Cable Card - 1 or 2?

[Go Bears]

Hello -

I am awaiting the arrival of my new HD Tivo and have a question regarding the cable cards. When I called Comcast, they said to come in and they will give me a dual card instead of two single cards. Is this the way to go, or should I get two single cards?

If it makes any difference, i am in the Bay Area

Thanks in advance

[RonDawg]

If you are being charged per CableCard it would of course be cheaper to go with the single M-card.

A single M-card is slightly easier to set up, as it's only one card whose numbers the tech has to read off to the head office (and possibly get wrong in the process) and also one card to go wrong.

[scandia101]

Hello -

I am awaiting the arrival of my new HD Tivo and have a question regarding the cable cards.

If by HD Tivo you mean the Tivo Hd, you can use either two s-Cards or one m-card. If you mean the S3, you will need to use two s-cards because it doesn't currently support m-cards.*

*M-cards can actually be used, but only in single stream (s-card) mode, so two would be required.

[Go Bears]

Sorry - I mean the TiVo HD. Is there a difference between the two single cards (S) and the one (M) card? Other than what RonDawg stated.

[greg_burns]

If you mean the S3, you will need to use two s-cards because it doesn't currently support m-cards.

Not entirely true, you can use two m-cards with an S3. :)

[greg_burns]

Sorry - I mean the TiVo HD. Is there a difference between the two single cards (S) and the one (M) card? Other than what RonDawg stated.

Only thing I can think of is that M-card would be newer tech. But should function the same.

[classicsat]

For a TiVo HD, it is purely the matter of the cost of one card vs two.
In other words. RonDawg has it.