Comments on: Comcast: Hurry up with TiVo Rollout!

By: Ryan McIntyre

Ryan McIntyre — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:19:10 +0000

Stewart, yeah, I’ve thought of going the Series 3 / CableCard route, but have been scared off by installation horror stories, though both you and Jud who have commented here have made it work.
But WRT CableCard, the 1.0 spec, which is the one that Series 3 uses and the only spec officially supported (2.0 is still caught up in standards-body hell) is only a one-way spec, so it doesn’t support any on-demand or two-way functionality.
The world will have to wait for CableCard 2.0 to get that, so for now, the only way to get a single DVR box with TiVo / HD Support and OnDemand support is to go with Comcast’s version…

By: Stewart Alsop

Stewart Alsop — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:23:06 +0000

I bought a cable-ready TiVo Series 3. Comcast had to install the cable card. (You would think that they could design a card that just plugs in, since it’s a standard interface.) So I had to do the whole four-hour window, truck-roll thingie. But I have an HD TiVo and no Comcast box or interface. And no DirecTivo, which has still not been upgraded for more than two years!

By: jvaleski

jvaleski — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:31:30 +0000

Of course I just installed a Tivo HD player . I’m so hooked on the Tivo peanut remote that even the Tivo software on a non-Tivo box wouldn’t quite do it for me though.

By: Craig Hughes

Craig Hughes — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:26:58 +0000

What’d be nice is if Comcast were to also enable my existing HD tivo to access the on-demand stuff… As I understand it, CableCard theoretically should let that be possible. And by building one of them Tivo applet thingies they ought to be able to fairly easily do an out-of-band TCP-based control system if they can’t do it through cablecard directly too….