Hello,
I have had PrismTV/internet/home phone with Centurylink for about a year. I like it. Its not perfect, but its nice and the whole house DVR is cool.
I have one whole house DVR box which is a Motorola VIP 1232 box. its black in color. I had a silver one originally, but they changed that out about a week later to the newer black one. The DVR is included in the price of the Prism TV service.
I also have 2 set-top boxes which are Motorola VIP 1200. They are silver in color. These boxes cost me $8.95/month each ($18 month total). Looking on ebay.com, I noticed that several vendors are selling the Motorola VIP 1200 boxes for around $20-30.
I spoke to customer service at Centurylink today about another matter and she said that I could probably buy my own box and use it in the place of the one I am "renting" each month. Since it would be paid for in 3 months, this seems like a good savings. However, a CSR doesn't know a lot from a technical standpoint.
The company on ebay that is selling these boxes just gets them wholesale and really doesn't know anything about them. I'm willing to get one and try it out, but I don't want to waste a bunch of time if there is going to be some firmware incompatibility or something. It looks like a lot of these IP set-top boxes are also used for AT&T Uverse TV.
I'm thinking it might take a service call to program the box into their system. When my original service was installed, the tech punched a lot of numbers in with the remote to get it to program into the system. the price of a service call would cancel out the savings of not paying for box rental....
Has anyone purchased a set-top box and done this?
Thanks,
Mr. Style
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