HD Comcast TiVo: Sooooo Sloooow!

[Naugahide]

I have the Comcast Motorola settop box running the TiVo software.

Before this, I have been using a Tivo S2.

In almost every command, the Moto box is slower than the S2. Commands lag so bad that you get several commands ahead of the box.

Once you are out of the TiVo menus and watching a video, things are fine till you try fast forward / rewind where again there's a huge lag from the time you press the key till it does it.

Any thing that has to scroll large areas of output (Guide, Search results, etc) is so slow it just isn't usable.

So I'm starting to look into getting a S3. How does the S3 compare to the Moto in terms of performance? Does it have a faster CPU and more memory than the Moto box?

How does one go about getting CableCards from Comcast?

Thanks,
NaugaGuy

[bhaas]

dunno wrt the moto, but the THD interface is a little slower than the S2, at least compard to my 140- and 240- model S2s. The THD is acknowledged by TiVo to be slower than the full-on S3 (at least for transfers, and anecdotally for most functions).

[miricle]

Originally Posted by Naugahide

I have the Comcast Motorola settop box running the TiVo software.

Before this, I have been using a Tivo S2.

In almost every command, the Moto box is slower than the S2. Commands lag so bad that you get several commands ahead of the box.

Once you are out of the TiVo menus and watching a video, things are fine till you try fast forward / rewind where again there's a huge lag from the time you press the key till it does it.

Any thing that has to scroll large areas of output (Guide, Search results, etc) is so slow it just isn't usable.

So I'm starting to look into getting a S3. How does the S3 compare to the Moto in terms of performance? Does it have a faster CPU and more memory than the Moto box?

How does one go about getting CableCards from Comcast?

Thanks,
NaugaGuy

I've seen people mention the slowness, which I see as well, but I think that is a factor of the slow hardware in the first place. The iGuide software seemed just as fast (for the few weeks I had it before Tivo was available).

[Naugahide]

Originally Posted by miricle

I've seen people mention the slowness, which I see as well, but I think that is a factor of the slow hardware in the first place. The iGuide software seemed just as fast (for the few weeks I had it before Tivo was available).

Thanks for your posting. How can I get some basic specs on both the Moto and S3 units? Things like the CPU they use,frequency, amount of memory, etc?

[Naugahide]

Originally Posted by Naugahide

Thanks for your posting. How can I get some basic specs on both the Moto and S3 units? Things like the CPU they use,frequency, amount of memory, etc?

Google, of course!

Tivo S3 has a BCM7038 CPU, which "ncorporates a 300 MHz 64-bit MIPS® CPU, along with floating point processor, which has a very fast path o 400 MHz DDR system memory". S3 has 128 MB of DDR SDRAM.

I didn't find anything definitive on the DCH3416, other than it does have the same amount of memory (128MB) and one claim that "the Broadcom CPU in the Motorola DVR is the same as the one in the Tivo S3".

That makes it hard for me to want to try the S3, especially with TiVo's minimum 1 year contract.

[Eric90gt]

just remember that this is still in its infancy and that there will be software revisions down the road that will address speed as well as other bugs.

welcome to the world of early adoption

[b_scott]

sorry wrong thread.

[userrqme]

Yes I was also facing the same problem,, Also i tried to modify its core many times, But still its creating a alot of problems.. lolz ]'

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[HDTiVo]

Originally Posted by Naugahide

That makes it hard for me to want to try the S3, especially with TiVo's minimum 1 year contract.

Listen, I can not compare the speed of the S3 to CableSoft as you first asked, since I don´t have CableSoft, but I can tell you as someone who has S3s and TiVo HDs that their speed is generally good and you should be satisfied. There are of course some issues, but they are not necessarily permanent nor do they dominate the experience, but present only small annoyances.