Scrambled channels irk cable viewers By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff | May 12, 2004 Comcast Corp. is cracking down on a free lunch many of its Boston cable television customers have been enjoying for years. The largest cable provider in Greater Boston has started scrambling or terminating broadcasts of channels that thousands of its customers have been watching for free. City Hall officials said yesterday the move appears to be entirely legal, but is still drawing many complaints from Hub residents who are finding that channels like CNN, ESPN, Comedy Central, and the History Channel, which they once watched regularly, are showing up as an unintelligible blur. In some cases, the move is also obstructing customers' use of TiVo -style digital video recording devices. ... http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/05/12/scrambled_channels_irk_cable_viewers/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.