My Series 3 TiVo Is Here And I’m Setting It Up Right Now
My free Series 3 TiVo is here! Right now I am going through the process of setting it up. I haven’t spoke with Time Warner yet so, as of right now, I am setting it up with basic cable (NTSC only). I plan on give TWC a call either later tonight or sometime tomorrow to setup an appointment for them to install two CableCARDs (wish me luck). I also plan on using my antenna for over the air HD content (I’m not setting it up now because something is wrong with my antenna).
When I first placed the order for my S3, a confirmation email from TiVo said that it could take up to ten weeks for the DVR to arrive. Luckily for me, it only took TiVo eight days!
I’ll post more late tonight or tomorrow when I get some free time. For now, I just wanted to let everybody know that my Series 3 has arrived. I also would like to thank everybody who gave me enough referrals for this DVR. I really do appreciate it.
How are you going to transfer your old Tivo’s settings (e.g., Season Passes) to the new Tivo? Is that even possible?
Good luck with TWC! Quite curious to hear how that goes.
I don’t expect it to be easy. I may record my conversation so that other can hear how difficult/easy it is to get CableCARD out of TWC.
It is not possible to automatically transfer your season passes to a new TiVo. But like all things TiVo, it is extremely easy to setup a Season Pass so I’m not too worried about it. I think this would be a nice feature for TiVo to add….
What are S3 capabilities in high resolution recordings? Can it record 1080i? 1080p?
As far as I know, it can record both 1080i and 720p content only.
HD ANTENNAS FAN;
As far as I know, HDTV broadcasts are only 720p/1080i.
The S3 records in several resolutions, including those 2 (which are almost identical). In the settings, I didn’t see an “1080p” option, but again, I don’t think any shows broadcast in that.
At least not yet.