After two more days of getting bounced around by reps, the exec office in Massachusetts rings him up and arranges an install appointment—the very first in the Boston area, he's told. Not just one, but two installers AND a supervisor. They are serious cable company. Anyways, they had to hunt down and pull an old signal filter, since it was diluting the signal, preventing Steve's DVR from downloading the fresh new TiVo software. But thirty minutes later, it was done.

So what's it like once it's setup? Well, it isn't an HD TiVo, so the interface doesn't fill up the whole screen, it just kinda floats in the center of a widescreen HDTV. But everything else works (except for "Groups,") and particularly cool is that all of the old TV shows stay on the box, even after the upgrade. Okay, the update itself is pretty painless, but you still need a day off of work, and hopefully Comcast will get better at this with some practice. [Off on a Tangent via TiVo Blog]