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ChadTower:

Isn't that a rented unit anyway?

drventure:
Good Call, ChadTower, I think you might get into some hot water for even trying to upgrade a cable box, because most of them are rented, you don't own them. Check your bill to be sure. It'll usually have a 5$ or so fee for "Cable box rental" or similar.

BTW, the link to that post was excellent. I'd been considering FIOS, but after reading that, I'd definitely not even bother with their DVR and just go with an HD tivo. Good info.

Thanks!

CCM:
You are both correct, they are rented boxes.   I switched to FIOS last September and have been extremely happy with it.  The DVR suits our needs, so no complaints.

javeryh:
yeah... it is a rented box but as long as I could mod it (which it sounds like I can't) and put it back to factory when I turned it in I'd still go ahead with it.  It sucks that you can only record 160GB of space.  We run out all of the time.  Plus, it would be nice to have the space to record an entire season of something and then watch in the summer when there is nothing on.

ChadTower:

That's a long time ago, yes?  They are a lot more protective now that the cable box isn't a simple client box doing tuning only. 

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