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French term or phrase:	chaîne cryptée
English translation:	scrambled channel
Entered by:	Julie Roy

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2:54am May 29, 2004

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French term or phrase: la chaîne cryptée

This is the sentence:

Comme les télévisions privées, la chaîne cryptée

Is it "pay-per-view TV"? "Encrypted netowrk/TV" doesn't make sense to a US audience, no?

Jacques Saleh

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Questions: 176 (all closed)
Answers: 997

United States

scrambled channel

Explanation:
En Amérique du Nord : chaîne cryptée = scrambled channel

TERMIUM Plus
DEF – A channel transmitting or receiving the encoded or private form of a signal that is unintelligible except when it is decoded or descrambled.

Selected response from:

Julie Roy
Canada

Note from asker to answerer

Thank you, Julie; although the term referred to Canal+ in the text, it is good not to repeat ad nauseam the name of that company... Merci bien et a bientot j'espere...
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +7

scrambled channel

Julie Roy

3 +1

Canal Plus

David Sirett

3 -1

cable television network

Rowan Morrell

Answers

41 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

scrambled channel

Explanation:
En Amérique du Nord : chaîne cryptée = scrambled channel

TERMIUM Plus
DEF – A channel transmitting or receiving the encoded or private form of a signal that is unintelligible except when it is decoded or descrambled.

Julie Roy
Canada
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Note from asker to answerer

Thank you, Julie; although the term referred to Canal+ in the text, it is good not to repeat ad nauseam the name of that company... Merci bien et a bientot j'espere...

24 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

cable television network

Explanation:
That's what it sounds like. Cable television networks are scrambled and you have to get a decoder in order to be able to watch them.

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Note added at 2 hrs 24 mins (2004-05-29 05:18:36 GMT)
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Cable TV CHANNEL might be better than cable TV NETWORK in this instance, come to think of it.

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Note added at 2 hrs 24 mins (2004-05-29 05:18:53 GMT)
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Or just \"cable channel\".

Rowan Morrell
New Zealand
Native speaker of:

English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

neutral

xxxsarahl: right, but cable TV is different IMHO. eg, this scrambled station is ONE channel.

1 hr

-> This is for a US audience, though. Cable television is something that US audiences would understand, and the asker seems to want something that would make sense to a US audience. Added: You can have a single cable TV channel.

neutral

writeaway: same everywhere-you need to buy/lease a special decoder to see this particular channel. is not a US/UK issue. is not the same thing. agree with sarahl. we have cable here and one scrambled channel I can't see because I don't have the decoder.

4 hrs

-> Yes, but it's a matter of what works in a US or UK context. A cable channel and scrambled channel are much the same to me.

disagree

Tony M: No, 'cryptée' by itslef does NOT mean 'cable', and some cable channels may not be scrambled. And in any case, this may well be a terrestrial or satellite broadcast channel, so we can't even assume it MIGHT be cable!

5 hrs

-> Fair enough comments - thanks Dusty.

6 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Canal Plus

Explanation:
Why don't you give us the _whole_ sentence?!
While agreeing that "chaîne cryptée" is an encrypted/scrambled subscription channel, very often in French media journalism "la chaîne cryptée" refers specifically to Canal Plus. I hope your context is sufficient to show you whether this is appropriate.

David Sirett
France
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

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French: la chaîne cryptée

English translation: scrambled channel