Letter from Comcast RE: SDV

What state are you in? I'll have to ask my friends who have Comcast if they've received a similar letter (where we are, it's Cablevision).

I do hope Cablevision follows Comcast's lead and gives them to us at no additional cost as well.

deb

 

I received the same letter from Comcast (South Jersey / Cherry Hill / Scientific Atlanta area) this morning.
Came here expecting to see some horror stories involving the 'Tuning Adapters', but was surprised to see none. I guess we are some of the first guinea pigs in this experiment? Uh oh.. Considering how hard it was for Comcast to even get my TiVo working in the first place I can't imagine this is going to go smoothly

 

Great! Time Warner could be next (fingers crossed)!

 

I like the fact that you can pick it up, thus not requiring a truck roll.

 

Just received my letter today here in Moorestown. I will try to pick 2 up next week...

 

I am just happy to see that Comcast (and hopefully other cable companies) are not hiding the SDV Tuner and actively promoting it.

 

Cherry Hill is one of 2 (3?) SDV test areas. My guess is that they are expanding the test to the entire "Comcast of Garden State" system (Cisco).

I'm in the Burlington System (Motorola) so no SDV for me most likely (for now).

 

They're probably sending that letter out to every CableCARD sub. Why would they "hide" the Tuning Adapter? Distributing it helps them retain TiVo-addicted subs, and to sell them services which they offer primarily as switched broadcasts.

 

I also live in South Jersey and got this letter today. I immediately called Comcast and I have a guy coming to my house this Monday (free) to check on the Multi-Stream cable card I have in my TiVo HD. In the meantime, I still seem to be getting signals on my HD from the 100 or so channels the letter said I might lose. I suppose I could have installed this tuning adapter myself, but if they're offering a free service call so promptly, I'll take it.

 

After all support cable companies gave to install Cablecards in S3s at the beginning, call me cynical.

 

Times change and business gets tighter.
What used to be competitors now become loose partners against even more dangerous competitor - eg satellite companies.

 

The entire "Tuning Adapter Initiative", which has required over a year from conception to deliver (pretty high pace for this industry) is designed to help assuage complaints to the FCC by CableCARD-using subs and to fight off the NCTA's "Digital Cable Ready Plus" proposal. If they made it difficult to get, or charged anything more than a nominal fee, the effort would seem disingenuous.

 

Any idea if CT is Cisco or Motorola system? All Comcast STB in CT are Motorola, but I don't think Cisco makes STB.

I did not receive any letter from Comcast.

 

Cisco bought Scientific Atlantic a while back.

 

Danbury uses Scientific Atlanta (Cisco) STBs

 

So I'm asuming that if you can pick up your tuning adapter on October 6th they will start using SDV on October 6th??? Does this go for Barrington, NJ?