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TiVo Premiere to add Xfinity on Demand

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#103 ·
I have Comcast in South Jersey. Until recently, on the OD channels, I would get a "Channel not available" notice from my Premiere. But in the past few weeks, I have started to see on those channels a half-screen-size box with the verbal blurb I used to see in that corner on the OD channels, but no actual listings. So it looks like they could be getting ready to start offering me Comcast OD.
 
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I have Comcast in South Jersey. Until recently, on the OD channels, I would get a "Channel not available" notice from my Premiere. But in the past few weeks, I have started to see on those channels a half-screen-size box with the verbal blurb I used to see in that corner on the OD channels, but no actual listings. So it looks like they could be getting ready to start offering me Comcast OD.
Don't bet the ranch (Negative? Me? Don't be silly).
 
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jayfest said:
I have Comcast in South Jersey. Until recently, on the OD channels, I would get a "Channel not available" notice from my Premiere. But in the past few weeks, I have started to see on those channels a half-screen-size box with the verbal blurb I used to see in that corner on the OD channels, but no actual listings. So it looks like they could be getting ready to start offering me Comcast OD.
There are no On Demand "channels". Those channels are simply links into the On Demand menus so they aren't channels in the sense of the word. The Comcast Central channels (the ones that display multiple channels) are channels with the audio for the different channels on different audio sub-channels. Maybe that's what you are seeing.

In any case, South Jersey isn't the initial test market for Comcast On Demand for TiVo. That would be the San Francisco Bay Area and that's not supposed to be working until next year according to the press release.

All that said, the Cherry Hill system has been used to test things in the past, the most recent being SDV (which Comcast abandoned).
 
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I know they are not regular channels that have their own programming. I just mentioned that in Voorhees, NJ, I used to get "Channel not available" on my Premiere on channels 199 and 315, for example, but now I get a guy talking in one corner of the screen about all the stuff Comcast has On Demand, and that on my other TVs which still use a Comcast cable box, 199 and 315 are channels where I get the same guy talking in one corner, but I also get the On Demand listings. In Atlantic City, NJ on my Premiere, 199 and 315 still give me "Channel not available". I'm not exactly holding my breath waiting for OD to appear on my Premieres, but maybe somebody in San Francisco got these screens beforehand and can report on how long afterward the actual OD appeared.
 
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Those are not the Premiere screens. Those pages have nothing to do with the Premiere.
Well, they do have something to do with the Premiere.

In selected areas of New England, TV fans can now choose between a stand-alone TiVo® Premiere or Premiere XL with a cableCARD™ and a Comcast DVR with TiVo® Service.
So as you can see, with this wording, they are referring to both the Premiere and the older motorola boxes which were updated with TiVo's software. One certainly came long before the other. However with the mention of the Premiere and the Premiere XL, it has been updated since then to include just that. How this relates to the May press release remains to be seen.

As for why anybody is excited about it, well it would be nice to have access to the VOD obviously, and the May press release did specifically state that TiVo Premiere boxes would support this, not any other, unnamed, unannounced or unreleased box. The TiVo Premiere is with us right now, after all. My only sinking feeling is that it may be exclusive to TiVo Premiere boxes that comcast provides, but that will obviously only come to light after it happens.
 
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At least one - me. I have DSL and am not interested in switching. I doubt if I am alone in that either.
I dont think you are alone, I think there are about another nine of you in the whole US. LOL.

Joking aside and serious question- why do you get DSL and not buy bundle from comcast?

Is DSL that much cheaper in your then the upcharge to add comcast internet to your tv package?

In my neck of the woods there's just no combination that can beat comcast's triple play. But i realize comcast pricing various all over. (My local comcast system competes directly with FIOS for much of it's footprint so that may be why my pricing and service is so good on comcast.)
 
#125 ·
I cancelled my voice line last year, so no need for triple play. I've had more problems with cable than I've ever had with phone line. I'm actually on u-verse internet currently at a reduced rate anyway so converting is not at option at this time anyway. I've been thinking about totally cancelling cable and going to OTA. Need more reasons?

I wasn't going to bring this up but unless there is some technical reason for it, requiring cable internet to get On Demand may be a violation of FTC regulations.
 
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I cancelled my voice line last year, so no need for triple play. I've had more problems with cable than I've ever had with phone line. I'm actually on u-verse internet currently at a reduced rate anyway so converting is not at option at this time anyway. I've been thinking about totally cancelling cable and going to OTA. Need more reasons?

I wasn't going to bring this up but unless there is some technical reason for it, requiring cable internet to get On Demand may be a violation of FTC regulations.
I cancelled my landline phone a while back and then Comcast made me an offer such that it was cheaper for me to have the Triple Play, including a new landline phone, than it was for me not to have the phone. So now I have a landline phone again.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were, in fact, technical reasons why the S3 DVRs can't handle the XOD. There certainly are enough other features already that the S3 can't handle technically. Is anybody really suggesting that no new features should be added to the DVR unless they can be backward compatible to the S3s? There'd be a lot missing if TiVo followed that strategy.
 
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