How many different S3s are there? And how different are they?
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§ ita § - Mar 04, 2010 9:53:59 am PST #13177 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Mar 04, 2010 9:54:48 am PST #13178 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think there's just the HD and the HD XL. The only difference between those two is the size of the hard drive.
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2010 9:58:18 am PST #13179 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm pretty sure I have two CableCards in mine, though.
Getting 1TB of storage tomorrow. Very excited. No S4 for me anytime soon. I'm happy.
Jessica - Mar 04, 2010 10:02:04 am PST #13180 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Mine has two slots, but at least one of them accepts CableCard-M, which is what my cable company prefers.
Jon B. - Mar 04, 2010 10:05:55 am PST #13181 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I have the original S3 (pre-HD and HD XL), and I remember the instructions being pretty clear that you needed 2 cable cards; it wouldn't work with just one. But maybe newer cablecard technology made those instructions obsolete? Or maybe the newer S3 machines have updated cablecard-reading hardware?
NoiseDesign - Mar 04, 2010 11:52:12 am PST #13182 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
The original S3 needs two single stream cards. All other Series 3 can use either one multistream or dual singlestream cards.
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2010 12:04:32 pm PST #13183 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Weaknees calls out three dual tuner HD models. I'm guessing mine goes both ways.
Jon B. - Mar 04, 2010 12:08:12 pm PST #13184 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Thanks, ND. So I could save $1.50/month by upgrading. Errr... maybe not.
Jessica - Mar 04, 2010 1:09:18 pm PST #13185 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ah - I was so late to the upgrade party I didn't realize there were older versions.
IOTivoN, my shiny new-to-me-but-probably-refurbished one is happily updating its software right now in the other room. So far my favorite feature is how it's not rebooting every fifteen minutes for no reason.
Tom Scola - Mar 04, 2010 1:56:43 pm PST #13186 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
There was NO LINE at Tekserve tonight. Awesome. I'm used to waiting for at least an hour.
Meanwhile, there were no Genius Bar reservations available until Saturday.