Learn about customer owned off market tv boxes.
Alternative to cable box rental.
Letting cable customers use third party products instead of a rented cable box has raised hopes that consumers would be able to.
Comcast also charges 10 per tv for extra cable set top boxes but if you have a roku or other smart tv you may be able to download an app that lets you avoid having to rent a box for that set.
They charge a monthly fee for the program guide service david could always choose streaming from an online source like netflix hulu or use a roku box.
Learn about customer owned off market tv boxes.
I have four cable connected tvs in my house for which i was paying 22 mo 264 yr in additional box rental fees.
The apple tv is one of the sleeper hits of the set top box industry.
He could get a tivo dvr which will record if he has a cable card that will decrypt the content.
Also cable and satellite companies encrypt their signal.
The reality is if you cannot tune in the channels you want via your tv s built in tv tuner and you don t want to pay the monthly tivo fee or mess around with the idiosyncracies of a cablecard device.
But the rental fee for the card is typically much lower than the rental fee for a dvr or cable box.
Comcast currently charges customers 10 a month to rent cable boxes.
Instead of having boxes for all your tvs you can opt to keep the cable on your main tv and consider using an antenna s to receive programming on one more of your.
Check out an in depth review of the apple tv in the video above.