Enraged Xfinity customer

[Jakesty]

So Xfinity has decided to no longer support the m-card, aka Cablecard for the HDPrime/TIVO.  I renewed my agreement with them about 3 weeks ago and about a week ago the card stopped working.  Went into the store and their comment was "yeah, they've sent out messages regarding the EOL of the card".   After my wife spent hours on the phone with their pitiful customer service, they're basically going to send me a box that has DVR abilities.
But I of course like control of my own content and don't need them preventing me from doing so.  

Is there any alternative to using NextPVR with Xfinity compatible hardware?  I'm really not wanting to go down the route of using emitters, but that's the only thing I'm aware of and this is like going back in time 15 years.

Is my HDPrime a boat anchor now?  Perfectly working and now useless.

(This after all this time I transitioned to Linux finally and it's super reliable.  I have some things to straighten out but now I'm completely PO'd about my cable service.  I don't have alternatives that I'm aware of)

[mvallevand]

The legislated requirement to support cablecard was dropped 5 years ago so maybe be pissed off with the FCC, you were luckier then some to get it this long. Small consolation I know. The reality is cablecard is analog coax delivery and with fiber and IP based delivery now it does make it harder for the providers to maintain.

We never had cablecard here in Canada so last year when my provider dropped coax for digital my 5 STB's were landfilll. I already had HDMI grabbers and blasters so it wasn't too much of a hit to switch over to using the digital receivers (they licensed the system here from Xfinity). I grumbled at first because my STB's had been paid off by monthly fees a while ago, but it turned out my package with TV, 1.5 Gb and 2 boxes was $100 a month less. We will see happens when I renew next year.

I don't consider grabbers a step back I always got DRM channels and now I get 4K.

Martin

[Jakesty]

What kind of "HDMI grabber" are you using? Are there multi tuner styles as well? I'm currently configured on a VM, which has been great. But if I have to go to a stand alone system to make it work, I guess that's the next best thing.

[mvallevand]

Before looking into grabbers you need to consider how you would tune your device. I have the 4 tuners and 2 tuner version of this https://www.iguanaworks.net/products/usb...ansceiver/ and they work well with Linux but I don't know what you are planning.

Martin.

[nobody]

You might try posting on https://old.reddit.com/r/Comcast_Xfinity/ it looks like other people have had the cablecard repaired.