> Ok, thanks for your help. I went ahead and ordered an S3. When I'm > notified that it has shipped, I'll make an appt. with Time Warner Cable to > install the cablecards (I think TW requires that a tech set them up).
Not everywhere. Here in Houston, TW will let you pick up CC at a service outlet. I picked up two, no questions asked. Installed them myself, following the instructions that came with the S3. However, I haven't heard of many cities where TW allows this. And a heads up: I was having some minor problems, where only some channels would record properly. Turned out one CC was bad, and wouldn't "hold" its authorization from TW to allow scrambled content (ie, all pay channels--HBO, etc). Because of two tuners, and one card working correctly, *most* of the time everything recorded. Sometimes it wouldn't. Took me a couple days to realize it was a bad CC. Make sure and test your CC channels (under Settings). Once I switched out the defective CC, it has been nothing but blue skies . . . Stuart --------- Sony Bravia 40XBR3 LCD HD-TV S3 HD-TiVo S2 TiVo SA8300HD SA8000
