Comcast TiVo headed to Chicago next

By way of Dave Zatz comes news from Comcast's Q3 earnings call that Chicago will soon be home to not only tru2way, but also the Comcast TiVo option. Less optimistically mentioned is a CNET writer already choosing to abandon the service after finding TiVo's software slower and less reliable than Comcast's native DVR software, a possibility many would consider impossible. Hopefully a dash of tru2way (or a new advertisement, embedded after the break) could be just what it needs to improve the user experience -- and speed up this agonizingly slow rollout.

[Via Zatz Not Funny]

[PeterFnet Posted Oct 29th 2008 5:56PM]

I can barely get Comcast IL to admit there are cablecards, this is going to be a rough ride.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2008 11:36PM]

I like the commerical. But that is really stupid to engineer the tivo software to run ontop of the comcrap interface that just slows it down. Why not just write the code from scratch so it can run on its own

[The Dead Marxist Trio Posted Oct 30th 2008 1:41AM]

comcast TiVo is the worst software I've ever used. it bricked FIVE of my boxes in a month before I ditched it. Literally 20-30 seconds after setting recordings before I could use it again. Sometimes even just pressing guide. I was actually ecstatic going back to regular DVR. This was two months ago. It's not gonna get much better until they write it from the ground up for their DVRhd boxes.

Fuck comcast, but I literally have no other choice. Fios plz?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 25th 2009 6:53PM]

A Comcast representative at Abt Electronics told me that Comcast will most likely drop TiVo because they "just could not get it to work."