<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Kirk Bocek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t004@kbocek.com" target="_blank">t004@kbocek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 9/10/2013 2:02 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Kirk Bocek <<a href="mailto:t004@kbocek.com" target="_blank">t004@kbocek.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Called Comcast to make a change to my account here in the San Francisco Bay<br>
Area and discovered that as of a month ago they started charging $1.99 a<br>
month for my two DTAs. These used to be the two free DTA's you got as part<br>
of the digital transition.<br>
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That sort of makes a CableCard tuner cost effective (since as<br>
I recall a CableCard rental is ~$5/month in the SF Bay Area,<br>
for up to 6 streams depending on vendor of the capture device<br>
you purchase).<br>
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It's actually even better for me. By not taking an HD cable box, Comcast treats my first (and only) CableCard as my free and included access device. On top of it, I'm getting a $2.50 customer provided equipment discount. Hey, every little bit helps.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I cancelled cable TV and went with netflix/hulu plus and whatever I could tune to using clear QAM over the cable line. I know that comcast will start to encrypt everything soon, so when that happens I'll just mount the antenna up and do OTA.</div>
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Note that there may be another opportunity for "free" DTAs<br>
in a few months (HD-DTAs in this case), as Comcast starts<br>
to encrypt basic cable (the B1 tier) in the SF Bay Area(*). As<br>
part of the waiver agreement with the FCC, Comcast promised<br>
free HD-DTAs for two years (as long as you ask during the<br>
change over), with the price after that also depending on market<br>
conditions. So, when you get your notification, decide if you<br>
want one/two of those new(er) HD-DTAs "just in case".<br>
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Is this confirmed? Are there finally going to be "HD-DTAs" and not just the choice between the full-blow cable boxes or these really minimal, analog-only DTAs? It sure can't cost that much to add an HDMI port to something simple along the lines of one of these little boxes.<div class="HOEnZb">
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