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pangaia

(24,324 posts) Wed Oct 3, 2018, 04:20 PM Oct 2018

Question about my TIME WARNER/SPECTRUM TV BOX

I have TIME WARNER Cable for TV ONLY.
I never watch TV so I cancelled the account. They said Keep the "Box." Whatever that thing is called.
Today I get a bill that included $123 for "unreturned equipment." The BOX I assume.

I plan to watch NETFLIX (I get DVDs) and I also BOUGHT an indoor TV antenna that sometimes gets a local station. :&gt )))
Maybe in the future I will want to play streaming things on the TV screen. Youtube, Netflix, etc,. I don't know much about it.

Can I return 'the box' and buy something to replace it? Do I need something to replace it..?
This is what it says on the box.

SCIENTIFIC ATLANTA EXPLORER 4250 HDC

Many thanks for any help...

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Question about my TIME WARNER/SPECTRUM TV BOX (Original Post) pangaia Oct 2018 OP

Get a cheapie blue ray box (Sony) or something like this. It works fine w/ ... SWBTATTReg Oct 2018 #1

Thank you. pangaia Oct 2018 #2

No, don't call yourself dumb. It's just technology and it'll change again before you know it ... SWBTATTReg Oct 2018 #3

SWBTATTReg

(24,085 posts)

1. Get a cheapie blue ray box (Sony) or something like this. It works fine w/ ...

Reply to pangaia (Original post)

Wed Oct 3, 2018, 05:25 PM

Oct 2018

Netflix and other applications (I have two of them) and never had any problems w/. If I recall, it cost about 30-40 bucks.

Got at Target.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)

2. Thank you.

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 3, 2018, 07:03 PM

Oct 2018

Can I still play NETFLIX DVDs on my DVD player w/o the 'box". Just run straight from the DVD player to the TV?
god, I'm dumb about this.

But I know how to play Mahler Symphonies.

SWBTATTReg

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3. No, don't call yourself dumb. It's just technology and it'll change again before you know it ...

Reply to pangaia (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 4, 2018, 03:02 AM

Oct 2018

The answer to your ? is YES. You can play the DVDs on the blue ray box if the DVD received from Netflix is blue ray compatible.

One other point I want to make is that I run the modem still from Charter/Spectrum (for my internet) into my router, which then splits into separate feeds (1) into my computer (2) and another link also goes to my blue ray box (the one I am talking about here, the one you can buy for 30-40 bucks at target). In short, I have internet service from Charter/Spectrum, in order to get Netflix (I use the internet service for other things basically, but the Netflix was a bonus too).

I assume that you should be able to play the Netflix DVDs if they were blue ray compatible (which I think Netflix has). I know that Red Box (another DVD movie/games rental thing), you had blue ray discs (DVDs) too.

Hopefully this will answer your ?s and you get working! Good luck.

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