[opendtv] Re: Cox Cable San Diego update
- From: John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:36:03 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Even if you had that intent, it's never illegal to receive unencrypted
over-the-air signals.
While it's possible this was cable leakage, it is more likely that there is
another explanation. I've seen one of the MTV channels (not MTV1) available
hereabouts on an LPTV station, and I was able to even get a general idea of the
tx site. The antenna was a 'bent dipole' and was suboptimal, and in English.
MTV en Ingles is not offered on Cablemas in Tijuana, nor over-the-air in
Tijuana, so the only explanation was ota from el Norte. (I live just 1/2 mile
s of el frontera.)
John Willkie
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>From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jun 18, 2008 3:39 PM
>To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [opendtv] Re: Cox Cable San Diego update
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>People can receive all sorts of things, sometimes for no obvious reason.
>
>For instance, back in Jacksonville before I ever subscribed to or
>connected Comcast cable I used an attic antenna and it could somehow
>pick up MTV2 on my MyHD card. I assumed it was getting it somehow off
>nearby cable lines, but never really knew how or why I could get it.
>
>Note I have never had any intention to either pirate or watch MTV2. It
>was just there, apparently OTA though I never found any info it was ever
>intentionally broadcast that way.
>
>- Tom
>
>
>John Willkie wrote:
>> 1. Yes, I know quite a few Cox Cable San Diego customers, like my mother,
>> who have never paid for HBO and who complain that there haven't been any
>> free HBO freeweekends for close to two decades. (This system was the first
>> large catv system in the nation, and was the subject of FCC hearings and
>> decisions in the late 1960's and early 1970's, including two that went to
>> the Supreme Court and established that the FCC has authority to regulate
>> cable.) ISTR that there was a "free showtime" weekend in the early 1990's.
>> The channel that was previously used for this service (which has to be in
>> the basic tier was relegated to mandatory leased access, and moved to a
>> channel in the 90's in the mid-1990s. The highest basic-basic-basic channel
>> on CCSD (south division, anyway) is 27, a shopping channel.
>>
>> One of the dirty little secrets is that many, many channels have been
>> alleged to be available on Cox Cable San Diego over the years (in FCC
>> filings, in TV Factbook) that WERE NEVER OFFERED on COX CABLE SAN DIEGO.
>> Examples: WGN and Pat Robertson's WYAH. The reality on the cable is
>> different than the 'reality' in FCC filings and TV Factbook.
>>
>> 2. I have a few more data points on HBO in the clear on CCSD. My mother
>> told me the other day that she sees that channel sometimes when she surfs,
>> and that sometimes the channel has no audio. When I most recently checked,
>> the entire channel was scrambled. Maybe this is in response to my postings
>> here, perhaps not; in all previous samples -- albeit anecdotal -- the
>> channel was in the clear.
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