Thanx for the reply MZ...

So a tech will be coming back tomorrow.
Their plan is to bring 2 NEW cards and start from scratch.
Is there anything I should help or show him to make things go smoother?

They usually have that "I already know" attitude...

Ron



> -----Original Message-----
> From: tivocentral@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:tivocentral@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of MegaZone
> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 6:19 PM
> To: tivocentral@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] Comcast Cable Card nightmare...
>
> Once upon a time Ron Koms shaped the electrons to say...
> > 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...
>
> I don't think any pairing info is stored on the drive, so
> this may be coincidence, but it does sound like the cards we
> not paired correctly.
>
> > 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....
>
> So they definitely screwed up the pairing.
>
> > Anyone know WHY this is a big problem?
>
> Sounds like you got bad support, it shouldn't be hard at all.
>
> > 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...
>
> The tech is high, pairing is identical for S-Cards and
> M-Cards. But yes, you can use two S-Cards or two M-Cards.
> M-Cards fall back to to acting like S-Cards in host devices
> without multistream support - like the S3. So the end result
> is the same.
>
> -MZ
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