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lippyj123   09-17-2009 at 06:42:49 PM

I am a comcast subscriber and don't want to rent a DVR from them, i would rather buy one from e-bay. Does any one know if I do this first would it be compatible and second would comcast give me any trouble???

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koifish   10-03-2009 at 11:08:35 PM

Did anyone ever answer your question? Does Comcast have to "ping" your new DVR to make it work?

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fazers_on_stun   10-06-2009 at 05:56:48 PM

I assume you are talking about the analog channels on Comcast. The regular channels are not encrypted (yet, anyway) so yes any DVR should work fine on them. The scrambled ones would require a Comcast DVR since it has the decoder enabled.

As for the clearQAM digital channels, Comcast in my area (Washington, DC) tends to move those around a lot, so I wind up going thru the channel setup with them about every other month, 30+ minutes each time.

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