Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou4b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!ariel!hou4b!dwl From: dwl@hou4b.UUCP (D Levenson) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Cable ready TV, etc. Message-ID: <1281@hou4b.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 11:05:31 EST Article-I.D.: hou4b.1281 Posted: Thu Jan 17 11:05:31 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 02:42:56 EST References: <712@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 13 In Somerset Co. New Jersey, the TKR Cable company does not scramble the movie channels. They install a notch filter on the pole where your drop connects to their backbone, to notch out the channels you're not buying. (Or so I've been told -- anyone know for sure?) What the CATV industry is drifting toward, however, is not scrambling but encryption -- the decryption can then be done by anybody's cable-ready video product if it has the key. The key is distributed in a way that allows the company to charge for it, and updated once per billing-cycle. -Dave Levenson AT&T Holmdel