Is there any way around having a box?

Question

I have FIOS TV, and am building a new house.  I decided to put a flat screen in my kitchen to watch while cooking.  It will be mounted on a wall that doesn't have anywhere to put a box.  I did have power and "cable" mounted up high behind it.....The set is a brand new model, are there alternatives?
Also, I wanted to put tv in the guest room, but a monthly box charge seems a lot for a  room that will hardly ever be occupied......
Message Edited by BigRedHarley on 07-19-2009 03:48 PM

Answer 1

smugglz wrote:
What I find **bleep** is the fact that verizon claims that the signal cant be decoded, but thats because they have a lame encryption on it.  They are just money hungry....
Look at comcast, you buy it, you get HD, you have a HD tv, you watch all your favorite HD channles, with no **bleep**.  Then you have Verizon, got a HD TV, TOO BAD, 9.99/m.  And its funny because if it wasn't for the encryption, then there wouldn't be a problem.  ITS BAD ENOUGH that you need the ONT in the basement to decode the optical signal, but an encryption too? HELLO, WHO can make their own OPTICAL decoder?  IF they already have the service, then Verizon needs to allow HD ready tv's to watch television.  YES, the little wireless box controls things such as VOD and internet, but WHY.  ITS NOT NEEDED.  Verizon really needs to stop being money hungry and be "the people's company".  Although I enjoy the quailty and speed of verizon, I find it difficult when the need for TV comes in play and I cant watch it. 
The Economy is in the **bleep** can, and verizon still makes people pay 3.99/5.99/9.99/12.99 per box per month.  GET WITH THE PROGRAM.
I agree for the most part though not with the way you choose to convey your opinion. It is definitely annoying that we have to in effect pay twice per TV to actually receive the content we subscribe to. Personally I don't see it any differently than when you had to rent your phone from the phone company and rent a phone for every room you wanted to use it in. Verizon's response is they limit clearqam since they are required to offer a basic package for 12.99 and don't have a way to limit who has access to what channels so if you subscribed to the basic package you would get every channel or most of them without the current encryption.
Of course it isn't in Verizon's best interest to offer a solution where there is something at the ONT or router that  knows what you subscribe to allowing unencrypted channels without the need for set top boxes. If they offered that you wouldn't have to pay an additional fee for every TV you use. Of course some people still would since they want the guide or VOD or PPV, but there are those of us who don't need that on every tv.
Maybe someday someone will come up with a whole house descrambler that only requires one cable card, but then again as tight as the cable card standards are on equipment it will probably never happen.  Maybe one day Verizon will surprise us and offer something that unenecrypts QAM at the ONT or router but I just don't see it happening since it would make too much sense from the consumer side.