fuziwuzi
Not born yesterday
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join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA
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Re: Cable cards??
said by ITGuy72  :Cable Video on Demand. You cannot do that with a Series 3 currently. Also, until the 'dongle' comes out, any switched video channels will not work on the Series 3. TiVO is readying a SDV adapter for their boxes. As to VOD, I think demand for that is highly overrated. I had a Comcast DVR for 2.5 years, with VOD. I tried the VOD several times and found it to be more of a nuisance than anything useful. It was exceptionally slow to respond in the menus (just checking to see the available programs or a program description could take minutes, it was very frustrating to press a button to see the description, wait a minute for it to finally show, then wait another minute to back up to the previous menu, etc..) By the time you waited and waited and waited for the menus to appear, you were too frustrated to enjoy watching anything. Then, when you were watching, the forward/reverse/pause were anything but "instant". They were a "sometime" item. After a few tries of using Comcast's VOD, I gave up and never tried it again. |
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magnushsi
join:2002-11-06
Cedar Springs, MI | reply to jmurray
CableCards support SDV just fine...One way hosts (i.e. Tivo) that some people put them in do not. |
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maxpower
join:2006-10-09
Providence, RI | reply to jvanbrecht
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The monthly costs will be lower, and you do not have to deal with the limitations set by comcast, and the inevitable limitations cox will set.
What limitations set by Comcast? |
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jmurray
join:2001-11-13
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Switched Digital Video isn't supported on cable cards yet, and is using this in some markets all ready, like Fairfax county. Without support for this TIVO can't access many of the channels. This may be resolved if the adapter box for SDV, that has been promised ever comes out. But who knows how long it will be until the next new technology(MPEG4?) breaks TIVO's access to cable programing, and TIVO users are stuck waiting for another upgrade. |
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jvanbrecht
join:2007-01-08
Bowie, MD | reply to ITGuy72
I came from Directv when I switched to FIOS.. I could care less about VOD, never really had it, so I won't miss it. |
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ITGuy72
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join:2001-11-01
New York
1 edit | reply to jvanbrecht
Cable Video on Demand. You cannot do that with a Series 3 currently. Also, until the 'dongle' comes out, any switched video channels will not work on the Series 3. |
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fuziwuzi
Not born yesterday
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join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA | reply to jvanbrecht
That's my thought, too. I'd rather have a full TiVO that does everything a TiVO is supposed to do rather than a crippled hybrid. |
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jvanbrecht
join:2007-01-08
Bowie, MD
| Since they all supposedly support cable cards (although you may have to argue with them to get them), what is the point of using (atleast in comcasts case) of the comcast hardware with the tivo software at around $23 a month.. when you can probably rent to cable cards and buy an S3 (initial outlay of cost is more) or HD Tivo. The monthly costs will be lower, and you do not have to deal with the limitations set by comcast, and the inevitable limitations cox will set. |
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