Reviews:
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Unhappy TA user I owned a Series2 TiVo for many years, and eventually bought a TiVoHD for a second TV. Not long after, TWC in my area rolled out SDV and put a lot of the popular HD channels on their SDV circuit (SciFi HD and Science HD were the two I watched the most) and forced me to get a TA.
Obtaining my first TA wasn't too bad to obtain and setup. However, I quickly noticed that the TA (Cisco STA1520) had become my new weakest link in my TiVo setup. It stopped working every other week, requiring me to restart all my devices to bring it back up. Then every 2 months or so, it just stopped working. I would spend at least an hour on support calls trying to reflash my CableCards to get it to work, and every time I required a TWC tech to visit my house and replace the device.
After my fourth TA bit the dust, I decided enough is enough. TiVo wasn't worth this much work in the end. So I began building a custom HTPC solution (Sage TV using ATSC tuners and HD-PVRs) and gave up TiVo.
It's really sad. The TA boxes generated a great deal of extra heat in my bedroom and were just not as reliable as they should be. They were the undoing of my TiVo experience in the end. I would like to go back to using CableCards if I could, but the TA is a big LOSE for me. Hopefully someone (FCC?) fixes this in the end. |
