I just received an email from TiVo letting me know that my Series 3 TiVo is on its way. I guess it isn’t going to take 10 weeks like TiVo had initially said.
Now I need to get on the phone with Time Warner cable and setup a service call so that they can install two CableCARDs. Wish me luck….
Great news ! Your TiVo Store order was shipped on 05/29/2007. Depending on your choice of shipping methods, it may take four to six days for your order to arrive.
How exciting! Do you have anything worked out to let you get TWC’s Video On Demand & PPV with TiVo? We just moved and wound up switching from DirecTiVo (loved it) to TWC’s DVR (hate it!) but we hate to lose Video on Demand. Curious if there’s a workaround for this?
As far as I know, there is no work around to getting vod on a Series 3. CableCARD 1.0 allows for one way communication so vod, guide and potentially other services won’t work. CableCARD 2.0 is two-way however, I don’t think there are any cable companies that support it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD).
Ahh, thank you, that explains it. Are you just forgoing these features then? Or using the TiVo in combination with a cable box? It sounds like depending on the TWC location, they do or do not charge you extra each month per cablecard.
I plan on forgoing those features since I don’t currenlty use them anyways. I figure the additional features that the s3 provides far outway not having vod and ppv. As far as the cost is concerned, I’m pretty sure there is a monthly rental fee but I haven’t talked to TWC yet so I don’t have any details. Stay tuned…I may call TWC tonight.