European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Satellite dish dealers still scrambling for sales associated Pressa Merican Rural residents too far irom town to get a Good television a Cut Rand suburbanites tired of wailing for Cable to invested thousands of dollars in backyard satellite antennas in the first part of the decade but As 1966 began Cable stations Lound a Way of scrambling their signals Consumers panicked and the dish my usury almost died. On Jan 1, there were 1 5 million dishes dotting the United states landscape 623,000 of them sold in 1965 to people answering ads promising free movies and to sports Ewels. The signal scrambling began earlier this year. Without a special Box in the satellite to decode the algorithm a series of zeros and ones 1he scram cd stations wore unwatchable. A lot of marginally financed dish dealers saw sales to satellite system stagnate from sate Wea am two Mlod to  frequencies 3700 to 4200 Mhz. Of stones Are Cote twi in a a Antenna often rns Deol Rutal Fobar Glass or Evon plus tic and rejected to the fee Horn where to signal is amplified and converted to a lower Frao ency and sent by coaxial Cable to the re Estow which feeds the transmission to is television it.  a in chop my a loll free number registers the customer and gets the desc Arnolor turned on with a signal from space in a matter of minutes. Hob Cinema Showtime the movie Channel and the Cable news network now scramble full Lime. The advertiser supported services retail for about $20-125 a year. The Movia services sell Lor prices Between $7.80 and $12.95 a month based on lha Type of package a subscriber chooses. Stephen Schulta Showtime senior vice president for Diroll broadcast development would t say How Many customers to serves via dishes Bwl he expects a jump in subscriptions oct. 10. The Day select the other movie service scrambles. Hob has 17.000 subscribers each Lor Hob and cinemas. Spokesman Alan Levy said they had a noticeable increase in customers the Day Showtime scrambled. There have been no reports of a successful Black Markel de scrambler. But some Consumers have already fallen victim to a new scam someone buys legitimate decoders signs up for program services then resells the activated Box Al a higher Price As an All purpose full time de scrambler. But at the end of the month having received no payments the program services turn off the Box by Remote control and the unwary buyer must Start paying Page 18 the stars and stripes sunday August 17,19b6