| TV with a non-verizon box? possible? Years ago, you'd have to rent your telephone from the phone company. Today, you can just buy your own phone & not pay a monthly rental fee for a telephone.
Can a box to get Verizon TV be purchased so as to not pay Verizon every month for the cable box? If so, what kinds are available.
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join:2001-05-14
Plano, TX | Yes/no. You can get Verizon TV without using one of their boxes but it would require you to purchase a TiVo device, or something similar (HTPC), to where you would have to rent a cablecard. You could also obtain their local package and if you have a QAM capable TV get your locals (and a couple of other non-encrypted channels) but that defeats the purpose of their TV package. |
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 More FiberPremium,MVM
join:2005-09-26
West Chester, PA
kudos:28 | reply to JackPearson2
»Verizon Online FiOS FAQ »Does FiOS-TV require a set-top device? |
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I use my TiVo Premiere Elite with my FiOS service. I pay for a cable card. It works great. |
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| how much did the cable card cost you and where did you get it from? |
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More FiberPremium,MVM
join:2005-09-26
West Chester, PA
kudos:28 | Cable cards are $3.99 and only available from VZ.
»www22.verizon.com/home/fiostv/#equipment
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| thats $ 3.99 per month, rental only, no purchase....
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| so there's no way to make a 1 time purchase of a device to get fios tv? |
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1 edit | said by JackPearson2 :so there's no way to make a 1 time purchase of a device to get fios tv? That's correct. Avoid the EBay Motorola or Cisco boxes; Verizon won't activate any box they did not provide TO YOU...
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| said by Miataman:said by JackPearson2 :so there's no way to make a 1 time purchase of a device to get fios tv? That's correct. Avoid the EBay boxes; Verizon won't activate any box they did not provide TO YOU... Completely wrong. Verizon will activate TiVo box. They'll send you a cablecard, does not require a truck roll, can be self-installed. |
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| said by dcborn61:Completely wrong. Verizon will activate TiVo box. They'll send you a cablecard, does not require a truck roll, can be self-installed. .. My bad, I edit to qualify as "Avoid the EBay Motorola or Cisco boxes;"
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Re: TV with a non-verizon box? possible? Yes, but it is not a verizon box it's an xbox 360. The only fee I have outside of the 3-play is a cablecard $3.99/mo RENTAL.
That CC plugs into a SiliconDust Prime w/ 3 recorders. That connects into a virtual machine running W7MC in the basement. The VM has 2TB, so I am good.
I have 5 TV's and 5 refurbished/used Xbox 360 slim that I paid no more than $130 for (each). However if I want to add a TV, I just plug in another Xbox, no more fees.
I also added xbox gold family to get amazon and netflix on the same box (up to 4). For the 5th TV I have an old Roku on it.
Now my Verizon "guarantee" is up in Jan 2013 (MTM), and I noticed that to keep the same extreme package and 50/25 that is going to run me $30/month more, which is negative.
The best thing about the CC is that I can throw VZ to the curb, plug in a Time Warner cable card, fix the lineup and nobody knows the difference.
I may dump the triple play altogether and just go internet and OTA for the regular channels (which that's all my wife watches anyways).
At that point, I just swap my 3CC for my old HDHR, update the channels and nobody knows.
The only thing you lose is all the ads and VOD. Big loss.
I have had this setup in place for almost 2 years, so it has already paid for itself.
I hear VZ is working on a similar IP model where CC is not needed for each box, but you get a little roku-like device for each TV, and a master DVR. The question is how will they price them. If it's $5 then maybe it's worth the lease, but if the price is the same as today maybe not. |
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Red Bank NJ | reply to JackPearson2
U can get just the basic channels (locals (HD also) and afew national channels) on TV's or equipment that support QAM without a cablecard. I think basic runs like $15.99 month in Jersey. |
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