MPEG4 comes to Fios

[steve614]

Originally Posted by tootal2

Why wont tivo release a soft wear update for the tivo hds anymore? tivo hd does have a h.264 decoder in it so it should work. i feel like my tivo hd is being abandoned by tivo.

I don't know. I think TiVo will cave if/when H.264 becomes widespread and they start getting flooded with calls.

If TiVo wants to force people to upgrade, then the least they could do is allow a TSN swap for monthly subscribers, or a $199 lifetime service transfer.

[philhu]

Update on TiVo/fios/mpeg4

Hbo and Cinemax went mpeg4 on fios

If I tuned to these, I got a cable card diag screen

I called fios, he spent 40 minutes manually updating my cable cards on all 3 tivos. One premiere and 2 TiVo HDs. They all work now!!!

FYI

Fios/vh06 Boston

[NYHeel]

Originally Posted by philhu

Update on TiVo/fios/mpeg4

Hbo and Cinemax went mpeg4 on fios

If I tuned to these, I got a cable card diag screen

I called fios, he spent 40 minutes manually updating my cable cards on all 3 tivos. One premiere and 2 TiVo HDs. They all work now!!!

FYI

Fios/vh06 Boston

I could be wrong but I don't think those channels went mpeg4. I think they just instituted the copy once flag and required the cable cards to be paired directly to the device that they're in.

[philhu]

You might be right

That would explain why the tivohd units are working
Too

Ill try some copy transfers tomorrow to see
If it got turned on

[aaronwt]

They just enabled the copy protection. I wish they would convert all the premium channels to MPEG4. That would free up alot of space to add more HD channels.

[philhu]

Yes except until they fix their qam mapping, promised almost 2 yrs ago, they can't add more than a handful