hello this is geo hey look what i have
here i have two brand new xfinity cable
boxes
and i'm going to show you how to install
these today
so i picked these two up today because
one of my old cable boxes wasn't working
properly and so i figured i'd just
replace both of them since they were
kind of getting old
these units are basically identical to
my old ones except that they're a little
upgraded
my old ones were the
c version these are the xid
p versions so basically the exterior of
them pretty much looks identical to my
old version
and what xfinity gives you in the
package is of course the cable box
itself
a new remote
the hdmi cable
some documentation and of course the
power plug
the only real difference i see so far is
the remote the old uh remote was the
xr-11 voice activated remote this is the
xr15 voice acted activated remote and
it's just slightly different but
basically all the buttons look like
they're in a similar location so
converting from one to the other should
should be pretty easy
and so just looking at the new unit this
is actually the front it's basically the
plain part of it it does have a power on
off button right here which is kind of
hard to see but it's right there
and the back of it
you have
your power supply goes right here
the hdmi plug that goes to your tv plugs
in right here and so the other end will
plug into your tv input hdmi
and then you have two coaxial
connections one cable in now this is the
cable the the line that comes into your
house
uh from either your modem or just the
exterior of your house that carries your
cable signal
and then your cable out if you have
let's say an older tv or let's say a vcr
or another device that can bring in the
signal after it's been converted with
your box so this this would go to to
that so you connect that to perhaps a
vcr or an old television connection that
uses the coaxial connection
okay so we're at my tv here and we have
the cable box here and we have these
three lines so the first line is the
actual coaxial cable that carries the
comcast xfinity signal
into my home and this comes right into
my wall and this is the end that will
connect to the cable box here i went
ahead and plugged in the power supply to
the receptacle so this uh the other end
of this wire is to the power receptacle
and so this is
the power and this is the hdmi cable
that is currently connected to my tv
so this is the back of my tv and you can
see i have several hdmi cables
this currently is the one that i'm going
to be connecting into the cable box it
is
in my tv hdmi 2 but it really depends if
you only have one hdmi connection you'll
just have perhaps hdmi one i have
several so i can kind of select which
one i pick but this cable box will be
connected to hdmi 2 in my setup
okay so i'm just going to start with
coaxial cable and again there is the
cable in and cable out i want the cable
in so basically the cable signal is
coming into the box so i'll go ahead and
screw that in
and just try to get it as tight as
possible as far down if if the
connection is poor your reception will
be poor
okay so next i'm just going to stick in
my hdmi cable which is right here
it only goes in one way
so just go ahead and plug that in
and then lastly i'll put in the power
supply
okay for the initial setup you'll need
your
your xfinity remote and also your tv
remote
if you're used to controlling your tv
with your universal xfinity remote the
initial setup you will need to dig up
your original remote to your tv so you
could set uh
the
the cable and the tv up okay so you
first want to use your uh tv remote to
turn on your tv
and you want to select the input to the
selection you uh plugged in your hdmi
cable to in my case it's hdmi 2.
unfortunately my tv has a menu based
many remotes have an input button you
can just select the input mine is a menu
based system and so i will go ahead and
scroll through my menu base to select
the hdmi 2 off camera and come back
but at the same time you want to turn on
your uh xfinity box just by hitting this
power button right here and turn that on
and then i will cycle through to the
hdmi 2 so we can continue
okay so with my tv set to hdmi 1 you get
this initial screen it's asking you to
select your language in my case it is
english so i'm going to go ahead
you could select the different options
by hitting up and down arrow
on your
remote
and there is voices that comes out
english us
there you go and we'll go ahead and hit
the center button to uh select english
do you want to keep using voice guidance
voice guidance is a talking guide that
reads what's on your screen out loud
including titles program descriptions
and more no
so in this case i don't want to continue
to hear her voice so i will go ahead and
and select no
and so we'll go ahead and get rid of her
voice although it's a very pleasant
voice
and here it's just checking a few things
so this may take a few minutes
here it's just downloading the main menu
and here it's just giving you the option
of if you want to name uh the device in
this case it's just a tv room let's see
do we have a tv room here
um
no
probably
a den would work
actually i'll do a custom name
tv room
and then just confirm so i've made a
custom name selection
devices
successfully named okay
just hitting this center button there
that's just optimizing sound
optimizing for hd
resolution optimize for hd
let's see your screen has been optimized
for the best possible resolution would
you like to keep this setting in this
case i'll just hit yes
and here's just act asking you to
activate voice control
you'll be able to use your voice control
to change channels browse for something
to watch launch apps or more and so
we'll go ahead and hit ok for that again
the center button right there
your mode is paired with your voice
control press ok to set the volume power
and input control for your tv
so we'll go ahead and hit ok
do you want to use the remote
to control your tv power or volume in
this case we want to hit yes
and here it asks is your tv made by
samsung and yes indeed this is a samsung
tv so the comcast xfinity was able to
identify that and so i'll just hit yes
and now ready to pair okay so after this
you'll be able to control your samsung
tv power and volume using this remote
perfect in the olden days you used to
have to input a code but in this case
it's an automatic process so we'll go
ahead and hit ok again the center button
right there
and then confirm pairing was successful
try using your remote to adjust the
volume on your tv so we'll go ahead
here's the volume uh control on your
remote right
here so here's the volume control right
here on your remote and so we'll just go
ahead and increase up and yes indeed
it's working and then down
and it seems to be working so we'll go
ahead
so you have two selections it didn't
work or it does work so we'll head it
worked
so if you have an audio receiver which i
do
do you want to control it with your
remote and we might as well say yes we
do want that
which brand of audio receiver do you
want to control and in this case it is a
yamaha
so yamaha there we go and we'll hit the
center button
pairing remote
ready to pair okay
okay did it work we'll see let's see uh
in this case it seems like it's working
you're not seeing this off screen but
i'm looking at my receiver right there
and so yes it worked
being the one with saying that wanted to
come to chicago and there you go we got
some cable going i'm gonna mute it with
my new remote and it looks like just
looking at the channel changer
it looks like it will change the channel
i will go ahead hit the guide button
which is right here
okay so the the new xfinity box has been
connected properly to the tv the remotes
working and we're all set to enjoy some
tv
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