My Series 3 Is On The Way
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.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:23 pm |
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?
June 4th, 2007 at 11:08 am |
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).
June 5th, 2007 at 10:04 am |
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.
June 5th, 2007 at 11:01 am |
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.