I really must be the luckiest person around, at least in terms of cableCARD. I had heard all of the horror stories but decided I really needed a Tivo HD. I went to my local cable office and made an appointment for installation of a multistream card. The people in the local office were amazingly friendly and made an appointment for the next day. The tech came out and told me, flat out, that he had done about 30 cableCARD installs and only 3 had worked. Put the card in, made the phone call, and it just worked. All the HD channels, both tuners, everything.
So it's possible, at least if the stars are aligned just so.
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I really must be the luckiest person around, at least in terms of cableCARD. I had heard all of the horror stories but decided I really needed a Tivo HD. I went to my local cable office and made an appointment for installation of a multistream card. The people in the local office were amazingly friendly and made an appointment for the next day. The tech came out and told me, flat out, that he had done about 30 cableCARD installs and only 3 had worked. Put the card in, made the phone call, and it just worked. All the HD channels, both tuners, everything.
So it's possible, at least if the stars are aligned just so.