Just got TIVO downloaded to my Comcast box. It is definitely not ready for prime time. On Demand freezes indefinitely. Comcast says they are having server problems for TIVO subscribers with On Demand. When you switch tuners during live programming it plays live for a few seconds then skips back about ten seconds and starts again. And it is accompanied by tiling. I may go back to the generic DVR until they get the bugs worked out.
The deployment issue is part of why Comcast is starting out in NE only. There's a lot of active development going on to improve the quality of service. Ultimately TiVoHD/Series3 is still a better, more mature product (in no small part because TiVo got to design the hardware instead of using Moto STBs). However, having used both the original Comcast DVR software and the TiVo software, it's way better than the old one IMO.
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Just got TIVO downloaded to my Comcast box. It is definitely not ready for prime time. On Demand freezes indefinitely. Comcast says they are having server problems for TIVO subscribers with On Demand. When you switch tuners during live programming it plays live for a few seconds then skips back about ten seconds and starts again. And it is accompanied by tiling. I may go back to the generic DVR until they get the bugs worked out.
The deployment issue is part of why Comcast is starting out in NE only. There's a lot of active development going on to improve the quality of service. Ultimately TiVoHD/Series3 is still a better, more mature product (in no small part because TiVo got to design the hardware instead of using Moto STBs). However, having used both the original Comcast DVR software and the TiVo software, it's way better than the old one IMO.