SDV (Switched Digital Video) Tuning Adapter In The Wild
Well…well…well…ask and you shall receive. Just two days ago I asked if anybody knew anything about the SDV tuning adapter that I so desperately need. After the post was published for only ten minutes, I was pleased to find out that Comast in New Jersey had announced that tuning adapters would be available on Oct. 6th (today). Thankfully, the same commenter (Jesse T. Maloney) stopped by again today to let us know that he has one of the adapters and that it seems to be working! Along with this comment, Jesse has also started a thread on TiVoCommunity.com where he uploaded a couple of images showing the adapter connected to his TiVo (spotted on engadgetHD).
Because of all this news, I went ahead and contacted my local TWC office today however, the person that I spoke with didn’t have any information available. Hopefully the Comcast rollout means that we’ll start to see other cable providers offer adapters sometime in the near future. Has anybody else received an SDV dongle or is Jesse the only one?
October 7th, 2008 at 11:58 am |
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October 8th, 2008 at 7:42 pm |
wow that box is big. i thought it would be something smaller, maybe the size of a router or something. also whats the word, is comcast charging for this box? it wouldnt surprise me if the cable companies try to charge us twice for something.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:23 pm |
Comcast is not charging for this box, at least, not at this time anyways…
Alex, I refer you to http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=6753106&posted=1#post6753106 for some screenshots.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:27 pm |
Here’s some more photos if anyone’s interested: http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w252/jtmal0723/tuning_resolver/
October 16th, 2008 at 8:28 pm |
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