I'm home

[sriggins]

After 16 months on a Comcast DVR, I'm home. Before that, I had been on DirecTivos for years.

Now wiht the $499 deal and 3 year service, I'm paying $10 a month more for a much better service. I can't wait! Comcast here in portland even told me they'd hand me 2 cable cards when I bring the old DVR in.

So what should I know? Will start reading all of the threads :) I heard about CableCard 2 coming, will that obsolite my TiVo?

Does any of the TiVo To Go stuff work yet on the S3?

Steve

[Gregor]

No TTG or MRV on Series 3.

Be sure to follow the instructions for cable card to the letter. Get one card working before inserting a 2nd card.

I'm thinking about adding another Series 3 at $499.

[sriggins]

Thank you!

[fareal]

I'm thinking about coming home too. I'd had DirecTivos for years then quit DTV. I've been on a TWC HD-DVR for nearly a year and I'm thinking about jumping on the $499 deal. CableCard 2?? Why are you scaring me?

[sriggins]

I don't know enough about CC 2 yet :)

[cokyq]

A lot of people, including myself, have had difficulties with cablecard installations. Sometimes a card can be defective, errors can be made when passing card information to the cable provider, sometimes a card will fail to display some channels, etc. At the end, TimeWarner sent a tech with several cards and after a few hours he was able to get my S3 working fine.

After several months I have had no problems at all.

It can be done, its just that in some cases the installation is not smooth.