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Originally Posted by bicker
After forking over the $199 plus $299, there is no monthly service fee.
(There is a monthly service fee option, instead of lifetime service, if folks prefer that. It is kind of hard to compare the TiVo to the Moxi, when the pricing is presented that way. It is far easier to compare the TiVo to the Moxi, lifetime-to-lifetime, because the Moxi does not offer a monthly service fee option.)
Actually, the boxes on eBay are either stolen, or Canadian. Either way, the MSOs are not required to, and generally will not activate them. The government has imposed regulations requiring MSOs to support CableCARD, so since they've been forced to incur the costs of supporting CableCARD, that is the only mechanism by which customer-owned devices are authorized for use in most cable systems.
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and don't even think about connecting one of those boxes onto Comcast's network. They can absolutely detect an illegal box on their network. Huge fines. Not worth it...
