Quote Originally Posted by fly boy View Post
I will be keeping my basic cable plan - so 60+ cable channels. Just trying to get rid of the $25 a month DVR.
Look at what I'm doing then if you want to keep your same programming and ditch the equipment fee. You'll have MANY more features and you'll love having ALL of your DVR'd programs accessible from ANY viewing location and the ability to manage recordings from any viewing location too. I (barely) remember trying to record shows in various locations and trying to guess where we'd want to watch certain shows and then having to choose where we hang out based on what shows we wanted to watch. lol What a PITA!

If you have a PC with Windows 7 & Windows Media Center you're half way there. Buy a HD Homerun Prime 3-tuner HD tuner and put it on the same network. Now, if you have an Xbox 360 you're also ahead of the game. If not you can get one well under $100 on Craigslist these days. Most people will have part of that equation already and if you need to buy some of the other equipment you can find really good deals. We paid off our equipment investment in like 6most but I already had the PC and four Xbox 360's but needed two tuners. If you have $25 per month it may take a year or so depending on what you have to buy and setup is a bit cumbersome (paring your tuner card w/Comcrap can be a nightmare) but once you get it up and running you'll wonder how you ever lived like that in the past. You'll start buying more 360's too when you realize how easy/inexpensive it is to do so and you don't have any monthly fees to do so. The tuner card is free and will feel all three tuners in your tuner & if you need two (like we did) it's like $1.50 per month. Most cable outlets are supposed to give you an equipment credit of like $7-$12 per month in addition to this since you are using your own equipment but this is asking for something most employees are completely unsure of. One my system was setup and working smoothly it wasn't even worth risking undoing this to potentially get around ten bucks a month back. YMMV