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In Reply to: RE: I've answered my own question now posted by jedrider on July 20, 2013 at 12:45:52
All these boxes are SD resolution, so fat chance I'll be using them.
Can't get them initialized even. Several calls to Comcast.
Still don't know why they seemed to want to give them to me?
Seems like a COLLOSAL waste to me. My wife picked them up -- they keep telling her we need them ;-)
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Cable boxes are the checked baggage of the Cable industry. The monthly rentals generate a lot of the revenue and MOST of the profits of a typical cable company. The more they can get you to pay a monthly charge for the better.
There is a move on the part of cable companies to remove all unscrambled channels from the raw cable, thus requiring everyone to rent a box no matter what. They got Congress to go along with the consumer scam by spending billions on lobbying.
The publis is only now discovering that they can get excellent HDTV signals with nothing more than simple rabbit ears. Supplement that with a low cost Netflix or Hulu subscription, and people are cutting their cable services right and left.
THe cable industry is rapidly losing out to other sources that are cheaper and offer HD pictures without the rental box costs and hassle. THe box rentals to a certain degree have kept the revenue stream going as more and more people discover they can live without basic cable. The cable industry fails to realize it, but even now they are on the verge of being obsolute. Stay tuned. It will get messier before it is all over.
The changes are just starting. THe cable industry and their set top boxes is much like the phone industry of 50 years ago. Remember when the only place you could get a telephone was from the phone company and you had to pay an extra $2 a month to get the phone. Of course you couldn't use your phone line without one of the phone company telephones and paying the rent.
Back in the good old Ma Bell daze, the phones worked flawlessly 99% of the time. And when there was a problem, they dispatched a guy who came out and fixed the problem. None of this "Is the problem inside the house or outside the house?" nonsense. Hell, I don't know *where* the problem is located, I just know it's a problem - now fix it!!
De-regulation sounded like a good idea way hack when, I'm not so sure now...
-RW-
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