Hypothetical Situation:
Let's say a digital cable customer is having problems with her cable service. Let's say her cable box freezes up and reboots itself intermittently. Let's say having the cable box replaced by a cable company technician does not solve the problem.
Hypothetical Next Step:
Let's say Level 3 support at the cable company decides to replace her standard digital box with an HD box since the HD boxes have more memory. Perhaps this HD box was mailed to her house and installed by the customer. Perhaps the HD box came with a return-mail address label, but without any instructions stating that the standard box had to be returned.
Hypothetical Questions:
If this hypothetical customer installs the standard box on another TV, will the cable company know about it? Will it get the nightly updates from the cable company? Hypothetically speaking, would this be considered cable theft?
Hypothetically, thanks!