ReplayTV RTV5516 160-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Great unit; Mixed blessing at first.
Cons: <br />Hassle to setup <br />My unit only sees the IR remote from right in front. <br /> <br />Pros: <br />Great unit with a lot of features for a price that I can afford. <br />Works great with my Dish 301 box. <br />Love the Ethernet connection so I can download the shows and burn them to DVD if I want to. <br />   <br /> <br />Last week it arrived! Everything was there as promised, and full expectation I installed the unit. <br />When I switched it on the \\"Quick\\" setup started, well this was everything but quick....pfff. <br />I took me 5 hours...dialing and redialing before the channel guide made it into the unit. <br />Never finished a nightly update without hanging up on \\"transferring additional information\\" message. Rebooting the unit was the only thing I could do to get it to work again. Tried all kinds of phone numbers and modem speeds but nothing seemed to work. <br /> <br />After some research on the FAQ side of RealTV &lt;[...]> <br />I could setup a peer to peer network via a crossover Ethernet cable and whalla! I downloaded the channel-guide and made it past the \\"transferring additional information\\" message AND it started downloading new software. <br />Even though it was slow (approx 40 minutes on a 56k Modem) it never messed up. <br /> <br />Now with the new software Version 530511440 the problems are gone. It will dial-out now and will get the updates in approx 5 minutes. <br />Anyway I have learned a lot about the unit and I have DVArchive software on my laptop that can download the shows to my laptop to play them on the road. Awesome program! <br /> <br />