Comments on: NCTA & TiVo Announce SDV Dongle For 2008

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:24:56 +0000

Awesome pre-announce! Maybe we will see this infamous tuning adaptor by 2010 or 2011? Get with the friggin’ program!!!! I love Tivo, but this whole BS of waiting for this adaptor is seriously killing me … I had to go get a crappy TW box just to watch a PPV event (UT football) and some HD channels that are SDV now. COME ON GUYS!!!!!!!!!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:33:50 +0000

Andy,

I got the news from Time Warner when I called and asked what their position on SDV was. At the time (June maybe?) Austin, Charlotte, and one other place were being tested, according to the person I spoke with. I can’t remember the third city, but it wasn’t SD. However, my understanding is that many more cities are using it now, and that number will be growing rapidly. (Sorry about the late response).

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By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:26:58 +0000

@Andy
You might want to try and call twc. In my area there are two channels that are using ADC.

By: Heath

Heath — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:10:10 +0000

I live in SD and have a series 3 and Time warner is using SDV in San Diego. the new CWHD station is on SDV, and a few others that I don’t care about. But I get all the locals and hbo etc, just no CWHD with smallville.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:22:40 +0000

Jeff, How do you know whether you are in a “Time Warner SDV test market”? I have Series2 with digital cable box, but would like to move to TiVo HD soon. I am in San Diego. How do I know whether I will suffer from SDV if I make the switch to TiVo HD with CableCARD?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:47:45 +0000

I for one am ecstatic about this news. I live in a Time-Warner’s test market for SDV, so I’ve been living with the TW HD-DVR for HD content, and using my Series 2 for everything else. It’s a nightmare setup, but I refuse to use the POS TW box full-time.

SDV was the one thing that was preventing me from upgrading my TiVo to HD. Now I won’t have to worry about that. Well, in six months I won’t.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:08:42 +0000

Does this mean I am going to have to add a 2 way splitter back behind my TiVo or will it be an “in-line” device?. I was so happy to get rid of the splitter when we got the series 3 with cablecards. If I go back to the splitter I loose 3.5dB of my already crappy cable signal.
Will we need two of these to record 2 cable programs at the same time? There is only 1 spare USB if we are using the wireless receiver.
Since my local Charter Cable Co. are so slow at adding HD channels, I’m hoping I won’t need this any time soon.