Thank you for your replies and concern. The replies here...

[BeauWorld]

Thank you for your replies and concern. The replies here have been encouraging. Especially whoever said by law, Rogers must provide cable service without an internet connection. I will have to monitor the situation more closely as we get into summer 2024, if the current boxes are supposed to be replaced by then. Hopefully Rogers/Shaw will contact me by then. I'll see if the prices you guys have given me, plus the new monthly charges like the box rental I don't pay right now, and the additional channels I want that I have now, will give me a comparable monthly bill, or will it be higher? I'm mostly concerned with that, plus getting 50 odd shows I usually have on my PVR all watched before the machine goes down. This will include taping more on my DVD recorder as we get closer.

[rstra]

@BeauWorld  To be clear, Rogers must provide LIMITED TV without an internet connection. 

[mdk]

@BeauWorld -- This will include taping more on my DVD recorder as we get closer.

Don't forget about "Shaw On Demand" (or whatever Rogers calls it) as an alternate "next-day" source of what you want to defer the viewing.

[acarnold909]

I myself am using the wired Bluecurve tv player, so wouldn't that work if you don't have internet?

[mdk]

@acarnold909 -- Shaw carries three separate streams over their cable network:

1. Shaw Home Phone
2. Shaw TV
3. Shaw Internet

So, your TV box can connect to the "Shaw TV" stream, even when that is the only stream to which you have subscribed.

Note that the "Shaw Internet" stream is throttled, e.g., if you pay for "Shaw Fibre+10" or for "Shaw Fibre+ Gig 1.5", that is the speed that you will get.

[Upfront6891]

As of the summer of 2024 Shaw wasn't phasing out this box. However, after having our cable suspended in vacation mode and reactivating it again I found the 3510 to be extremely sluggish with the program guide.

I tried to have the box upgraded for free but Retentions wouldn't budge. I said fine, cancel my basic cable. Shaw insisted I return the box including power supply and remote.

Interestingly, I noticed the 3510-M is only partially visible on the site. When clicking the hyperlink it's 404. I'm looking for an iptv provider but that's a frustrating rabbit hole. 

[rstra]

@Upfront6891 Ours was phased out at our other home, we just ignored them until they shut it down, then we cancelled. You may be in a town that hasn’t done the change over yet. We just use Plex if we want to watch the news.