Premiere Tivos Next HD DVR

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Sad thing is Cable Cards from what I have read and the feel I got are going away.

Premiere, TiVo's Next HD DVR Possibly Revealed in Instruction Manual Mix Up - Comcast premieer dvr - Gizmodo


When Patrick McCarron received his new TiVo HD, he noticed something odd about the included instructions. They were explaining how to "setup TiVo Premiere or Premiere XL." Could this be a sneak peek at TiVo's newest hardware?

According to McCarron, the DVR described in the instructions appears to be a "revised Series 3/HD model aimed to lower production costs." He explains that:

The main differences I can see is that It features only one Cablecard slot, which is said to be for Multi-Stream Cards only. It no longer has the S-video output and phone jack. It also seems a bit shorter than than the TiVo HD is, judging by the spacing of the component video jacks. The second page also shows the TiVo software's CableCard UI with just the single slot on the screen, which is clear this is for a device with just one CableCard slot.
 
The only reason the original series 3 had 2 cable card slots is that multi stream cable cards were not working when it was released. Now one cable card can do more than one channel at a time, so no need for 2 slots.
 

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