Anyone who is good at connecting electronics

You want your binky, ijaggy? You want your baba?

Oh, like you were five. My bad.

 

wow. just in case he gets cold feet.

 

I have now been on the phone with Comcast for 32 minutes. First, they had no record of me even having a cable box. Then they sent me to IT. Then they connected me with someone else. Then she was going to send me to the "Tivo department" but sent me to someone in IT, who then sent me to someone in the Tivo department.

Now, Heath, kind fellow that he is, works in the Tivo department at Comcast. But he just dropped this nugget on me: "I don't think any of our boxes have that (serial port). I know our customers connect their Tivos to our boxes, I just don't know how."

THEN WHY IN THE HELL DO YOU WORK IN THE TIVO DEPARTMENT? WHAT OTHER PURPOSE CAN YOU POSSIBLY SERVE?

Doing this on four hours sleep is not my best move.

 

Be careful, if you connect that incorrectly you might create a mini-black hole.

 

Eh, add it to the pile.

 

OK, the final (I hope) update: The only boxes Comcast offers with the thing I need are the DVRs, which I don't want. So I'm just going to buy the IR cable I had at the last place, which takes 5 seconds to change the channel (Tivo changes, then it has to relay it to the cable box, which then changes). It sucks, but it's better than canceling Tivo, starting up DVR service and losing access to all I have on Tivo.

Boo. But Yay!

 

Hmmm ... sounds like the folks at Comcast are worried they'll encourage you to use something that takes away from their bottom line. Color me shocked that they're not being very helpful.

Surely, you can't be the first person they've dealt with that prefers TiVo to their DVR ...

 

Well, sadly, I'm at their mercy.