Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/13/84; site intelca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!pesnta!amd!intelca!cem From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: Color purity question Message-ID: <19@intelca.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 13:27:05 EDT Article-I.D.: intelca.19 Posted: Fri Jul 12 13:27:05 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 15:00:26 EDT References: <482@crystal.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. Lines: 18 > I have a Sony VCR that's several years old, and still going strong. > I have noticed one problem though. While taping from a pay cable channel, > areas that are red are often "polluted" with blue or purple horizontal > streaks. This only happens on the pay channel, and the color on the pay > channel is fine when viewed "live". > My question is whether this is an artifact of incomplete filtering of > the pay channel's scrambling signal, or a sign that my VCR needs work. > Many thanks for the advice. Or a sign that the Pay channel is "copy protected" in some way. Since the other channels record fine I would suspect this first. --Chuck -- "Unix, the Teco of Operating Systems." - - - D I S C L A I M E R - - - {ihnp4,fortune}!dual\ All opinions expressed herein are my {qantel,idi}-> !intelca!cem own and not those of my employer, my {ucbvax,hao}!hplabs/ friends, or my avocado plant. :-}