Reader David commented on a previous post that Time Warner Cable of San Antonio, TX has a link to order a free Tuning Adapter to enable SDV on TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, or TiVo HD XL units. The order...personally suspect it will be sooner rather than later, especially as Comcast is already deploying Tuning Adapters . Is anyone else seeing Time Warner offer Tuning Adapter pre-orders in their area

Last Friday TiVoCommunity member jtmal0723 received a letter from Comcast informing him that they'd begin offering the Tuning Adapter for Switched Digital Video channels this Monday, October 6th. And... before it happens? Shocking! Meanwhile users of Time Warner and other systems that have been using SDV for a long time are still waiting for the TA to be available. Picked up via EngadgetHD

In a filing yesterday with the FCC on the current status on CableCARD deployments the NCTA revealed that there have been a total of over 374,000 CableCARDs deployed for use in Unidirectional Digital...installs are self-install, which is negligible. 6 The average is $2.26, but they report most divisions are $1.75 - which must mean the remaining divisions are rather higher to bring the average up

The Motorola MTR700 and the Cisco STA1520 , which we knew were slated for Wave 60 certification testing at the end of June, have both passed, as reported by Multichannel News . With both major vendors'...all implementing SDV, the TAs will be increasingly important. Pricing for customers is not yet known, except for Cox which announced plans to provide the TAs to their customers free of charge

When I reported on the release of the 9.4 software for the TiVo Series3 & TiVo HD on Tuesday, I speculated on whether the update also included the promised YouTube support . Well, that question has...video between TiVo units, or from a PC to a TiVo. I'm still waiting to receive 9.4 myself, can't wait to play with this. (And no Dave, you're not the only one still waiting for Tekzilla. ;-)

TiVo has long had the practice of trickling new updates out to a small number of users before officially deploying the update. It is a kind of feeler, one last check to make sure there are not major issues...and only enabling them later when the new feature launches. The priority page hasn't been updated yet for 9.4, but it probably will be soon. Thanks to Dave Zatz of Zatz Not Funny for the heads up

The TV Barn blog has posted a letter Time Warner Cable sent out to customers in Kansas City, MO. It announces that they intend to begin migrating "lesser-viewed channels" to SDV beginning August 20,...mysterious ways. Expect to see more and more of these letters over he coming months as more cable MSOs turn to SDV to add capacity for the growing volume of HD content, as well as additional channels

Reader Rob Brooks-Bilson sent me a tip about a letter he'd received from Cox Communications in Phoenix, AZ, which he posted about in his blog and scanned into PDF . The big news is that Cox will be...of June, hopefully the gap will be a short one. But in any case it is nice to know they'll be offering the TA for free. Hopefully this will be across all of Cox's systems and not limited to Phoenix

TiVo and the NCTA have dropped a press release announcing their progress in developing the SDV Tuning Adapter - as the Motorola and Cisco boxes recently seen at The Cable Show. SInce this is a critical...consumers. Source: TiVo Inc. CONTACT: Michael Boccio, +1-212-446-1867, mboccio@sloanepr.com, for TiVo Inc.; or Brian Dietz of NCTA, +1-202-222-2350, bdietz@ncta.com Web site: http://www.tivo.com/

Following up on his report on the Motorola MTR700 , Ben Drawbaugh of EngadgetHD has posted photos of the corresponding Cisco/Scientific Atlanta STA1520 Tuning Adapter . While Motorola's TA was part of...has the same connections, the Cisco box is physically much larger than the Motorola TA. And while Motorola indicated that their TA could be available to cable MSOs in July, Cisco is only saying 3Q2008