HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: TCI to add basic tier nationwide
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:03:50 GMT
Organization: HMS

In article <1993Jan20.142929.647@hnrc.tufts.edu> jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal) writes:
>In article <2438@hsdndev.UUCP>, nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder) writes:
>
>>> channels included would be broadcast and PEG only...no word on whether
>
>Sorry.  For the technologically challenged among us, what's PEG?

Public,Educational,Goverment : your local PBS affiliate,C-SPAN,The
Learning Channel,your local access channel,your local municipal channel,etc..,
Mind Extension University might be included in that too...

Regards,

-Mark
From: jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: VCR+
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:28:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University

In article <1993Jan26.102213.665@hnrc.tufts.edu>, I wrote:
> 
> The real questions are:  Has anyone compiled it and does it work?
> 

I decided to answer my own questions.  I compiled it.  It works (at least for
the starting times and durations provided).

Thank you fellow FORTRAN programmer whoever you are.
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: rll@frieda.mitre.org (Roberto L. Landrau)
Subject: Discramblers
Organization: Research Computer Facility, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:12:23 GMT


Please pardon me if this is a FAQ.  I just discovered this newsgroup.

I have seen commercial discramblers for sale on the back of Popular
Science, Radio Electronics, and other magazines.

Do these products work as advertised?

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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: TCI to add basic tier nationwide
Date: 21 Jan 93 04:45:43 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <C14qL5.KtK@world.std.com> fybush@world.std.com (Scott D Fybush) writes:
<My concern was unwarranted.  In a conversation with my local TCI
<system manager, he told me the basic tier would be implemented with
<traps, not with scrambling.  I'm not quite clear on how they'll
<let channels 2-6 (54-88 MHz) and channels 7-13 (174-216 MHz) through
<while trapping channels "14" through "22" (120-174 MHz) and 
<channels "23" and up (216 MHz +), but presumably it's their problem
<and not mine.

You notch out 2-6 and 7-13, which also means you pass 14-22 and 23->.

<As for MTS stereo on cable channels...they're considering it.  
<Apparently another option under consideration is feeding the stereo
<sound on spare DMX channels, but I raised the concern that it would
<leave me unable to tape stereo broadcasts on my hifi VCR (switching
<to line audio inputs to tape the DMX audio would cut off the video
<from the tuner, after all).  The system manager said he hadn't
<thought of that and he'd take it under advisement.

What, your VCR doesn't have a simulcast switch position?

In any event, even with the simulcast position, you could only tape one
channel, the main reason for MTS is so that you can switch channels.
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From: mutrh@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Todd R. Haverstock)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Universal Descrambler fix complilation?
Date: 23 Jan 1993 12:54:47 -0600
Organization: Educational Computing Network
NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.ecn.bgu.edu

Is there a compilation of fixes for the universal descambler?  I dug out a
copy of the May 90 R.E. and was contemplating building it, but I see from my
reading here, there are lots of problems with it.  Any help appreciated.

Todd R. Haverstock
mutrh@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
mutrh@ecnuxa.bitnet

Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: gc3@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (George Cifrancis)
Subject: Gymnast Kim Zmeskal videos
Summary:  Looking for Kim Zmeskal videos
Keywords: Kim Zmeskal video gymnastics
Organization: Homebrew Virtual Reality Labs
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:25:19 GMT

Hello,

I am looking for any videos about American Gymnast Kim Zmeskal.
Specifically, her appearance on Arsenio Hall or any other interview
shows or specials that featured her.  Also any gymnastic events like
the 91 and 92 World Gymastic comptitions.  Please send me mail
directly if anyone has any I can buy a copy from or trade or whatever.

Thanks

George Cifrancis
gc3@jcnpc.cmhnet.org
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
Subject: Re: TCI to add basic tier nationwide
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:23:29 GMT

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.
From: jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: VCR+
Date: 24 Jan 93 03:34:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University

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.
From: troyer@nynexst.com (Tom Royer)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Universal Descrambler fix question (Marc Levy pls read)
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:23:15 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: NYNEX Science & Technology Center
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.55.2 of Tue Mar 20 1990 on oberon (berkeley-unix)

I tried Marc Levy's recently posted fix for inverting the chroma signal,
and it seemed to work fine for a little while, but then everything went
black and white.  I think I blew the gate in the 74C00.  Does that sound
possible?  I used 4.9K instead of 5.1K before the inverting circuit.
Marc, you mentioned that this fix works like an inverting op-amp.  Would
a 741 wired as a unity-gain inverter work here (would it work better?).
I don't know much at all about analog electronics, but I'm looking at
pg.12 of Forrest Mims' "Engineer's Mini-Notebook" for Op Amp IC Circuits
(available for $1.50 at Radio shack).  This looks like this would do the
trick.  Is any amplification needed/harmful/helpful?  What does this
chroma signal "look" like - does it go negative?  Maybe someday soon I
can pick up a second-hand oscilloscope...

BTW, I can't seem to email you at mxl@cbnewsg.cb.att.com - just bounces.

-Tom Royer
 troyer@nynexst.com
From: ericd@synoptics.com (Eric Davis)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: TCI is not showing free previews of HBO
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:55:09 GMT
Reply-To: ericd@synoptics.com
Organization: SynOptics Communications, Santa Clara CA

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
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I have TCI, and..

We got em both in Santa Cruz County, CA... 

Strange.....

Eric

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Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: alh@cypress.com (Andy Hawkins)
Subject: Universal Descrambler use w/ composite video?
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Southeast Design Center
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:09:51 GMT


I have not been able to locate a copy of the R.E. article
about the Universal Descrambler YET!  I do have a question
for the net though.  I assume the Universal Descrambler takes
as its input an RF signal, ch 2 or ch 3, and the output is also
an RF signal???
 Can the unit be modified to accept composite video as the input?
what about the output, can it be modified for composite out as well?

many thanks
andy
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From: st10t@Rosie.UH.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Chips and Dips
Date: 22 Jan 1993 03:23:10 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Reply-To: st10t@Rosie.UH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: rosie.uh.edu

	About a week ago they installed cable into our rooms,
and I thought to myself "hey" for informational purposes 
maybe we could find a way to defeat the desynced channels
which they otherwise they want something like $20 a month for.
So being ever resourceful, scanned through all the usenet 
and found this group and references to the Universal Descrambler.
And so with a quick trip to the library, I got a copy. They give
references to places which sell parts kits but what I would like
to know is, where would be the cheapest/best place to get the
IC chips. Mail order is fine of course. Also someone mentioned
"bugs" in the design and any information to this would also
be appreciated. I found the color inverter that someone added
but nothing else.

	Thanks a lot,
	Avi
	Of course this is just to see how everything works.
	(life universe...)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: aa422@Freenet.carleton.ca (Rene Kahle)
Subject: First Choice getting new name, new look
Reply-To: aa422@Freenet.carleton.ca (Rene Kahle)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:42:59 GMT


This will be of particular interest to any Canadians reading this newsgroup...

"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 above announcement appears on the front cover of the February
issue of Feature Magazine, Canada's pay-TV magazine.

The new name will be announced on February 1 at 9pm Eastern.

But I'm curious to know what they mean by "a new sound".  Oh well,
I guess we'll just have to wait to find out.
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From: rose@bucknell.edu (philip rose `94)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: Universal Descrambler fix complilation?
Date: 23 Jan 1993 21:52:58 GMT
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: denebola.cs.bucknell.edu

In article <1js49nINN3ob@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, mutrh@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Todd R. Haverstock) writes:
|> Is there a compilation of fixes for the universal descambler?  I dug out a
|> copy of the May 90 R.E. and was contemplating building it, but I see from my
|> reading here, there are lots of problems with it.  Any help appreciated.
|> 

There are some corrections that were published by Radio Electronics.
I think it was the June 1990 issue.  Also, someone recently posted a
solution to a color burst phase problem that exists on some cable
systems.  A copy of this solution follows.  These are the only problems
that I know of.

=========================================================

From: mxl@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (marc.a.levy)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Universal Descrambler FIX! (YAY!)
Date: 18 Jan 93 18:52:24 GMT
Organization: AT&T

Well, No one answered my question on the effect of color burst
phase on the video, so I tried it....

For those of us who have cable co's that want to make life
difficult, and screw up the color.........

(I have hard many complaints that "The lockup is correct, but
the colors are wrong... The faces are green..." Here is a
little fix I came up with last week.

Lift pin's 12, 13, and 11 on IC4. (Desolder it, or cut the
pins close to the board and bend them up)

Lift R45 on the side that connects to L4 and C41.

put a 5.1K resistor from L4/C41 to IC4 Pin 12 AND Pin 13.

Connect a 10K risistor from pin 14 (+5V) to Pin 13/14

Connect a 10K risistor from Pin 7 (GND) to Pin 13/14

Connect a 10K risistor from Pin 11 to Pin 13/14 (Feedback)

Connect a .1uf ceramic cap from Pin 11 IC 4 to the lifted lead
of R45.


The above only needs to be added on some cable systems, where
the color burst is inverted with respect to video, so if your
project works, this fix will break it!

I an now trying to find out if I can use the spare MUX to make
this feature switchable.


I have also found that the white streaks that people have been
complaining about can be removed by ajusting R2 and R9, but
the picture itself gets a but dark.... I think this can be
fixed with a little work to the output amplifiers (Q5 and Q6).

I dont have alot of time to spend on this, so if someone else
wants to take over from here, I would appriciate it..

Also, Could someone re-post the "Technical Help" number.

Thanks..

Disclaimer:  The information above is related to the May 1990
issue of Radio Electronics article on the Universal
Descrambler.  This project, and any information posted about
this project is to be used for educational purposes only!
(And, I must say, I have learned alot from it!)

Marc


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From: dseaman@oread.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: VCR+
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:43:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: oread.1993Jan26.184312.1
 <C1FwC8.1Aq@portal.hq.videocart.com> <1993Jan26.102213.665@hnrc.tufts.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Serces

> 
> The real questions are:  Has anyone compiled it and does it work?
> 
> I remember . . . APL!

I compiled the program and it runs just fine. My compiler didn't like
a couple of the characters in the "format" statements, but it was no
big deal. I don't even know fortran (currently taking a class though),
and I got it to compile. The only thing the author didn't explicitly
state, is that you have to compute a "huge" table to make the encoder
work. 

he provides you with a chart to fill out, so it's not that hard.
Basically your use his decoder to find 170 (or so) table values. You
do this by entering VCR+ codes from the newpaper and then writing down
the output from the decoder. Very simple, just time consuming.

The executable is about 68K, so it is not practical to uuencode it.

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Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: macleosd@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Scott Donald Macleod)
Subject: Universal Descrambler (Auto Lock ???)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:17:27 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.

I seem to recall reading a post a few days back in which someone was
looking for all the fixes for the Universal Descrambler, and I think
they mentioned an "autolock" fix. Does such a thing exist? If it does, I
would greatly appreciate someone sending me the info.

    Thanks,
     Scott MacLeod
     (macleosd@newton.ccs.tuns.ca)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: paula@koufax.cv.hp.com (Paul Andresen)
Subject: Re: TCI is not showing free previews of HBO and Cinemax
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:47:46 GMT

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
|> 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.

Welcome to the world of typical TCI "service". The behavior of cable outfits 
like TCI is precisely why the cable industry deserved to be re-regulated.
It is also typical of TCI to play spoiled brat and use the cable act as an
excuse to put it to their customers at every opportunity.

"Hi. we're TCI. We don't care. We don't have to"
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Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: aa422@Freenet.carleton.ca (Rene Kahle)
Subject: Re: First Choice getting new name, new look
Reply-To: aa422@Freenet.carleton.ca (Rene Kahle)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:29:40 GMT


In a previous article, roberts@triton.unm.edu (Robert Smathers) says:

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

Really?  That's interesting, considering that, as of February 1st, they
are planning to show more series (i.e. less movies).

Anyway, thanks for the info.

TTYL
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: TCI to add basic tier nationwide
Date: 21 Jan 93 04:36:05 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <C12z9G.2t7@world.std.com> fybush@world.std.com (Scott D Fybush) writes:
<{Broadcasting} magazine reports today (Jan. 18) that TCI plans to begin
<selling a $10/month or so basic tier nationwide in February.  The
<channels included would be broadcast and PEG only...no word on whether
<even C-SPAN would be included.
<
<There's no word in the article on how this will be implemented technically,
<but TCI subscribers (especially with multiple sets and cable-ready VCRs)
<be warned...my suspicion is that there will be a lot of scrambling going
<on soon.  I will try to get my local TCI system manager on record about
<this soon...and see if that's really what's being planned.

Here in Madison, WI, they use a Pioneer Sine-Wave-Sync-Suppress method.  There
aren't enough boxes available to supply all cable customers, i.e., scramble
all channels other than 2 -> 13.  There was a problem in the past whereby
the system had to revert back to an older method of scrambling Showtime,
because most of the customer were only getting Showtime.  In order to get more
boxes back to cover the lesser pay channels, all Showtime customers were
scambled the old way (carrier interference).  I know a person who works the
Head-End of the Madison TCI system.  I saw the pile of descramblers that they
had left.  It weren't much.

I suspect that they will use a bandpass filter for those customers who want
only basic for $10.00.  This filter will pass channels 2 -> 13.  They expect
the local customers to continue with complete services (non-pay channels).

To put in descramblers for all non-basic customers would require units that
don't exist.  I am of the understanding that Pioneer no longer makes this
type of scrambling system.

Lucky us.
<Question to people with a similar tier in your systems: is this how
<it's done technically for you?
<
<BTW, TCI will also allow buy-through...purchasing pay-services without
<being required to buy certain premium tiers or other pay services.
<This is mandated by the Cable Bill, but TCI wants brownie points, so
<they're implementing it well before it's required in 2002.
<
<Scott Fybush -- fybush@world.std.com


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From: nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: TCI is not showing free previews of HBO and Cinemax
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:00:26 GMT
Organization: HMS

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.

Yes,The Cable Guide, which is sent out before the beginning of each
month, listed HBO preview dates but there was no "preview" flyers
included in last month's bill mailings. So I'm not sure who was behind
this "cheap attempt" - our local cable companies or Time-Warner people
who didn't bother to promote this month's freebies which included
R-rated material.

-Mark
From: Rick.Ellis@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: VCR+
X-Sender: newtout 0.06 Jan  3 1993
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:35:08

On Jan 25 18:31, Mike Andrews of mandrews@portal.hq.videocart.com  wrote:

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

It's not exactly long and translating to C by hand wouldn't take much time.
From: dws30@p1sst03cd.amdahl.com (David Sharpe)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: Universal Descrambler: WTFO?
Date: 21 Jan 93 03:21:21 GMT
Followup-To: Help Me figure this out
Distribution: rec.video.cable-tv
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA


	I would be glad to help you out, others will as well I'm sure.  Ask Away