They give it to you at no charge if required. If you aren't missing half of your channels, you don't need it. Charter notified me about a month in advance to set up an appointment when they rolled it out here a few months ago. The initial installation went well, it worked 95%, it was that last 5% that had the issue.
I did a quick check on what channels I lose without the tuning adapter, it's a lot, but not all. Generally speaking it's the less watched channels, the major networks were still there, all the analog channels still work, but it's the cable only networks that seemed to be on SDV. Charter knows who has cable cards, it's generally a short list of the customers, and only those with cable cards need a tuning adapter (and not even all of them). Generally speaking, the tuning adapter simply talks to Charter's system, letting them know what channel you wish to watch at any given time, the system responds by passing that channel and telling the tuning adapter info so that Tivo can tune to it properly. Tivo can't talk to the system, hence the need for the tuning adapter. And this is ONLY if they have implemented SDV, and while it's been around for 4 years or more, it's not implemented everywhere. Glen ----- Original Message ----- From: "s.l-c.o" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] New problems... and final updates > Can this be purchased or rented from Charter? >
