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This text will tell you how to "customize" your cable box to receive every channel offered by your local Cable Television company without having to build your own cable receiver...in fact, it's so easy, ANYBODY can do it, and it's so obvious, you'll hate yourself for not thinking of it sooner...

1. First, call your local Cable Company up and tell them that you want to alter your current subscription by adding on all the other channels offered which you are not currently receiving.

2. Wait until you start recieving your “new” channels. Now, Disconnect the main line cable from your cable box, (NOT the cable that runs from the box to the television set, the one that runs into the cable box itself.) Keep this disconnected for a day or two. ((TO CONTINUE RECEIVING CABLE JUST PLUG THE MAIN LINE INTO YOUR CABLE READY TV or VCR!))

3. Install a bullet id blocker into the back of your cable box. (this prevents the converter from receiving any deactivation codes from the cable company, similarly, you will not be able to receive activation codes, so If you plan on ordering pay-per-view, order it and disconnect the box while all your channels are turned on!) ( you need to be creative, order all the pay-per-views at once?) OUCH!

4. Call your Cable Company back, tell them you didn't like this new subscription, you don't want to get it anymore, and you would just like to receive the basic package from now on. If you have installed your bullet blocker, you will now receive your “enhanced service”.

5. For those who do not want to purchase a bullet blocker: When you call the cable company to discontinue service, just leave your box disconnected from the cable line for a minimum of 3 days. They cable company should have stopped sending the deactivation codes by then. The only problem is that th periodically send deactivation codes. And if you do not have a blocker, you will be deactivated. (Larger cities tend to send the deactivation codes on a more frequent basis). Small cities/rural areas can generally get by without a bullet blocker.

NOTE: For one billing, you MAY have to pay for the "complete" package...but, after that, you only pay for your new order, the "basic," or "poor man's" package!

Todays cable boxes are used to unscramble select signals transmitted thru the cable. Your BOX determines which channels you can and which channels you do not receive simply through remote programming from the Cable Company's main computer. So, whenever they change an order, they simply re-program the subscriber's box, (from their office), so that your BOX can decode the new channels' signals. Where, in the past, they only used to send the signals which you had subscribed to, they now send all signals but only let the box decode the selected channels. Therefore, the box, AS IT IS, always has the potential to decode every signal which is sent by the Cable Company. Have you ever ordered a "pay-per-view" movie and in a few minutes the channel turns on? That is because the cable company sends a signal to your box to turn on that channel! Then when the movie is over, they send another signal to turn it off!

The Cable Company has no way of knowing if their signals ever get thru to your box at all, so, once you have disconnected the cable from your box, the Company will not be in contact with it at all, and therefore will not be able to change its current configuration. Therefore, your Cable Company will THINK that they have changed your box, and, resultantly, THINK that you are only able to receive the basic package, when you really are still receiving your "elite" configuration -- the basic set with all the "pay" stations which you ordered previously, such as HBO, ShowTime, PlayBoy, and CineMax...