is there an HD cable box for purchase rather than renting it from the cable company?
Tired of renting HD cable box. Can I purchase one? My cable is free with the association; trying to avoid monthly rental of the box. I have two HD tv's.
The short answer is "Yes"! However, you must purchase or lease a "Cable Card" for your box that can be authorized for the channels you wish to receive. The "Cable Card" is provided the decryption algorythm required to decrypt the encoded HD signals you want to watch by the cable companies. Their "Controller System" will provide that algorythm when you call your cable company, subscribe to their HD service, and provide the "mac address of your "cable card". Without that authorization / decryption code, you probably won't even be able to tune a digital HD signal. Now, this could all change with Federal regulation but for the time being, this is what you have available.