DECODERS-
Date: 24 Jan 93 23:03:03 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

WILL PAY GOOD BUCK$ AND ORDER AT LEAST 35 PAY-TV DECODERS

35 - 55 Pay Tv Decoders are needed in Nova Scotia Canada NOW!

Instead of the output being Channel 3 (your Tv station channel)
	THEY MUST BE CHANNEL 2 .......Things are Screwed up in Canada.

Willing to pay $100.00 (+) for each unit with a *3* guarenteed orders of

10 per mailing.........

Steve Brown.....

send all replys A.S.A.P.


Impatiently waiting..........................................................

Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: "kevin mandoske" <kevin.mandoske@execnet.com>
Subject: electronic schedule listi
Reply-To: "kevin mandoske" <kevin.mandoske@execnet.com>
Organization: Executive Networks Information
Distribution: rec
Date: 21 Jan 93 02:57:44 EST

D >Does any one know of a service that provides a electronic listing of t
D >schedules for cable channels?
D >
D >I would use this for input to a program that would alert me to any mov
D >or program that I have flag that I would like to see.
D >
D >If there is not a service like this now, it would make a good project 
D >a Media Arts department.

PEG TV has a subscription program along the lines your talking about if 
you are near one of the major cities they service.  The program is 
available in Compuserve if your a member.  Other then that I don't know 
where else it's available.

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Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: celestin@netcom.com (Paul Celestin)
Subject: Richmond, California Cable (Bay Cablevision?)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:17:12 GMT

Does anyone have any experience good or bad with the cable company
that provides service in the Richmond California area. I believe
the name of the company is Bay Cablevision. I am interested in
beginning cable service, but would like some unbiased opinions as
to the quality of the company and the service it provides. Also,
what, if any methods of scrambling do they use on their premium
stations? I don't want to give up use of my cable-ready set in lieu
of one of those horrific converter boxes.

Thanks in advance for any feedback!
-- 
Paul Celestin <celestin@netcom.com>               Insert Disclaimer Here
Celestin Company    "Home of the Unusual" - ask for our free e-catalogue
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
Subject: Re: TCI is not showing free previews of HBO and Cinemax
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:07:37 GMT

Our slimebag cable company (Prime of Chicago) also cancelled the
previews.  When I called to inquire/complain, the answer-drone said
that their techs said it was a technical problem.  Dig that!  They had
a technical problem that prohibited them from turning their encoders
off!

Yeah right!

This cable bill answer makes perfect sense.  They are fighting back in
every way they can.  What can be done?  Other than unsubscribing and 
going back under the mercy ota tv?

This really sucks, I look foreward to those previews to tape..oops
I mean ... watch some movies. 

Bill
From: long-morrow@cs.yale.edu (H Morrow Long)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: TCI is not showing free previews of HBO and Cinemax
Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:47:42 -0500
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sparky.cf.cs.yale.edu


In article <2455@hsdndev.UUCP>, nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder) writes:
|> In article <MEN.93Jan25095915@bjerknes.colorado.edu> men@colorado.edu (Matthew Newman) writes:
|> 
|> >The weasels at TCI have struck again.  Although HBO is having a free 
|> >preview (yesterday and today) and Cinemax is having one tomorrow
|> >through Friday, our local cable service is not showing it.  Their
|> >reason?  the new cable act, which mandates that all subscribers be
|> >given a 30 day notice before receiving any R-rated material.  Of
|> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> 
|> Absolutely correct,Matt. That's part of the Cable Bill which will have
|> an impact on ALL major premium service free previews. I wasn't aware of
|> that when I posted HBO dates in this group about a month ago. I found
|> out about it by reading one of the trade publications last week and to
|> no one's surprirse our local Cablevision system did not carry
|> this weekend's preview. We got our regular nightly dose of Mother Angelica on
|> EWTN(she shares the preview channel) as usual.
|> k
|> >course, it's not as though this law is a surprise (seeing how
|> >vigorously they fought it), nor is the preview a surprise (it was 
|> >listed in the January cable guide TCI sent out last month).  This
|> >seems to me to be a cheap attempt on their part to make some
|> >subscribers angry about the cable act.

Hmmm.. Our cable franchise (Storer Cable of Southwestern CT - covers
the South Central Connecticut city of New Haven, and towns Hamden &
West Haven) showed the HBO 2 day free preview in the clear.

They did probably advertise the p
From: flounder@cwis.unomaha.edu (Mark E. White)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: HELP! Scientific Atlanta 8580-338 03 cable tuner
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:05:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha


The 8580 are adressible boxes.  What that means is that you need to let the 
cable company put that box on the account.  Most cable comapanies will put
the box in the system but will not repair or replace them.  As far as the 
buttons go.  The buy button is for systems where pay-per-view can be order
by pressing that button, bad idea.  The time should be able to be put on
by turning the converter off and pressing the 'sel' button.  Also to see
if you are recieving a signal turn the converter off and press the 'prg'
button.  dC means that the signal is getting to the box, nd means there is
no signal, and nc means it has timed out, F8 means it failed a legal 
terminal test.  Also there is a timer feature on those boxes to acess that 
you need to turn on converter and hit the 'sel' button that will bring up
a seires of things on your box.  To program recall turn on the box hit the 
'prg button and type in the channels to end hit the rcl button on the remote.
I hope I have helped you in your quest to figure out the 8580.

I am the flounder
 koko kacho
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: WANTED: TV-TUNER - Digital, Video-out, Cable-ready
Date: 21 Jan 93 04:40:05 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1993Jan19.193533.7103@leland.Stanford.EDU> franke@leland.Stanford.EDU (Norman Franke) writes:
<
<On a related note, does anyone know of a tuner to decode cable TV into
<composite (s-video preferably) and stereo line out?

A S-VHS VCR.
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Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: County is going after Cablevision
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:48:42 GMT

Orlando, Florida is in Orange county.

Orange Cablevision, a division of Time Warner is the major
supplier of cable in this area.

They are also acquiring another local cable company, in an area
where 2 companies meant lower prices.

We have a pro basketball team called the Orlando Magic.
Sunshine network has the rights to that and had a contract with
Orange Cablevision for the games.

Well there were money disputes and Orange Cablevision has not
been carrying the Magic games for the past 2 weeks.

All the TV commentators are talking about it, the talk shows
are talking about it, long newspaper articles about it, and so
on.

In general the local sports population is mightly POed at
Cablevision.

And Orange county is the one who approved the franchise for
Orange Cablevision.

So the Orange County commission is looking into doing something
about this.  Nothing so mundane as threatening to pull their
franchise.

The county is seriously considering getting into the cable tv
business itself.   This would actually be 'wireless cable'.
The county has 6 radio towers ready to go right now, and 2 more
in the next couple of months.   

County/city ownership of cable has occured quite often in small
counties and rural areas.   One commission commented (not a
direct quote but paraphrased) just because it's never been done
in a county this large doesn't mean it can't be done.

This is probably one of the biggest threats that any cable
company has ever had.    It's one thing to threaten to yank a
franchise - because of the hardware invested and pole rights,
etc, you don't do something like that overnight.

But to go in direct competion with the cable, by as early as
June is waving a serious stick at them.

I have seen various articles over the years about poor cable
service, but to bring all the media and the county down on the
cable system as the same time is probably something the cable
company is going to regret for a long time.  They may wind up
losing millions while trying to save thousands in game rights.

This may be one time where the consumer wins.

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org  bill@bilver.uucp
                - ..!{peora|tous|tarpit}!bilver!bill
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From: tominatr@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv,rec.video
Subject: Descrambler wanted!  (Channel 2 output)
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:51:59 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

I'm looking for a place that I could call toll-free (I live in Canada)
to get a descrambler.  I've seen ads in the back of video magazines but
none of them will convert their descramblers from channel 3 output to
channel 2 ouput (Canada has channel 2 output).

Any info appreciated...

        - Tom N.

BTW, if you have a channel 2 output descrambler you would sell, let me know.


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