Tired of renting a settop box

[Tired21]

The sore point is that I am paying $24.00 a month for equipment rental on two settop boxes.  I have paid this for 4 years now.  Meaning that I have paid rental costs of about $1200 for these two things.

Verizon needs to sell these items instead of screwing the customers.

Thanks,

Tired

[jonjones1]

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@Tired2 wrote:

The sore point is that I am paying $24.00 a month for equipment rental on two settop boxes.  I have paid this for 4 years now.  Meaning that I have paid rental costs of about $1200 for these two things.

Verizon needs to sell these items instead of screwing the customers.

Thanks,

Tired

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You could get cablecards or TiVo and no more rentals.

you could drop tv and just get a streaming service like DirectTVNOW or Sling or PSVue and save a ton of money on equipment rentals, taxes, surcharges, sports fees, and for tv itself. Something to ponder.

[CRobGauth]

No cable provider sells their boxes.

Rental covers not only the hardware costs, but software development and support.

Probably a small profit as well.