Comments on: SDV Tuning Adapters In The Flesh

By: Angelo Iglesias

Angelo Iglesias — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:47:00 +0000

will they work with the newer cisco cable boxs?? Like the 8550HDC?

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:43:53 +0000

I got a letter from Cox Communications today regarding SDV here in Phoenix, AZ. They bumped their date back from 7.1.08 to 10.10.08 for the switch. The letter also states; “The Tuning Adapter will be provided by Cox at no charge to Cox Digital Cable customers.” The channels they list as going to SDV on the flipside of the letter seem to be channels that they deem are the least watched channels on their network. Many are the Spanish versions of other channels, ones like Fuse, G4, Logo, C-SPAN 2 & 3, etc… I will wait and see what happens as availability is listed as “later this year”. XX

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:31:41 +0000

This is just going to be too little, too late for me. I was tired of paying Time Warner for the luxury of not being able to record all the available HD channels so I canceled my cable.

Now I just use OTA with my Tivo HD and fill in the gaps with Unbox, iTunes, etc.

By: DJM

DJM — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:40:23 +0000

Does anyone know Suddenlink’s plans for SDV, particularly in the TX area? I used to have DirecTV w/ S2 SAs but switched to Suddenlink cable so I could continue to use Tivo. I love the Tivo HD but Suddenlink’s HD offerings pale in comparison to satellite.

SDV can’t come too soon for me…I’ll happily pay for a dongle to get an expanded HD selection (SciFi?!?)

By: Ian Zabel

Ian Zabel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:02:00 +0000

Welp, Cablevision finally implemented SDV in my area, and our TiVo HD no longer picks up any of the Voom channels. My wife and I actually really enjoyed about 5 of these channels, so it’s pretty annoying.

Also, our non-HDTV in the bedroom does not have cablecards, but it no longer gets a bunch of other channels which we actually continue to receive on the TiVo HD. Very odd.

I’m seriously hoping that Cablevision makes an SDV tuner available within the next 3 months, and gives it away for free, or at least very cheaply.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:38:38 +0000

chris, if you’re in SA country you’d most likely be provided the Cisco tuning adapter (also pictured above, bottom left thumbnail). Between Moto and SA/Cisco, the majority of SDV customers should be covered. I don’t know for certain, but I expect these boxes could work in other environments with proper authentication and such. But it would have to happen on the MSO end, not as a consumer. Somewhat related, I had heard a more independent vendor was producing a tuning resolver – not sure if that plan has been dumped or it’s just not ready to be discussed.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:28:18 +0000

Dave,

What I meant was will this work with cable companies in markets where they deploy SA boxes? ie: will their head-ends play nicely w/ a Motorola box.

More so, will those cable companies sell a Moto switcher box if they don’t currently sell/rent Moto products?

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:37:53 +0000

Dave, I currently rent whole season discs of shows like Weeds, Curb your Enthusiasm and flight of the conchords from Netflix. If I added Rescue Me, The Closer and South Park. Then set up an antenna for OTA broadcasts of NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS. At that point I’d just need to get a handful of shows (like the Tour de France) from the net. I’m on the edge of dumping cable TV altogether.