Look out for COX Cable
931778
I got the receiver a week or so ago and it is great, especially considering the price.  It sounds great and most setup is automatic.  It works great with PS3/HDMI.  HDMI is required for the PS3 to output more than 2 audio channels from a Blu-Ray Disk (Standard DVDs on the PS3 reproduce Dolby 5.1 just fine.)

HOWEVER, beware of COX cable if you want to use HDMI from the cable box. You will get an error on your TV about it not supporting HDCP, which is a copy protection scheme.  Cox (Scientific Atlanta) DVR boxes see any HDMI switching receiver as some sort of pirating device and requires you to use component cables.  This is a major inconvenience! The result is that you can't switch from the COX box to the PS3 without changing inputs on your TV.

A call to COX customer "care" revealed that they don't care to remove HDCP from their cable boxes even though I suspect it would be a simple ROM upgrade.
381202
This modem works well with Cox Cable.  I have been using it with this service for around a month now and I have not had any drops in service or slow speeds.  The modem has maintained a steady, bonded connection since I installed it.  Installation as easy. Just plug in the coax, plug in power, and call Cox to register the MAC address and I was up and running within minutes.

It is important to note that the Cox rep told me it is NOT compatible with Cox Gigablast service. Despite that it is still very fast. I pay for 100mbps down but all of my speed tests return around 130 to 140mbps.
82475
If you have a cable service provider, the RFs transmitted to your house are probably coded and only digital boxes that are provided by your cable company will work. This means that this box will not work via a cable antenna connection. This reason I purchased this box was so I could avoid paying Cox cable an extra $10 a month for an additional HD box for my new HD projector. I'd rather pay $40 once instead of $120 over the entire year. It will work if you have an HD antenna that captures OTA signals and converts them to digital signals for your TV. Also, I did test out the plug and play feature and it did work but only for flash media or mass storage devices that are formatted as FAT16/32. Most people have hard drives that are formatted NTFS so the plug and play function will not work in that case. For the money, this is a okay product but it will only work for people that use OTA HD antennas and have FAT16/32 formatted mass storage devices. That should advertised better.
2102869
This was listed on Time Warner Cable/Spectrum's list as an option-- but my internet was spotty for the first month.  And it wasn't until they sent out a higher level technician from TWC that they figured out it was the modem.  So they hooked up one of their own modem/routers to replace it and everything worked.  What's frustrating is that I'm outside of the return window so I'm stuck with a broken product that wasn't cheap.
4718516
There are 4 different places on the description of this product which make the false claim that this is COX compatible...it is not. If COX is your bandwidth provider, keep looking because these lying people don't have what you are looking for.
2091547
Works fine and was tired of renting my modem from Time Warner Cable.  Should have read my monthly bill better as I did not know I was renting a modem from Time Warner!!!!!!!
2638745
I purchased this cable modem to replace a rented modem from Comcast.  The one improvement would be to make clear that the MAC address needs to be provided to your cable provider.  Or in my case, I went to the Comcast office to return the rented modem and gave them the new surfboard so that they could scan the MAC address.  The new modem will not work (be recognized by the system) until the MAC address is registered.  So it does not work right out of the box.
491235
I buy but could not use this product with my cable services.
2326570
Before you ''cut the cord'' (cable) go to antenna.com. It will tell you exactly what channels you can expect to receive from your address. If you are near a city, you're in luck. I bought 2 of these at Radio Shack for $59.95 each. You can see how ''free'' our Prime free shipping is. They are functioning well. The picture is better than cable on our big plasma and medium lcd. You will be surprised how many channels there are over the air. As with ANY tv antenna, set up requires experimentation as to direction of the device. Prepare to be patient. Best placed near an outside wall.
Have fun.
2661055
Good when the cable is out and you need something to watch. Wouldn't go out of my way to see this.
4381626
Ditch the cable company's router. This will speed everything up and maximize what you pay for already. Important to pair with a good modem such as a surfboard. Another plus is that it is aesthetically pleasing!
4010410
I'm getting 383 down / 36 up with this modem on the Cox Ultimate package in San Diego.  Locked on to 24 downstream and 4 upstream channels.  Note that after Cox provisioned this and I first plugged it in, I was only getting 125 down (which was my previous speed), but a few minutes later, the modem rebooted itself and then locked onto 24 downstream channels and started getting 383 down.

It does use a different power adapter than my previous SB6141.

Overall, great so far!
1928854
Wasted a lot of time trying and was finally told by tech support that the issue was with my Comcast provided router/modem. It seems to be a common issue, so I'm not sure why they didn't tell me that sooner.

There aren't that many cable networks any longer, so selling a product that doesn't support the provided router/modem of one of the major cable providers seems a little goofy to me. At least state that it's not supported before I waste hours of time trying to figure it out.
1060028
Cut that cable.  The Fire TV is saving me over $200 a month in cable bills.  No streaming issues works like a charm!
1306868
sorry bought this, did not need it, not sure what to do w/ this since cable is since cable is so short?  from John Bradford
1893305
It will not work with Charter cable.  I need more help.
1492260
I definitely need to get around to seeing if they have updated software for this thing. Onto the review:

It's been great. I ended up buying a $15 set of rabbit ears from Radio Shack and now am getting around 25 channels. Unfortunately, 3 are the kind I don't watch, and 7 of them aren't in English. However, I do get enough free channels that I do watch, so I miss not having Cable TV a lot less.

The picture quality has been fantastic. I have a 2nd monitor, and it feels just like a television set. The software it came with does crash quite a bit, and it is annoying.

Overall, it's been nice and it's making me look at getting a better antenna. It's also an incredible complement to a laptop computer.

Update: the WinTV application crashed like crazy just how. However, if you have Windows Media Center, it simply blows away WinTV. I got more channels with it and it's more stable