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my new TiVo Roamio has 6 tuners- verizon support tells me their mcards only support 2- is this true?
Penguinboy
Newbie
โ€Ž07-25-2014 04:53 PM
Hi all-

My old 2 tuner Tivo with verizon m-card died this week so i ordered a new tivo. My new TiVo Roamio has 6 tuners- verizon support tells me their mcards only support 2- is this true? I read FCC rules state they only have to support as many tuners as the DVRs they sell. I thought the Quantum supported 6? I also read that my cable card part number- 514517-002-00 and is an mcpod1 card that's 7 years old only supports 2 tuners BUT the newer mcpod3 cards will work with 6 tuners- part number 514517-017-00. Does anyone have experience with this and if you've managed to get this work, can you advise who to call , what to ask for, thanks so much!! -Danny
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tns2
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โ€Ž07-25-2014 06:44 PM

I don't know from personal experience, but others have been talking about Roamio's with Verizon service.  And wikipdia lists Mcards as being able to handle up to six streams simultaneously.

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mfizzy
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In response to tns2
โ€Ž07-25-2014 06:51 PM

MCard will handle 6 tuners

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Hubrisnxs
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โ€Ž07-25-2014 07:31 PM
They were crazy. You'll be fine
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ursa99
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In response to Hubrisnxs
โ€Ž07-26-2014 01:17 PM

I have TWO Romaios and both have one Mcard that handle 6 tuners just fine.  In fact I picked up the Mcards at a local Verizon store and did a self install and all worked just fine. 

Verizon is flat  out wrong about only 2 tuners for Mcards.  

Ursa

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