MZ, I ran through the Guided Setup again with only the one card in but it didn't seem to make any difference as far as pulling in any more channels, anything past 99, so apparently each card was still pulling in channels. The one they removed was apparently accepting all the digital, HD & premium channels. It must have been ~that~ card because I was getting most of these channels when it was there, albeit intermittently. If that's the case it makes me wonder how it could have been a defective slot in the TiVo?
>Yep. If you only have one card in an S3, then you only have one usable tuner. Each tuner needs a card to decrypt encrypted channels. And if the unit was configured with two cards in place, pulling a card could confuse it a bit. You might want to re-run Guided Setup with the one card in place. The cards have nothing to do with quality. Well, one possibility. If your cable system is doing ADS - Analog-Digital Simulcast - where the same content is sent on an analog channel *and* a digital channel, WITH a card the unit can use the digital content, but WITHOUT a card it'll use the analog content. And the digital content (not HD, just digital) can look better. Since you're getting a new TiVo I would not have Charter come back to put a card in the current box. Just live with one tuner (re-run Guided Setup with the one card installed) until you have the new box. It just isn't worth trying to deal with a box that will be replaced.< >No, all TiVo's are recorders - that's what they do. The TiVo HD is just a newer, lower priced model in their lineup. Software-wise it has all the same features as the Series3, the hardware is just different.< The reason I asked about that is because the S2 I have is a DVD burner & a DVD Player, whereas the S3 is not. I had to purchase a separate DVD Player. I just have to learn what all the terms mean when I speak :)But they have removed that feature from the TiVo box. Thanks for your continued support, Sandra
