Any new updates soon?

[jcarrera]

OK, so how does the 8300HD I have work without a card? It makes no sense to have a box that works without a card, then you can put a card in it and suddenly it works. No, wait a minute, it was working before you put the card in -- like mine right now. Seems very puzzling why it is necessary to put a card into a box that already processes the signals.

[casper04]

yea they do have a slot for a card, but it's not a cable card it's much thinner. The reason yours is working now is because the box is owned by BHN, and it will continue working that way. All the boxes installed after July 1st will have cards installed because of some new law.

This new thing shouldn't really effect anyone unless u own a box

[jcarrera]

"yea they do have a slot for a card, but it's not a cable card it's much thinner."

That raises a couple of questions. (1) What is the thin slot for? (2) And are you confirming that there are 8300HD's that have a cable card slot in them and there are other 8300HD's that don't (like mine)? If so, again I say as before, it is very bad practice for SA to build two different configurations and give them the same model number. (3) is the cable card slot in the same physical location as the thin slot?

[casper04]

yea they do have a slot for a card, but it's not a cable card it's much thinner.

"are you confirming that there are 8300HD's that have a cable card slot in them"
No... actually complete opposite

Boxes currently don't require cards (not cable cards) for them to work in our system. After July 1st they will be included in all boxes that get installed, new or old. It will be optional for existing customers... but there's really no need for it unless u own a box.
This isn't BHN's bright idea, it's required by some new law (as far as i know)

I don't know if it gets any simpler... there's not much to it. If your an existing customer it won't change a thing

[jcarrera]

OK. Thanks for clearing that up. All of this stemmed originally from razorphreak's sentence: "...a friend of mines living in nyc, has cable v, and she uses the scientific a 8300hd just like the bhn ones...but they use the cable card as a norm and man does it suck..."

After that, I kept trying to sort out how they had an 8300HD =with= a cable card when my 8300HD did not have a cable card slot. I was saying, if that was true as was being indicated, that it was a bad practice for SA to use the same model number for a machine w/o a card slot as for a machine with a slot. Until your post, nobody with specific knowledge had confirmed that there really are no 8300HD's with a cable card slot.