Credit: Steve Garfield CC BY-NC-SA
It’s been over two years since Comcast announced that its DVR boxen would be getting the TiVo treatment, with nothing materializing yet. That is, of course, unless your name is Steve Garfield, of the Boston area, in which case your DVR is now a TiVo.
Garfield is apparently the first customer in the country to get the upgrade, and things are going about how you’d expect things would for the early adopter: poor support, buggy software, and an all-around headache.
But the fact is, the upgrades are rolling out, so when do we expect the service in, say, Seattle? We have no idea, and I’m tired of waiting for my Comcast rep to call me back.
First reports of the Comcast-TiVo box [PVR blog]
Hi,
Thanks for the mention.
Please link my photo to it’s original place of origin so people can see it’s Creative commons license. It’s CC BY-NC-SA
Also, that way people can leave comments.
Thanks,
–Steve
Original photo is here:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/12/26/comcast-tivo-finally-in-the-wild-your-upgrade-coming-soon/
OOps.
Here is the original photo on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/2126643142/
Thanks.
–Steve
Thanks Steve! And nice work!
Also, I was the first customer in Boston to get the upgrade according to the technicians who installed it. NOT the first in the country.
I have a friend who’s an engineer at Tivo out here in Northern Cali. Told me not to hold my breath waiting for that Comcast upgrade - it’s gonna be a slooooooow rollout, particularly in high-demand areas like the SF Bay Area (where I am). AT&T U-Verse suddenly looks attractive …
Please, please credit the photo as:
Credit: Steve Garfield CC BY-NC-SA
Now it’s been copied from here over on SlashGear without the correct Creative Commons attribution.
http://www.slashgear.com/comcast-and-tivo-partnership-finally-rolls-out-a-product-269213.php
Thanks for adding the attribution.
“poor support”
No, that isn’t a first adopter thing. That’s a comcast thing. HTH! =)