Comments | cellio: HD DVR with FiOS?

cellio

HD DVR with FiOS?

Jun 11, 2014 22:59

I learned a lesson about customer service in the 21st century this week. If you call a place like, say, Verizon to complain about misleading sales practices, they make some token offer like a few months of a movie channel (that you better remember to cancel later). And you'll wait on hold for a long time to get there. If, on the other hand, you ( Read more... )

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cellio June 15 2014, 23:58:13 UTC

Thanks very much, particularly for the spedcifics of the cards (M-card, and PCMCIA). I could not get anybody at Verizon to cough up buzzwords/technologies/names, only "card"... (And I didn't know if it was just "put in slot" or if it required opening the box -- was hoping the former, but you never know.)

cellio July 4 2014, 02:03:29 UTC

Now that I've gotten a new(er) TiVo via eBay I see the source of my confusion: I thought the cable feed plugged into the card (which plugs into the box), but that made the "cable in" connection totally mysterious. But they're separate operations, or so it appears (I don't have the card yet) -- cable in, and also plug in a card, and the TiVo takes the data from the former and the decryption key from the latter and makes signal come out.