Re: Scrambled TV (was Re: WSMW 27)

[anastasi@javanet.com]

From: "Sven Franklyn Weil" <sven@gordsven.com>
wrote on Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:09 AM

>
> How do you do subscription TV over the air?  Do you need to rent a set-top
> descrambler box like you have to with cable/sattelite TV? What did the
> picture look like on Channel 27 for someone who didn't have the
> descrambler?
>
I don't know if I'm thinking of Channel 27 or Channel 68 (or maybe both)
here, and I don't know if you needed a descrambler box or not.  But I do
remember what the scrambling looked like.  It was kinda wavy, and most of
the time it was so wavy you couldn't tell what the picture was.  But there
was sound, and for some strange reason, the waviness seemed to slow way down
and even stop once in a while when the "dirty movies" were on late Friday
and Saturday nights.  <grin>