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| Billy Bathgate Member  Choooooooch! 507 Posts 7/02 |  Posted - Mar 23 2009 : 8:46AMI have 3 TVs. Big, (46”) Medium (32”), Small (19”, with a built in DVD player).. I have Comcast service with a cable box attached to one of them. I want to upgrade to HD service on all three. Do I need three HD boxes from Comcast? If I get a TiVo (the expensive one that allows streaming Netflix) on the Big TV, is there a cable card (I’ve heard) or some way I won’t need the HD cable box for that TV? If I forego the cable box and use the TiVo as a proxy, will I still be able to order specials, (e.g., fights, NFL package, etc.) from Comcast? TiVo doesn’t play pre-recorded DVDs, right? In that case, will I need to get a Blu-Ray player as well? Will a Blu-Ray player also play non-blu-ray DVDs of which I have a ton? Is the Blu-Ray player compatible with TiVo? Or should I just put the Blu-Ray on the medium TV where we do most of our TV watching? In that case, I have an older DVD/VHS tape combo viewer on that TV because I have older VHS tapes I want to keep. Can I hook up both machines to the same TV? Or would it just make sense to try to get all the VHS crap converted to DVD? Is it worth it to get some people like Geek Squad or guys like these to just come and hook everything up, because, believe me, that would be my normal modus operandi. Any comments like, "Oh, you can just do it yourself" are likely to be met with mch skepticism. Answers to any would be appreciated. [Link] |
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| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Mar 23 2009 : 9:55PM Cable-box depends on your service and whether your TVs can properly tune and decode the cable signal without the box. Modern tvs can usually tune, but can't decode scrambled signals (which is a way they keep people from stealing cable). You're best off asking the cable company. TiVo is typically offered as an integrated service through your provider, be it cable or DirecTV, so if you have TiVo, you should be able to get PPV, special events, porn, and all the other things you normally get. Again--if it were me, my first stop would be to call the cable provider or whomever you're going to use, and find out what they say you need. As for setup--I think if you already have cable hooked up, it'll only be a matter of swapping boxes. If you don't already cable, you might want to have an installer do the job. [Link] |
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| Billy Bathgate Member Choooooooch! 507 Posts 7/02 | Posted - Mar 27 2009 : 1:42AM I was considering one of the high-grade Blu-ray players because I was intrigued by the idea of Netflix streaming videos. After research, it turns out that they have over 100,000 DVDs available for rent but only 12,000 movies available for streaming. So the Comcast HD movie availability will probably suffice; be just as good or better. So I guess I need an ordinary Blu-ray player plus HD boxes for two of the three TVs. The one ordinary Comcast box I can switch to the small TV which has a built-in DVD player. [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Mar 27 2009 : 6:14PM [Link] |
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