TWC finally has my Tuning Adapter - My TiVo Celebrates

I got a letter today from Time Warner Cable, which gives a phone number that I should call within 60 days of receiving the letter. I guess if you forget and don’t call in the allotted time, your shit out of luck.

So I call and talk to someone who will remain nameless. He tells me the people who handle SDV tuning adapters are out to lunch:) and will call me back. I give him my number and they actually called me back 3 hours later. They said I was pretty high on the list of people getting this device sooner than later, and said they would call me within 2 days to set up a time to pick one up.

For those that don’t know what this tuning adapter is, I wrote about it back in February. The problem with my TiVo is that it uses CableCards that are not compatible with the new Switched Digital Video (“SDV”) which is something that TWC is turning to so they can cram more bandwidth down the pipe.

There are dozens of HD channels that they have switched over, so I’m unable to tune them in until I plug in this new tuning adapter.

Update on Monday, March 30, 2009 at 9:16PM by Jon Arnason

After a couple of visits by TWC technicians, my TA seems to be behaving itself.  It could be that the first one had a bad USB port on it, which kept telling my TiVo that a tuning adapter was just installed.  This would happen during show viewings, and that was getting quite bothersome.  So far so good today.