Using used Cablevision boxes with new service

is it possible for me to go out and buy cable boxes that are compatible with cablevisions digital cable? Will these possibly used (buying from ebay and craigslist) work with the new cable service I have? I want to return the boxes they gave me and not pay the rental fees they charge each month. Now I know that these digital cable boxes use cards so can I just return the boxes and keep the card and just place the card in the new box that I buy?

while I have to shell out the cash NOW, its better than shelling out the high rent fees per month for a lifetime. Close to 50 bucks a month to rent these boxes. Thats almost 600 bucks a year. In total I can get all these boxes for 400 to 600 anyways. This way in year 2 and on I wont have to pay almost 50 bucks a month to rent the boxes. Anyways why not waste the money? Have you experienced anything similar?

who siad I have 2 cable boxes? If I wrote that down somewhere, Id like to see that. Anyways I have 6 boxes in the home. If I cant do it now then I will be happy to wait until july.

darn it. Well I guess I'll figure out something. After all, if the bill could drop down by almost 50 bucks a month, that would be a big relief! Wish i was lied to by cablevision. We were ok with sat. Granted when it rained we were screwed and when it snowed I had to go up and clean the snow off all of the sats. But thats no more than 20 or so time sa year total. Not that big a deal. God I hate it when people lie to you or at best the sales rep was an idiot and didnt know the difference from x and blue. Whats done is done and im stuck with cablevision overprices bill.

Geez they sure do know how to get you with the surcharges and fees. To top it all off, the signal is pretty weak from what I thought it would be. We get the occasional pixalated signal loss but thats rare though, for now! Cant wait for FIOS to fully arrive. They gave me a quoted price of almost 20 bucks less and I get more movie channels. Although they tell me it may take a year or longer to fully arrive in brooklyn . They do have service in staten island though

i figured it was the norm with having sat TV! If it wasnt then i just made a huge mistake switching over from dtv to cablevision. Then again when you are promised a certain price and then find out the quoted price was pure BS, its too late. I already paid a fortune in install fees and discontinued the DTV account. Gotta love it when people fool you into getting thier service and when you try and relay this to anyone at IO, they pretty much say you are a liar. To make matters worse, i was told the NFL network was going to be on in november of 06 and to my suprise, its still not available on cablevision. WOW! The hell with this. Im going to go out and buy the boxes and have some way of using them. I dont caree if I have to install a bomb in them to get them to have cable tv service with cablevision, im going to do it. Then im going to take the boxes I have and throw them in the faces of the reps at the local center. Hopefully I break a few noses and save almost 50 bucks i fees.! I HATE CABLEVISION! I wish I had a tape recorder that day but talk about being to trust worthy! A Holes!