Greetings Forum, We are in the market for a cable converter box for our not-cable-ready TV. This is for our kitchen TV and is the only one of our three TVs still connected to the roof antenna. The customer support person at Comcast (my cable service provider) is useless. All she wants us to do is rent a box from them. I am quite miffed at their abuse of power.

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Technologically there is no reason why we can't own the box. I would replace the kitchen TV with a cable ready unit before we would rent a box from them. Bomb Factory Pultec Bundle Crack more. For this TV we don't need all of the digital channels -- just the basic cable. The converter box in our family room uses a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2100 which we rent from Comcast.

They are available from ebay, but none of the offers assure compatibility with any service. What are our options? Cheers, Dave.

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