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Cord Cutting With Comcast Xfinity Don’t Expect Any Help From ROKU


If only income would increase with the same alacrity as the Comcast rate increases.   Every year you pay more and more for Television and Internet.   It seems impossible to cut your bills without losing some service.   I have tried a variety of high definition antennas to no avail.   I was able to use an antenna for one TV at my last house but I am now in a DEAD area for over the air digital reception.   What to do, what to do?
There is a way to cut your Comcast bill and that is to get rid of some of your Comcast hardware.   Those little boxes that you pay a monthly fee for the use privilege.   Ditch 3 or 4 of those and you can get an immediate drop in your cable bill.   You still need something to replace the boxes you pulled out.   ROKU can replace those boxes. Comcast Xfinity has a free (for now anyway) application that your can download to the ROKU menu that allows the ROKU to work as a Comcast box.   It is a bit cumbersome.   For some reason that I have not found yet, turning off the TV frequently puts the ROKU box back to either a screen saver or the main menu.   If this occurs you simply need to go to the Xfinity icon in the ROKU menu and load the application.    ROKU offers NO SUPPORT for the Express or the older model 3 so I have not been able to find a solution for this.   Note that is NO SUPPORT not just on the Xfinity application but just flat out NO SUPPORT. 

Bottom line the ROKU works with the Xfinity application.   That allows the return of some Comcast boxes to lower your bill.   It is not an elegant solution as the Xfinity interface is cludgy and ROKU seems to have time out issues.   If you're handy with gadgets this will be a good solution for you. 

I was going to put an Amazon link here so if you do buy your ROKU there I would get a minuscule commission.  However due to the TOTAL LACK OF SUPPORT besides website FAQ’s by ROKU, I can’t in good conscience earn a commission however small on a product that has lousy support.  So again if you have some minor technical expertise, this is not hard to setup to make work.   If you aren’t that comfortable, technically, don’t cut the cord.   

If reviewing a product, it may have been received free of charge. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.

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