Comcast TiVo headed to Portland, Oregon?

Along with gigantic patches of FiOS availability, New England is also basking in the glory of having Comcast TiVo all to itself. Thankfully, all that could be changing. According to a report from a Comcast user in the Portland, Oregon area, two different installers informed him that Comcast TiVo would be making its way into the area in the not-too-distant future (read: summertime). Of course, we kinda sorta knew the technology would eventually spread from the Northeast, but we're eager to see if in fact it'll hit up any more states on its (hopeful) trip west.

[Thanks, Justin]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2008 6:32AM]

Come on Comcast. How hard is it really to get this out to more areas. It seems kind of counter-productive to just roll it out to a very, very small part of the country at a time, unless they're trying to wait out the SA boxes lifespan to move people over to Moto boxes that'll work with it.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 25th 2008 5:58PM]

It only runs on MOTO boxes? That's a shame, since I'm stuck with SA boxes and no indication that my local Comcast will EVER offer MOTO boxes. Too bad too, Comcast's SARA is just SOOOOO terrible.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2008 7:22AM]

The service is garbage anyway.. It's not TiVO, it's still a moto or sara box. Slow menus and a monthly fee FTL.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2008 12:12PM]

Standalone TiVo has a much higher monthly fee. I'm on Cox, and I'm just hoping to get the software for the suggestions and search by keyword. Those alone would be more than worth a couple bucks a month for me.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2008 10:40AM]

As he was installing my cablecards my ComCast installer made two comments

1) The Comcast Tivo thing sucks
2) oh, TIVOHD is now only 250 or less? I'll have to pick one up

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2008 10:43AM]

I live in Western Mass , no Comcast Tivo in my area still

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2008 1:21PM]

I live in Portland and would rather have SciFi HD than this... especially before BSG starts back up.