On Saturday, May 31, 2014 4:33:19 PM UTC-4, bob haller wrote:
On Saturday, May 31, 2014 4:03:24 PM UTC-4, Higgs Boson wrote:

If I ever get cable again, I don't want to be held hostage to big monthly rentals for Verizon's digital box.







Is there a reliable way to buy a box that is sure to work for Verizon (tfui,tfui,tfui)?







HB



get a cable card, it will fit many cable boxes and some tvs directly to decode the scrambled channels....



I use a tivo, bought a existing one with lifetime service so monthly fees EVER, except the 4 bucks a month for the cable card that plugs in my tivo



The TIVO records shows by name, brings them up on a grid to watch whenever I care too and allows easy skipping thru commercials



Prime time has near 20 minutes of commercials, which I skip right thru


Ditto on the cable card. It's the only way I know of to get cable
without the cable company box. I have a Tivo too. I save $10 a month
on what I would be paying for a cable box with DVR and then another $3
a month because the CC is that much less than the standard cable box
without a DVR. So, I save $13 a month. It still takes several years to
break even, paying for the cost of the Tivo and the lifetime service, but
the Tivo beats the hell out of the Cablevision crap DVR.