ITGuy72
Permanently Disco
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join:2001-11-01
New York
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Re: Cable cards??
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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jvanbrecht
join:2007-01-08
Bowie, MD | 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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fuziwuzi
Not born yesterday
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join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA
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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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