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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 880.1 | | JAMIN::WASSER | John A. Wasser | Mon Feb 17 1997 21:00 | 7 |
| > I flipped past fX last night, and it looked like it was scrambled. Did
> they decide to scramble, or is this just a temporary aberration?
I saw on Usenet that fX was currently scrambled with a fixed
key (anyone with a descrambler can watch) and will be using
a private key (or whatever the proper term is) later this
year. I guess they think they have something worth selling.
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| 880.2 | | TUXEDO::WRAY | John Wray, Distributed Processing Engineering | Wed Feb 19 1997 15:12 | 9 |
| Well, it turned out that what had happened was that during a storm my
antenna shifted so it was pointing at a different satellite, even
though the receiver thought it was still looking at G7. I re-aligned
things a few weeks ago and can now see fX again.
However, fX is supposed to be scrambled now anyway, so I guess my
system was just preparing me :-)
John
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| 880.3 | | TUXEDO::WRAY | John Wray, Distributed Processing Engineering | Wed Feb 19 1997 15:18 | 9 |
| Well, it turned out that what had happened was that during a storm my
dish shifted so it was pointing at a different satellite, even though
the receiver thought it was still looking at G7. I re-aligned things a
few weeks ago and can now see fX again.
However, fX is supposed to be scrambled now anyway, so I guess my
system was just preparing me :-)
John
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| 880.4 | | BUSY::SLAB | Baroque: when you're out of Monet | Wed Feb 19 1997 15:52 | 5 |
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Glad to hear that all is now well.
Glad to hear that all is now well.
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| 880.5 | They're going "cable-only" | DECWET::JDADDAMIO | Think softly | Thu Feb 20 1997 15:43 | 7 |
| >I saw on Usenet that fX was currently scrambled with a fixed
>key (anyone with a descrambler can watch) and will be using
>a private key (or whatever the proper term is) later this
>year. I guess they think they have something worth selling.
Actually, fX is supposed to be going "cable-only" with no plans for it to
be sold to the home dish market.
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