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I've unhooked everything except for the roku and cable box. After I ran through the coax, I left the HDMI cable from the cable box to the TV hooked up, thinking by using just the coax through "TV" input selector had fixed it, but even when not using it, just having the HDMI hooked up from the TV to the cable box caused the Roku to start with the "HDCP 2.2" errors the next morning, so I just unplugged the cable so that I have only the Roku going through HDMI, and the cable is coax. I have a PS3 that I use sometimes, and it has no problems being hooked up to the same HDMI roku is hooked up through, now. (Meaning no HDCP errors with PS3 and Roku hooked up to the same ports). ... View more

Thanks. I couldn't get that to work. I actually ended up with just a permenent blue screen from the comcast box through HDMI, even after buying brand new "high speed cables" (the second time I've done this). In the end, I just ran the cable through coax for an inferior picture. Just seems to be some kind of incompatability between Roku, the Samsung TV and running cable through coax. I believe the problem is actually either how the TV handles the signal or the roku. It just doesn't seem to like having an "always on" cable box hooked up through HDMI or else I start getting "HDCP 2.2" errors on the roku each morning after shutting down the TV. ... View more

Thanks. Maybe I'll give that a try. After so many months (years) problems with signals, HDMI, HDCP with comcast boxes, I'm about ready to just use the app. Now I managed to get past the "welcome" screen, but I have just a permanent blue screen that remains no matter what I do. I bought brand new "high speed" cables months ago, and just now bought more expensive "high speed" cables, and still problems persist. ... View more

I'm having a similar problem. We just upgraded to an X1 from a basic box. When I got up this morning, the cable stream was nothing but a blue screen. So I rebooted the box. Then I get to the "welcome" screen for a few minutes, then it goes to a blue screen for a split second then the box shuts itself off and won't turn back on unless I unplug its power cable. Then it does the same thing all over again. ... View more

Regarding the meter not matching the Comcast meter, I went back and looked at my router logs. Unless I'm looking at it wrong, it seems the Comcast meter is much higher than what my router is reporting. I haven't really paid much attention until they started rolling out data caps. On Comcast's meter, I'm getting about 10 GB a day on average, just for streaming about 3-4 hours of mixed SD and HD content (mostly SD right now). One stream of HD is around 3GB per hour, and one hour of SD is .7 GB per hour. Since the average household watches 4-5 hours of TV per day, that would come out to be around 12-15 GB of data usage per day, just for streaming HD content. That's without playing any games online, or streaming 4K. Obviously the 300 GB cap was put in place just so they can get another $20-$30 that they lost when people cut the cord, because anyone doing streaming-only and watches the average amount of TV per day will be going over that very tiny cap. If Comcast was being fair, they would have implemented a tiered service, where people with 6mb down get 300 GB, 25 gets 500 GB down, 75 gets 700 GB down, and 150+ gets 1 TB down, and if you go over 1 TB, you pay overages. Right now, 300 GB barely meets the needs of basic streaming for a household. ... View more

I haven't paid much attention to caps because we haven't been getting close to the caps. However, we are now streaming more movies, and video games are getting larger and larger to download (30-40 GB is not unusual for a video game these days). We've been hovering around 150-200 GB a month, but we are going to cut the cord on TV soon and go to streaming-only. We are testing it this month, and we are already at 150 GB and the month is only halfway over. I'm pretty sure our "suspended" cap used to be either 300 or 350 GB (I can't recall), but I notice it was lowered to 250 GB at some point. We are only two adults that watch TV from 6-11pm, and I play and download games, so we are probably well below what a full family would use, but it looks like with moderate streaming and game use, we are going to have to worry about that 250 GB cap in the future. They are setting the bar awfully low, considering 4k streaming and game streaming are picking up steam and video games are getting larger and more data-heavy. In a few years, 250 GB will be nothing. To boot, they've already mentioned that caps have nothing to do with infrastructure or network load, but they are merely creating an artificial limit so people will hit it and have to pay more. Due to the fact there is no competition for high speed internet in my city, there are no other options. ... View more