[mythtv-users] Switching away from comcast to online streams

[Eric Sharkey]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Stephen P. Villano
<stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:
> Strange, what cable provider is not permitting someone to use their own
> customer provided devices?
> This list is full of users who do use their customer provided devices on
> various cable networks (though, some providers are incorrectly flagging
> channels).

In nearly all cases, set top boxes and cable cards remain property of
the cable company.  If you want to buy a cable card and own it
outright without a monthly fee, you can't.  If you want a generic STB
and find one one ebay or from some other source, they generally won't
let you hook it up.

Eric