Offical CableCARD threads

Dan203 · 09-21-2006, 12:39 PM

acvthree · 09-21-2006, 01:09 PM

Is there Verizon Fios official thread? I couldn't find it.

Al

Dan203 · 09-21-2006, 01:10 PM

I don't see one, but if you want to start one I'll gladly add it to the list.

Dan

tunnelengineer · 09-21-2006, 01:21 PM

Awesome list Dan. Thanks for stickying this and linking everything.

joegarrett · 09-21-2006, 02:50 PM

Dan203,

I didn't find one so I started a Verizon FIOS CC Info thread.

Thanks

Found it, thanks http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=315826

PPC1 · 09-21-2006, 03:24 PM

Would Brighthouse be under Time Warner, or does it deserve its own thread?

TiVoToo · 09-22-2006, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by PPC1

Would Brighthouse be under Time Warner, or does it deserve its own thread?

I would vote for a separate thread.

gthassell · 09-22-2006, 11:42 AM

I've tried searching for the post with the number to call TiVo for support with your cable company on the install, but haven't been able to locate it. Could someone who knows it post it here?

Still trying to get a second card installed and working...

megazone · 09-22-2006, 09:45 PM

You call the standard support number and follow the prompts.

Ames · 09-22-2006, 11:54 PM

Mediacom

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=317212

fredtwd · 09-23-2006, 06:47 AM

I started one for Adelphia:

thread t=318351

(sorry, 2nd post so I cannot include URLs in my post yet).

trlyka · 09-27-2006, 09:38 AM

My provider is Patriot Media Communications in Central NJ. Please add to the list.

The forum won't allow me to insert the link

t=319079

Thanks

MichaelK · 09-27-2006, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by trlyka

My provider is Patriot Media Communications in Central NJ. Please add to the list.

The forum won't allow me to insert the link

t=319079

Thanks

patriot thread:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=319079

Dan203 · 09-27-2006, 02:55 PM

I'm not sure such a small provider warrants a listing in this thread. However if more Patriot customers crop up I'll add it to the list.

Dan

MichaelK · 09-27-2006, 03:16 PM

I dont think it can hurt. Maybe not worth the bother of the first post, but it's nice to have it in the thread itself so life is good as is- if nothing but to give people a hit when they search to minimize duplicates.

thanna · 09-28-2006, 03:53 PM

Wide Open West is coming out to install my cable cards on Wednesday (providing I don't have to return my S3 - I'm having a bit of technical difficulty with it). I'll start a thread when they come out.

samual.icky · 10-03-2006, 03:54 PM

My Wide Open West (WOW) experience (short and to the point)

http://tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/sho...d.php?t=320180

cassiusdrow · 10-05-2006, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Dan203

I'm not sure such a small provider warrants a listing in this thread. However if more Patriot customers crop up I'll add it to the list.

Dan

I am also a Patriot Media customer.

thanna · 10-05-2006, 01:42 PM

Maybe we can make samual.icky's thread the official WOW thread? I'm going to post there anyhow.

gwtamblin · 10-05-2006, 04:06 PM

I've been told by the cable company that they only have one way cable cards and since I am in a two way area they won't work. I was also told that it may be a few years before Motorola provides them with working two way cable cards.

I just talked to the TiVo S3 setup person. He said it sounds like a bluff and to ask for the supervisor.

Does anybody have any other information?

Dan203 · 10-05-2006, 07:24 PM

There is no such thing as a "two way area". There is a technology called Switched Digital Video which is not compatible with CableCARDs, but right now the only company using it is Time Warner and they only use it on a couple of lesser watched channels and the oposite coast feeds of premium channels like HBO.

This was definitely a bluff to try to scare you away from CableCARD.

Dan

sCir · 10-06-2006, 02:04 PM

I don't see a thread for Bresnan Communications - Could you add one?

gwtamblin · 10-07-2006, 10:31 AM

Thanks Dan ~ The person I first talked to said with the "one way card" I wouldn't be able to watch video on demand or pay per view. That didn't bother me since I have netflix and never used it. Is that true what he said? Gary

ccongdon · 10-09-2006, 12:07 PM

Speaking of bluffs - and maybe someone can help clear the air for me.

I have Insight Communications. They say that CableCARDS are available in my area. The operator said that they can't be used to record anything (obviously trying to push me into their DVR). I mentioned that the Tivo was a recorder by itself and just needed CableCARDS to work. She put me on hold to ask her supervisor a question. She came back and said that recording can't occur while using CableCARDS.

Is that possible? I thought the whole way Tivo worked was by recording whatever signal came through....

Chris

Dan203 · 10-09-2006, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by gwtamblin

Thanks Dan ~ The person I first talked to said with the "one way card" I wouldn't be able to watch video on demand or pay per view. That didn't bother me since I have netflix and never used it. Is that true what he said? Gary

That is true! VOD and PPV require bidirectional communication technology which does not exist as an open standard yet. The cable companies are working on a CableCARD 2.0 technology that will enable those technologies, but it's not yet approved and probably still a year or more away from deployment.

Dan

Dan203 · 10-09-2006, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ccongdon

I have Insight Communications. They say that CableCARDS are available in my area. The operator said that they can't be used to record anything (obviously trying to push me into their DVR). I mentioned that the Tivo was a recorder by itself and just needed CableCARDS to work. She put me on hold to ask her supervisor a question. She came back and said that recording can't occur while using CableCARDS.

Is that possible? I thought the whole way Tivo worked was by recording whatever signal came through....

She's just misinformed. Up until now CableCARDs were used primarily in TVs, so she just doesn't understand the way TiVo uses them to record. Your best bet is to just order the cards and give them as little information about what you'll be doing with them as possible.

Dan

MichaelK · 10-10-2006, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Dan203

She's just misinformed. Up until now CableCARDs were used primarily in TVs, so she just doesn't understand the way TiVo uses them to record. Your best bet is to just order the cards and give them as little information about what you'll be doing with them as possible.

Dan

scarily the CSR may have been correct (although it is questionable if that is legal)- seems some cable providers have all the HD channels to 90minute hold time only and then the recorded programs self destuct. My provider for instance is doing it on about 2/3rds of the non boradcast HD channels and even screws up and nails sporadic programs on the broadcast channels with the wrong flag.

BTW- anyone have a link to the legality of this. I'm 99.9% sure it's illegal but before i go screamign at the cable people I want to have the law/regulation/ruling in my hand to show them so they quickly remedy the situation adn dont jerk me around. I believe they are only premitted to use the 90minute self descruct flag for VOD and PPV- but i cant find a ruling or regulation (or even the text of the NCTA/CEA plug and play agreement where it seems to have started from) to point to.

gwtamblin · 10-10-2006, 12:11 PM

I just talked with a supervisor at Starstream. His story is that the cable cards are not working with their system and until they figure it out they are not providing the cards.

Dan203 · 10-10-2006, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by MichaelK

scarily the CSR may have been correct (although it is questionable if that is legal)- seems some cable providers have all the HD channels to 90minute hold time only and then the recorded programs self destuct. My provider for instance is doing it on about 2/3rds of the non boradcast HD channels and even screws up and nails sporadic programs on the broadcast channels with the wrong flag.

BTW- anyone have a link to the legality of this. I'm 99.9% sure it's illegal but before i go screamign at the cable people I want to have the law/regulation/ruling in my hand to show them so they quickly remedy the situation adn dont jerk me around. I believe they are only premitted to use the 90minute self descruct flag for VOD and PPV- but i cant find a ruling or regulation (or even the text of the NCTA/CEA plug and play agreement where it seems to have started from) to point to.

The 90 minute Copy Never flag is only legal for use on VOB and PPV. Premium channels like HBO can be set to Copy Once, which means that they can be recorded on the TiVo but not transfered, but they're not supose to be set to Copy Never. And broadcast programming is supose to be set to Copy Freely at all times.

If you're having a problem with this then either your cable company has something set up wrong or you have a defective CableCARD. In either case this problem would not be a problem on a CableCARD TV, so this goes to prove my point that cable companies are still in the mentality that CableCARDs go in TVs and nothing else.

Dan

Dan203 · 10-10-2006, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by gwtamblin

I just talked with a supervisor at Starstream. His story is that the cable cards are not working with their system and until they figure it out they are not providing the cards.

That sucks. Unfortunately if the provider is small enough it's possible for them to get an exemption from the CableCARD mandate, so there is probably nothing you can do. However it might be worth a call to the local franchise authority just to see.

Dan