TiVo has contacted both the FCC and cable operators to let them know that the Series 3 will be available soon. In their letter, they encourage cable operators to make sure that they have adequate supplies of cable cards ready for the upcoming Series 3 TiVo box. With two cable card slots and some obvious pent up consumer demand, I have a funny feeling that we are going to see record demand for cable card’s over the next year. Some have interpreted the failure of cable card adoption with TV sets, as a sign of it’s failure, but I believe that it speaks more to the appeal of the PVR. Anyone who is going to spend a couple thousand dollars for a nice TV expects to have time shifting capabilities to go with that. Between TiVo’s series 3 and Microsoft’s upcoming cable card Media Center Vista, I expect that the next year will prove the cable card critics wrong about it’s impending death.