At 16:27 28.5.1998 -0400, you wrote:
>On your point of special protocols, et cetera, I can understand your
frustration
>on the issue.  You were not at any point going to copy their product in
part or
>whole.  But on the other hand, the company made it clear that they did not
wish
>to share the knowledge.  Imagine you came out with a cool remote that you
then

Yep, so I need to decode the protocol myself. It is what I talked about.
According to laws in my country, when I buy some equipment, I can do
whatever I want with it. Modify, study, smash to pieces etc. Of course, I
will have no warranty from manufacturer :-)

>market and sell a zillion.  Problem is, once an hour, a false signal
erases all
>channel memories.  Kenwood then gets flooded with calls where people say,
" your
>stuff is crap.  I will never buy it again".  You produced a complementary

Hmm, maybe I am not understand mentality of most peoples in US or similar
countries. When I buy Kenwood audio system and the system is perfectly
working with Kenwood remote but is not working with some remote PC
controlled box from manufacturer XYZ Ltd., I am not calling Kenwood and
blaming them. I am calling manufacturer XYZ and informing them that their
product is crap.

>not like the protection provided through security, such as cable TV
scrambling,
>just don't buy their product.  You do have that choice.

Yes, I have several choices. One is to build my own decoder :-)) BTW, it is
perfectly legal to buy satellite descrambler here, because companies are
selling only satellite receivers, but is is not possible to buy official
decoder. So, we are free to make our own decoder cards.

But seriously, it seems that there is really big difference between
mentality of peoples here in Europe (especially East Europe) and in US. So,
let's go back to PICing.

Best regards

PavelK

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