I know somewhere I can get an S3 that is not far from my price point. (Not revealing this source yet, but smart shoppers can find it so easily). So I start walking down the mental path of “Do I continue to throw my lot in with this slow box with only one tuner, when at some point in the future I might really really want a second tuner (likely) or give a flip about HD (bloody unlikely), or do I grab at what is absolutely a good offer to transfer my lifetime from this sloth?” I get far enough down that path to almost place the order (and have several times) and then a big flashing detour sign comes up. Now I’m on the “give up TTG abilities, possible forever” path. I know, I know. TiVo has every intent to enable it as soon as possible. But the simple fact is outside parties are going to be the ones making the final decision, and let’s be honest…these parties 1> don’t care about it getting enabled and 2> some of them would really like to see it NOT enabled. Furthermore, I really want that e-sata port enabled to easily add more storage, but it won’t be enabled until TTG is (for obvious reasons).

Other minor rocks on the path are the S3 has less disk space than I do (of course, this would only be until I threw a 750 gig drive in there). But on the other hand, two cable cards are still less per month than the one cable box I have (until Time Warner starts jacking up the fees).

ARGH! At least I have another month to torture myself with. B-)

Most lifetime owners didn’t upgrade and the Series 3 revenue stream is looking shaky.

Maybe if they offer a $300 rebate or something….maybe