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From: Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net>
To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
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Subject: Re: to be Philips or to be Temac (Wincast question) 
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> the problem is that the 2 tuners are almost exactly identical (I suspect that
> the temic was derived from the philips as a 'second source').  someone opened
> a temic and found it to be full of philips parts.  so the bottom line is that 
> a manufacturer might change from temic to philips (or visa-versa) during
> the lifetime of a product, thus the above statement could change in validity 
> over time...


I am starting to see what you mean. Currently I have it probing as a
Philips/NTSC (because that seemed more probable), but it also worked under
Temic before. 

Ok, more to come soon.

Bernie