Comcast To Charge $2.95 Monthly For Tivo Service

Well we finally have pricing for when Comcast rolls out Tivo to your neck of the woods, and like we thought, Tivo will be treated like a premium service. Comcast will be rolling out the Tivo UI on those crappy ass Motorola/Scientific Atlanta for $2.95 extra a month. Or you can keep that horrid Motorola/Scientific Atlanta UI that we've had to endure in order to have an HD DVR. Comcast will download the UI to your current DVR, so the change should be painless. I think $2.95 a month is a small price to pay to keep your sanity when searching for when your favorite show will air.

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Comcast Tivo In The Wild.

Well you lucky New England bastards!!!

First your football team is kicking all forms of ass, and now you get the first roll out of Comcast Tivo's. Yes New England is the first city to get the highly anticipated Comcast Tivo software roll out to the crappy ass DVR's that most people have had to use. It even comes with the famous peanut Tivo remote that I fell in love with. Of course this will be a premium service that Comcast provides, which means that you'll pay dearly for it. But with the choice of that sucky ass Motorola UI and the beautiful Tivo UI, you won't have a problem coming up with the extra cash.

No word on pricing or when this will be available to the rest of us.

[EngadgetHD]

Comcast TiVo Rollout Is Delayed

The engagement between Comcast and TiVo has been a slow developing relationship that hasn't shown much fruit. And now word comes from TiVo's CEO Tom Rogers that the rollout for TiVo UI on Comcast's crappy ass Motorola DVR is behind schedule.

Really?!

We could not have guessed that one since it's been almost 2 years when they announced that they would be rolling out the UI on top of their current DVR. Which essentially gives you a TiVo without having to buy a TiVo. The UI was scheduled to be out in September, but right now it is being tested by Comcast employees. Rogers says "We're waiting for word any time now that the first non-Comcast employee will begin to get the service,".

Well lets hope so!!!

[Reuters]

Series 3 Lite, Comcast Motorola Tivo annouced today

Tivo had some good news to report today on a couple of different fronts.

Finally Tivo has seen the error of their ways and has announced its Series 3 Lite -- a 'lower priced' HD offering targeting a wider audience when it's released sometime "later this year."

Also announced was the August commercial launch of the Comcast Motorola TiVo -- no, really -- initially rolling out in the New England division meaning Boston and vicinity will have first dibs.

I've been waiting to jump to Comcast once they introduce this Motorola Tivo that has been talked about for the last two years.

So this is good news for me.
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