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Be careful with your HDHR money. There are enough posts here about<br>
Comcast starting to encrypt everything that they aren't legally<br>
required to transmit in the clear so that one of these days soon we<br>
may only get the OTA channels unencrypted and the HDHR wouldn't any<br>
longer get Comedy Central, TNT, TBS, etc. While I don't like that idea<br>
at all I must admit that those channels are services I pay for and if<br>
Comcast chooses to go the direction of making me use their equipment<br>
to see them - i.e. rent a STB or give them up - then what can I do<br>
besides rent STBs or not record them?<br></blockquote><div><br>I agree that unencrypted QAM may not last much longer, so an HDHR may be a dead end.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Purchasing a second HDHR is maybe $150. </blockquote><div><br>I only tossed out the HDHR idea because of a slickdeal I just saw for a $90 HDHR at radio shack. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Renting two STBs at $7/month<br>
is $168 so for the first year it's sort of beak even. Might make sense<br>
to just live with a few months of STB rental and see how it shakes out<br>
vs. purchase another HDHR and find that it's worthless 3 months from<br>
now?<br>
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Personally I don't much care about the picture quality. It's more<br>
about the convenience....<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Mark<br>
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