On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:07:18 GMT, "Shoreline Electronics"
wrote:

This has been a topic of conversion most of the day....Try putting a 1uf
el.cap @ 50vdc from pin 15 of U3101 to ground (+ to pin 15).
This mod will also defeat (kill) closed caption.HTH

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Jeff Stielau

I kept hearing this mod with result of disabling CC as side effect,
and I didn't hear of that like this from RCA's modification data. By
the way, I find this UNACCEPTABLE mod; since many users are hard of
hearing or deaf (I'm one of these) needs CC.

By the way, how often this problem crops up is not that often and I
bet there are so MANY similar gemstar modules in many units (CTC203,
195/197, ATC113 models and several more?

And the cable providers have the equipment and items that generate
data on 21th line, there was a period when there was a feature bug
that generated extra bits, but I assume is fixed and from what I see
they were very anxious to keep this thing very quiet. Only thing that
happens from time to time is glitch that can't be prevented that very
occasionally "crashes" these type of gemstar modules and needed a
unplugged for 30 minutes to a hour to "reboot" a TV back to normal.

By the way ITC008 no longer have gemstar support but I find it
cheapened a bit like it no longer can hold channels memorized.
Citizen IS cheaper than RCA ITC008 and did have that channel memory
stored on eeprom. That's not typical of Thomson's for this. CTC185
is the CHEAPEST chassis of all and did have the channel memorized in
eeprom.

Cheers, Wizard