Thanks to ZatzNotFunny, I just discovered that Comcast has plans to rollout their Comcast TiVo service in the Chicago market. According to today’s conference call, Comcast plans on offering Comcast TiVo DVRs sometime in the first quarter of next year. Up until now, the DVR has only been available in the New England market.
We are rolling out TiVo beyond the Boston market test, where things are going quite well and we are going to be introducing other cities, probably starting with Chicago in the first quarter next year.
So would interested customers need a brand new box from Comcast or will the TiVo functionality be downloaded to existing cable boxes upon request?
Mark,
The cool thing about the Comcast TiVo is that the TiVo software is downloaded to your existing DVR.
Re:”The cool thing about the Comcast TiVo is that the TiVo software is downloaded to your existing DVR.”
The bad thing about that is that Comcast DVR capacity will remain paltry. (sigh)