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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">those who have to install and maintain them.<br><br>I once had a sneaky idea: Power is a significant expense to a cable<br>
operator. What if you had each STB feed just a few watts back out to<br>the system, you could run it using your customer's power. The current<br>in the lines would also discourage tampering :-)<br><br>beww<br>
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<div>Well some people run a combo house, were you have tvs and computers connected directly to the wire and set top boxes. suppose one of those boxes over volted the system and blew out someones 60 inch plasma or someones 12,000K AlienWare PC with Vista Ultimate acting as a mediacenter or something.. the liability would be staggering from one screw up</div>
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