Charter cable, those b@st@rds

GotWood

GotWood

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Well, anyone who has Charter knows that as of Jan 28 you will have to have a box on every tv. I won't go into my rant about the over priced service, but suffice to say if it weren't for the wife I would have no cable at all. Anyway my question is this, can I buy a box from the web and it work instead of renting from the cable company? If I can't its going to cost me another $21 a month. I don't have hd service or premium channels, just the basic.
 
Why not just get internet & have netflix or hulu?

Thats what I have

Highest residential speed $50 month Netflix is $8 a month.
 
lol.. Nope! May suggest Hulu though, they have current tv shows.
 
This is the real downside to everything going digital. They can (and probably do) encrypt the data in a proprietary manner that only their boxes can decode. Chances are unlikely that a different box will work even if it is the same model, it all depends on the network.
Honestly your best best is to just ask them "Can I provide my own box".
 
We are trying to cut the cable but the wife has a few shows that are "must watch" :handed:

I have been testing out a Roku 3 streaming free stuff and also paid stuff from Hulu Plus and Netflix. Have been extremely happy with the quality of service.

One day....
 
Problem would be football season. The only game I have to miss is Thursday's NFL network game.
 
I am sure you have a buddy near by that watches football...
 
rodney eppes said:
Free antenaTV
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That's what's going in the bedrooms for sure. Now i need a couple of the digital converter boxes.

Jeff B said:
lol.. Nope! May suggest Hulu though, they have current tv shows.
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The problem with that is none or my tv's are digital and I would have to figure out ways to hook computer to tv.
 
GotWood said:
That's what's going in the bedrooms for sure. Now i need a couple of the digital converter boxes.



The problem with that is none or my tv's are digital and I would have to figure out ways to hook computer to tv.
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I thought you had an xbox? they stream these.
 
OH9JK said:
What type of input jacks are on your TV?
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Coax, no rca jacks either. I'm old school and my newest tv is 15 years old, maybe older.

Jeff B said:
I thought you had an xbox? they stream these.
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Before it will stream you have to pay for the xbox live, and that is only on one tv. My daughter has a Wii that does have netflix in her room plus she spends most of the time on her tablet playing games or Skype.
 
We ditched cable when we moved in to the new house in October. A few guys on here convinced me to do it.

We have $50 month internet and then Netflix and Hulu. Saving about $100 per month. We also bought our own modem/router so don't have to lease. I have a PS3 in the family room, a Roku3 in the bedroom, and a Roku LT in my workout space. It is great.
 
GotWood said:
Coax, no rca jacks either. I'm old school and my newest tv is 15 years old, maybe older.



Before it will stream you have to pay for the xbox live, and that is only on one tv. My daughter has a Wii that does have netflix in her room plus she spends most of the time on her tablet playing games or Skype.
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You can run the roku through an old VCR.
 
Switch to satellite and drop cable.
 
Blaze said:
What about Beta? Seems like he's not on the cutting edge of technology....... :p
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uhhh.
VCR is video cassette recroder
VHS and BETA were the cassette types

So yeah any VCR.

BTW beta was superior technology. ::double flip off man::
 
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