Do I need to pay the cable company for a (non-HD) digital cable box?


We've uprgraded to all HD stuff in our main family room, but I find
myself with an extra TiVo (or two), complete with lifetime
subscriptions.

I'm thinking of just hooking up a TiVo to a TV in my office, but with
our Time Warner cable service, I won't be able to get channels above
100 without paying $8 a month for their digital cable box. It seems
like, for that price, I might as well pay $16 a month and just use
their HD DVR. (Yes, the TV in the office is HDTV, but I don't watch
much HD, outside of DVDs anyway.)

That's probably more detail than anyone needs, but I thought it might
affect someone's answer. So, what I'm wondering is:

Do I have to pay that $8 every month if I want the digital cable
channels above 100 (BBCA, FMC, TCM, TRAV, etc.)? Or could I just buy
some box and stop paying the $8? It seems like it would have to be
under $100, shipped, to be worth the effort.

Any thoughts?

.

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