I would have thought that Tivo would have given the cable companies a heads up

They did. Repeatedly. The fact of the matter is that the cable companies don't know shit.

Plus the Tivo Series 3 is missing important features like TivoToGo and multiroom viewing!

While I agree that not having these suck, they had to remove this from the S3 (at least temporarily) in order to use CableCards at all. CableLabs is anal about this kind of thing. TiVo claims they're still trying to see what they can do on this front though, and I expect people will have hacks to do it in <6 months.

The bugs that ship with the Series 3 are an unwelcome surprise too.

Care to provide a reference? Or just baseless invective, like your other points?

Considering how high the price is, Tivo probably doesn't have that many unhappy customers.

Which is why they're backordered. Right.

And yes, I plan to transfer at least one lifetime sub to a S3. In theory I should be able to recoup the costs of the transfer fee (which sucks IMO) by selling the old S2 on eBay.

Well, Tivo sent all the Cable Operators a letter in July. Does that count as notice?

http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/19/tivo-tells-fcc-cable-operators-to-expect-series-3-boxes-soon/

PDF of the letter:

http://tinyurl.com/lr9jp

The issue with the cable companies not prividing or not knowing how to provide cable cards to Tivo users is a big legal deal. It apparently is the cable companies fault. I would have thought that Tivo would have given the cable companies a heads up, but apparently they were depending on the end users to do that for them. More fun that way I guess. Surprise cable companies!

Surprise Tivo lots of unhappy customers!

Plus the Tivo Series 3 is missing important features like TivoToGo and multiroom viewing!

Surprise Tivo lots of unhappy customers!

The bugs that ship with the Series 3 are an unwelcome surprise too.

Surprise Tivo lots of unhappy customers!

How much does this headache cost? $800.00. Considering how high the price is, Tivo probably doesn't have that many unhappy customers.

This comment was edited on Sep 21, 16:34.