My Series 3 has been giving me problems. I was hoping it was the hard
drive, so I put it a new Terabyte drive with the TiVo info already on it.
Everything seems to be working perfectly, no more flickering (which is what
my old drive was doing). I just had to go thru all the setup again. No
problems.

Until I noticed my premium channels (HBO Showtime) did not work. when I put
one of those channels on, the TiVo went to the cable card screen. Stating
that I need to call Comcast for this to work...
ALL, my other channels worked fine, HD and SD...

So, I called Comcast,
Yeah, they knew what they were doing!

All the excuses like:
cable cards do not worth with TiVo...
They must be fried...
Something must be wrong with the TiVo...
Call TiVo...

It worked perfectly for 2 years, and now all of a sudden my premium channels
don't work???!!
$^#^%*&% )(*&(*^%%^#^% 9*&(*^(^**%$&!

After talking HOURS with 6 different people from Comcast on the phone, they
said they have to send a tech.

Of course, when the tech came by the next morning he said he don't real know
anything about cable cards, AND don't have any on the truck.
I tried to keep cool, ($#^$#@#@%^&&*%)
I said you probably will NOT need new cards, you just need to call in
numbers...

After hours of him giving numbers, still nothing, so he yanked out the cards
to start fresh, now I have almost NOTHING working, maybe 5 or 10
channels....

Anyone know WHY this is a big problem?
Maybe cause it is Sunday and all the know-nothings are working?

It is a Series 3 and from what I read the M-card will work, but I will need
2 of them, is this true?

The tech said the M-cards configure SOoo much easier...

Ron