Tivo Talks With The FCC

More then one or two owners have been denied CableCards for their series 3 TiVos. Zatz talks about their frustration in dealing with Cable companies and also posts a letter that TiVo sent to the FCC. It seems to be a mixed bag of results when trying to get a CableCard for a 3rd party device, I guess it depends on the installer and the local branch of the Cable company.

From the article:

I experienced a great deal of pain and frustration at Comcast’s hands in getting
my S3 up and running. If I wasn’t a blogger, I might have gave up on CableCARDs
after multiple visits and numerous phone calls — they fought me every
step of the way, and the few times they did try to help they were largely
clueless how their own equipment, services, and billing work.