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In the next couple of weeks, I will likely expand on this in greater detail. The research about not being able to buy a cable box, lead me to do quite a bit of research… actually a lot of research. This is more of a “huh… I didn’t know that” secret… and it’s not just a Comcast phenomenon. However, in thinking about it in more detail, the stations are routinely broadcast by satellite. This struck me as odd because Comcast is a cable service not satellite. Turns out that twice a year there’s a solar phenomenon that impacts the satellites and causes brief outages for brief periods – 15 minutes or so.

Comcast will have be experiencing Sun Outages soon – While I was waiting to tell Comcast my problem with the service, a recording mentioned that there are planned solar outages.

I can’t figure out why I can purchase a cable modem, but not a cable box. It’s one the best, fastest moves you can make to save some easy money. The $50 investment will pay for itself in about 6 months.

You can buy a cable modem – You can buy them on Amazon – Motorola Surfboard SB5101 Cable Modem.

We are paying $192 a year, which adds up.

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From a technical standpoint, the hardware on the box is probably less than $100 and there is a lot of free DVR software out there. I bet I’d be giving up the On Demand feature and possibly others. That would lock me into Tivo fees though. The technician mentioned that I could get a Tivo and use a CableCard. The cable companies don’t sell the boxes. Mostly people in forums were asking and the answers were that you could try to buy one Ebay, but it most likely stolen and the cable company wouldn’t activate it.

I spent some time searching the web today and I couldn’t find a way to buy a cable box. I thought there was legislation that made it a requirement for cable operators to sell the boxes instead of renting them.

You can’t buy a cable box (sort of) – I don’t know if this is really true.

It is like buying an iPhone and getting either a 8GB or a 16GB version at random. He said that you just had to be lucky, its the same cost as the other DVR.

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I asked how I go about getting one and what the upgrade fee would be. The technician mentioned that there’s a “black” HD DVR with double the hard drive space. The 500GB hard drive that was probably $150 at the time could easily be replaced with a 2TB hard drive, for a cost of around $80 – probably much less with a bulk purchase.

There is a “black” HD DVR with double the hard drive space… – I asked if the new box I’d be getting would have more space.

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My guess is that they were worried people would start using the drives with other hardware than their own, download them, and share them over the Internet. Technologically this is very, very possible, but it seems that Motorola specifically didn’t build the boxes to allow for it as a hot-plugable drives would be fairly easy. The shows live on the hard drive of the box, and they can’t open up the box and switch out the hard drives. Replacing the DVR means you lose your shows – The technician that fixing my cable service today saw my old box and said he would upgrade me to a new one as part of the fix.From the channels that weren’t comming in the reading was 27 dB. From there I could get the value for “SNR” (Signal to Noise Ratio). The fourth option for me was the Inband Status. You’ll get a white screen with a number of options. If you are watching television, press power and then ok/select three times fast.

There is a secret diagnostics mode – There’s a secret diagnostics mode on the cable box.

This lead me down the rabbit hole to explore a number of things regarding Comcast and my cable service. This time rebooting the system didn’t fix things. Essentially this is rebooting the operating system.

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The local affiliates for NBC and CVS showed a status code of “S0a00.” The “fix” was to unplug the HD DVR box and plug it back in. A week ago, I stopped receiving some of the channels that I pay for on Comcast.