No It Is Not Illegal

[cablewithaview]

This is why it is called a grey area. Check out todays front page of the Wall Street Journal, programmers are upset over the "Slingbox" which will let a person watch TV from anywhere in the world.

I posted something not to long ago that questioned the legallity of the Slingbox.
http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=55571&highlight=sling+box

 

[cablewithaview]

1990? Hell I didnt even have cable then...cable didnt come to our part of town until 1993

We had an antenna that got 7 stations (PBS, CBS, ABC, NBC, 2nd PBS, IND and this new network called "Fox"....)

I was lucky growing up with cable. 300 mhz system owned by Horizen and then TCI. We had three different DMA's on the cable. As demand for other channels became an issue and bandwidth being a bigger one, eventually we lost all of Huntsvilles and was left with only one station out of Atlanta. Our main DMA being Birmingham.