Okay, so since day one I’ve been a huge Tivo supporter. The interface on Tivo is a million times better then the DVR you get from your cable company. It’s not even close. However, this series 3 that we have is giving me grief. I’m sure I posted about this last time this happened, but it pretty much stopped working correctly again. The big problem is that this is the second time this has happened. I did all the regular trouble shooting before calling anyone. Taking out the one cable card, rebooting, swapping them, rebooting, blah blah. I deduced that one of the cable cards was bad. Not a big surprise since those things are shit anyway. So I called Comcast to schedule someone to come out and replace that cards. They were out this morning and what we found out is that it’s not the cable card at all, but the actual Tivo that’s fucked up.

This is our second series 3 Tivo. The exact same thing happened last time, and I’m starting to get really annoyed. Well, right now I’m beyond annoyed, I’m fucking furious. The fact that I’m on hold with Tivo, and they’re wait time is 15 minutes, isn’t helping.

Just got off the phone. My Tivo is fucked….again. So here’s what bothers me. I spend a bunch of money…and this fucker was a bunch of god damn money, and within a year, it dies. What does Tivo do? They send me a refurb unit. Less than a year later, that one dies too. So now, they’re sending me another refurb unit.

Let me re-iterate that…I buy something new, it doesn’t work, they send me someone elses piece of shit that didn’t work that they fixed, then that one doesn’t work, and now they’re sending me yet another persons piece of shit that didn’t work, that they fixed again. Oh, I’m over flowing with optimism about this next one.

Prior to this, I was going to try and talk Kel into getting a Tivo HD for the bedroom, but now I’m thinking fuck Tivo.