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Best to check with your cable service provider first be fore you spend a few hundred dollars. I bought one and am now stuck with a very nice looking audio video DvD player. So, don't buy one thinking that you can use it with comcast. Motorola DCP501 All-In-One Home Theater Receiver This would be a great machine for all of your audio/video needs except for digital cable channel selection. Hope this helps you make a better decision on buying any cable converter box.In short, The cable companies control what you can recieve. They will tell you that you have a stolen box and they will stick to that storey and never activate this box. The real problem is Comcast refuses to activate this box. Without activation by comcast the unit can only use channels 1-99.
this thing is kinda big but it does a lot and sounds great.the only downside is that it is a cable box also built in and most of your cable companies wont activate it for you they want you to pay for their cable boxes.I called my cable company about it and they said no way cause its not ours
Ha - I gave them this broken hunk of junk. This thing is HUGE. insisted that I had a box from them already (). Too bad, because it practically took an act of God to get my cable company to authorize the receiver.
A miserable attempt by Motorola to create a high-end product that would combine all worlds. No HD, no DVR, no ability to even upgrade the firmware on this beast. and that I would need to return it to them in order to get a new one. Originally rolled out over 8 years ago, it is obvious that Moto is dumping old stock onto the market.
When it died the cable co. It perhaps was relevant & cool for 6 months in 2000, but it is a relic of another project gone wrong by the folks at Motorola.Avoid this product at all costs. Crappy stereo, passable DVD player and a 3-generations old cable receiver. Mine broke within 12 months.
My area does not have option of using as cable receiver box, so don't know how that part would perform, but all other is great and hooking it up was fairly easy. very pleased.
I bought the Dcp 501 on E bay Brand New for $104.00 sent to me.I love the system.Once you sit down and get the settings right it sounds great.I highly recomend this reciever.You wont go wrong.I use the tunner on my DVD player although the tunner on the Dcp 501 worked.It didnt respond as quickly when changing the channels as the tunner on my DVD player.Other then that its a nice unit.1
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