ReplayTV RTV5040 40-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Replay rules
Replay has worked, as advertised, from the minute I've taken it out of the box.  I thought I might have a problem when it wouldn't record my satellite signal but it was operator error.  After reading the owners manual (novel concept I know, I found that the S-VHS is input 2 and I had assumed it was input 1.<br />Hooked it up to the phone for downloads (took about 20 minutes but then have you been on AOL lately?) and the guide and box were ready to go.  Commercial skip is money!  The box has so many features you begin to assume it can think for itself.<br />My wife, a San Francisco 49er fan, was watching the recorded game against the Giants.  Zipping through dead time, skipping commercials she caught up to the last 5 minutes of the game when it stopped!  I had assumed Replay would stay with the game (it stayed with the three hour block listed in the guide) and so hadn't switched her over to the live game to watch the heartwrenching ending.<br />I got no complaints (since the Niners won) so far.