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Do you think I really need them?
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Yes, Comcast makes pretty sure you do.
I tried as long as possible to avoid THE BOX but over a period of a year Comcast encrypted most of the cable chanels and thus to get what you are BUYING you must rent a box unless you want to stick with the most basic of basic setups with a dreary picture on many channels. For me, the Comcast HD box is $10/mo. extra for the first set and MORE for a second (strikes me as goofy, but that's how it is.) Very little of the QAM's is left unencrypted...basically just the local channels, because that's what the law demands.
With the HD box you get some extras like many cable channels in HD (Sci Fi, AMC, TBS, CNN, etc.) rather than just the OTA's.
But very quickly that $10 Basic become $50 Standard.
