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From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Color purity question
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 13:27:05 EDT
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> 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
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