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  1. Keith
    October 21, 2008 @ 8:06 am

    so the cable card is so that you don’t need to rent a cable box? cable card can be rented for $3 versus $20 for cable box? is this the idea?

  2. Anonymous
    October 22, 2008 @ 7:52 am

    The cable card is cheaper than the cable box; however, if I’m not mistaken, with the cable card, you won’t be able to access some of the “on demand” type feature or interaction. At least this was the case the other year.

  3. Gee Why
    October 25, 2008 @ 9:15 pm

    There are a few gotchas with this. If you want all the services Oceanic provides, you NEED to rent their cable box. Since I have a capable Tivo and don’t want music channels, pay per view, on demand, or even a ton of premium channels, I can go for the CableCard for HD content.

    But, Oceanic’s switch to SDV makes CableCards worthless. The new SDV tuning adapters are coming out to CableCard customers to get SDV content so I hope by going with CableCards now, I can get an SDV tuning adapter when released and get HD channels cheaper.