From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!u1100a!sdo Newsgroups: net.video Title: Re: Ripoff features of T.V. sets Article-I.D.: u1100a.274 Posted: Tue Jan 11 15:51:02 1983 Received: Thu Jan 13 03:11:23 1983 References: hogpc.15 In Hillsborough, NJ, the cable company started scrambling the pay channels this week. The only way they controlled it before was to program the cable box not to be able to select the channels. I could receive them on a cable ready tuner without any problem. What people were doing to cheat the company was to only purchase the middle of the three consecutive pay channels. When that one was tuned to appear on channel three of the TV, the other two could be received on channels 2 and 4. They were just downconverting by a fixed amount, and not filtering all but channel 3 out. Now, you can only descramble the selected channel. Another annoying thing they do is to detune all the VHF channels. Cable ready TVs now have wider AFCs to capture the detuned signals, but I have to retune my TV if I want to watch the cable directly with no converter box. Scott Orshan Bell Labs Piscataway 201-981-3064 houxm!u1100a!sdo