I'm still using the old style HD-DVR but getting ready to update to X1 equipment. Just making sure I have all my ducks in a row so to speak. I was going to post here a few hours ago but put it off. Just a few minutes ago I was watching something I had recorded on my DVR and up pops an onscreen dialog box suggesting I need to upgrade my equipment or risk losing some HD channels or something like that. Said tune to channel 1995 for details. I went there and there were some information screens to go through to order a self-install kit. I did not follow through as I can just go down to my local Comcast office and pick up what I need.
Anyway I just want to make sure my cabling is ready for a X1(XG1) box. I am rather uneducated on the newer equipment and MoCA and just glean what I see posted occasionally here.
My main drop runs to a 3-way splitter outside. I have a homeline to my modem from the 3.5 tap. I have a homeline to my downstairs DVR where the main tv is located. I have the 3rd tap from the splitter running to the attic to a 4-way(need to change that to a 3-way) running down to 3 bedrooms. Currently my equipment is the DVR mentioned and 2 DTAs. I am fairly techie but just haven't kept up with the newer video offerings.
I was reading some of the FAQs here and some on the Xfinity site but most of the ones here seem a little dated. I assume a self-install is easy enough as long as my cableing is sufficient. And then I will need to install the MoCA filter. Looking at the Comcast FAQ and the self-install kit did not show that included.
I suppose I got that popup message as I recently upgraded my acct to a double-play package. I have been alacarte for a long time now.
At this time just trying to decide how many extra boxes I want to get at least initially. The main downstairs tv will be covered with the XG1 box. Two of the upstairs bedrooms have widescreen tvs so will need the XiD boxes for them. A 3rd room tv is still an older CRT and no HDMI inputs so might only get an Xi3 for that one.
Can I request a certain XG1 box as there seems to be 2 main styles with a few differences? Seems like one has video out and one does not. I do have a DVD/VCR combo burner that I record from the DVR but doesn't have HDMI inputs. And finally how many tuners in the XG1...5 or 6? And does the XG1 have it's own hard drive for recording plus you get 500 GBs of cloud storage?
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