Since the S3 (and S2 and TiVoHD) all have USB, an external box is not out of the question. A special TiVo-branded docsis modem to communicate directly with the headend is certainly a possibility.pmiranda said:An FPGA is not an RF transmitter. It might be able to control one, but there's no transmitter to control. The best hope to upstream communication is for there to be enough TiVos that the cableco's allow them to communicate with the headend via the internet. Otherwise you need new hardware.
honestly all the going back and forth just confuses me on this.pmiranda said:An FPGA is not an RF transmitter. It might be able to control one, but there's no transmitter to control. The best hope to upstream communication is for there to be enough TiVos that the cableco's allow them to communicate with the headend via the internet. Otherwise you need new hardware.
This is probably what it'll end up being. You'll get a USB box that has coax in and screws onto the back of the S3/TiVoHD's cable input jack. It'll contain the transmitter for upstream communication. Or something like that.Saturn said:Since the S3 (and S2 and TiVoHD) all have USB, an external box is not out of the question. A special TiVo-branded docsis modem to communicate directly with the headend is certainly a possibility.
Getting the cable companies (and cable labs) to support it is an entirely different beast.