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2. Cable television piracy - Wikipedia

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   Other ways of cable theft were using a cable TV converter box (also known as a descrambler or "black box") to steal all channels and decrypt pay-per-view events, whereas a normal converter would only decrypt the ones paid for by the customer. The cable companies could send an electronic signal, called a "bullet", that would render illegal ...

3. Converter/descrambler - Wikipedia

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   When a descrambler is added to the Cable Converter Box in the same chassis, it is referred to as a Converter/Descrambler or sometimes a Combination Unit, and is a type of Set-top box, it allows : local broadcast channels, basic cable channels, authorized premium channels, "Pay-Per-View" (PPV), and “Video On Demand” (VOD) services to be viewed.

4. Wometco Home Theater - Wikipedia

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   Wometco Home Theater descrambling box. Initially subscribers paid $15 for a set-top descrambling box that allowed subscribers to view channel 68's scrambled television signals (a later addressable, 2-channel version of this descrambler was developed under vice president of engineering, Alex MacDonald).

5. Spectrum cable introduces a new souped-up ‘cable box.’ What ...

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   The new box costs $5 per month for 12 months or you can buy it outright for $60. If you’re keeping the box longer than that, it’s smarter to buy. If you’re keeping the box longer than that ...

6. Cable converter box - Wikipedia

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   Pace Micro Technology DC757X HD cable box. A cable converter box or television converter box is an electronic tuning device that transposes/converts channels from a cable television service to an analog RF signal on a single channel, usually VHF channel 3 or 4, or to a different output for digital televisions such as HDMI.

7. Zenith Electronics - Wikipedia

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   Zenith was the first company to experiment with subscription television, launching their Phonevision system with experimental Chicago station KS2XBS (originally broadcasting on Channel 2 before the Federal Communications Commission forced them to relinquish it to WBBM-TV). Their experiment involved a descrambler box mounted on the television ...

8. Videocipher - Wikipedia

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   Videocipher II satellite descrambler stand-alone box sold by General Instrument. VideoCipher is a brand name of analog scrambling and de-scrambling equipment for cable and satellite television invented primarily to enforce Television receive-only (TVRO) satellite equipment to only receive TV programming on a subscription basis.

9. Why Aren’t FX Shows on FX? Basic Cable Is Dying, But ... - AOL

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   (I know, this is how FX began in 1994, and obviously the “TV Made Fresh Daily” idea didn’t work, but something a bit more scaled-down and used as interstitials between FX’s movie lineup ...