I was debating trying to move my DVR to my parents house and access it remotely to avoid having to use my VPN since I am outside the USA and it occasionally causes problems. But I won't be home in time to do it, and they might not have given it to us anyway. They seem to be phasing out traditional cable boxes and DVRs altogether, at least in their area. My parents Xfinity issued DVR died a couple of weeks ago and when they replaced it, they did it with a box that connects via the WiFi. Thankfully, so far, TVE seems to be sticking around so I can still use Channels until it stops.
Xfinity TVE will do what channels or maybe easier to answer 'Which won't it do'? I'm using 2 CableCARD and HDHR3-CC.
Where are you actually located? I've considered maybe a change to DTV Streaming BYOD and I'm interested in maybe a 'share' of the service. I'm a single occupant subscriber and I'd be interested in a potential 'share' to include locals.
Not sure what your post has to do with Comcast/Xfinity cablecards
If your DVR is outside the US, you're not using an HDHR Prime w/cablecards, correct?
I wouldn't be posting that in this public forum.
As I said, I was thinking of moving my DVR to my parents house. Where they have Xfinity. But I won't be back in the US to get a cable card so there's no point. Especially as even their new cable boxes don't have cable cards in them.
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I had all kinds of trouble getting an additional CableCard. The order I placed online apparently didn't go through. The order I placed through a customer service rep never shipped, despite multiple calls to customer service and being told each time that the order was "pending" and would ship within 24 hours. Finally, I went to my local Xfinity store and requested a CableCard. I was initially told they didn't have any, but after the employee consulted with a manager he said "we have a whole box of those sitting in the back." So I was able to get the card, then attempted to activate it using the online system and received an error message that it wasn't able to activated. After a call back to customer service and transfer to the CableCard department, everything is now activated and working properly.
Now I have way more tuners than I will ever need, but it comes with the comfort of knowing that I can lose one of my Prime's and not even notice it... and could even lose TWO of my Prime's and still get by. I'm prepared to ride out the last days of the CableCard until Xfinity pries them from my cold, dead, hands.
The moral of the story though is, if you are considering getting any additional cards prior to the 10/24 deadline, don't wait until the last minute! You need to allow yourself time to jump through the hoops that Xfinity sometimes makes you jump through.
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I wasn't aware of this, but good to know! The way Xfinity worded their release, I wonder if they will continue to support people who need to re-pair cards after the deadline? It only says they will stop providing cards to customers, but what if a customer needs support with their existing card?
Slight off topic to cable cards, but relevant to Comcast cable users.
What are your "Fees" adding up to these days?
For Cable Card users, is there a plan or way to only use your cable cards, and not be charged these stupid fees (Local/RSN/etc)?
Those fees were quite high for me, back in mid 2019, last i had Comcast cable.
And, are still stupid high for my Grandparents, who still have Comcast Cable and internet service.
For Triple Play (VOIP phone, Internet, Cable) with the Sports package that gives me NFLRedzone, our bill this month was over $290. That's not sustainable, especially since more and more sporting events are being moved to streaming only (Hulu + Live, Peacock, Prime). Really, the biggest reason I'm subscribing to cable is not to see everything, but to have it available in the event I wish to see all or part of a sporting event. The flipside is that streaming is a horrible way to watch a game you want to speed through and catch as much as you can in as compressed a time as possible. Streaming is perfectly fine for just about anything else, but I have found that to have all I'd like available (legally, which I'm all about as I will only t things I can't find anywhere else) would require a minimum of three or four streaming services.
The best option would probably be to go back to reading books and not care about seeing ANY production that's not free.
Speaking of CableCARDs, I've never had any fail and still have three remaining that I've had since 2008. Should I be looking to get spares?
Unfortunately not. I would love to opt out of locals and not pay the fee, but that isn't an option.
The service fees on my latest statement were $25.65 Broadcast TV fee and $19.20 Regional Sports fee.
The problem is every Provider offers only packages/tiers and not a true a la carte selection of channels. So every subscriber is subsidizing other subscribers channels. Non-sports watchers subsidize sports watchers, we subsidize other channels we never watch for other subscribers and almost every cable sub includes local networks which adds a Broadcast TV fee.
My current Xfinity statement includes $30.50 Broadcast TV Fee and $13.45 Regional Sports Fee. But my two cable cards are free.
It's come a long way since the birth of cable TV when it was just a way to get the national OTA networks via cable if your antenna didn't pick them up.
Yep. There's a reason why I went to Sling: no locals and no RSNs is good enough for me as my teams are out of market anyways...and I could use the money I save to get the league packages 
