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- From: rsmith@pearl.tufts.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
- Subject: Re: Cable Converter Bypass Box?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.100705.1@pearl.tufts.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:07:05 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.062729.3544@nmt.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan24.062729.3544@nmt.edu>, dchurch@nmt.edu (Dan Church) writes:
- >
- > Recently I discovered a nice little gizmo in my latest Damark
- > catalog. It was about $100 and is used to enable VCRs to be
- > able to bypass cable boxes in order to be able to tune to
- > different channels via the vcr, instead of via the cable box.
- > This also allows picture in picture functions....
- > Has anyone heard of these before, and if so, are they reliable
- > things? Also, is that a good price for something like that?
- >
- > Dan Church
- > dchurch@jupiter.nmt.edu
-
- Unless this gizmo does a lot more than you've indicated, $100 is a rip-off
- price. You can get various video switching systems from Radio Shack for a
- lot less, and they'll do the same thing (possibly in combination with a
- splitter).
-
- --Rod Smith
- RSMITH@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU
-