ReplayTV RTV4516 Digital Video Recorder
Good product, but lacks an important element
The 4504 works as advertised. However, if you want to take advantage of its ability to use your home network for viewing stored program material from another location in your house, you not only have to buy another unit (this is reasonable), you have to pay the activation fee for the second unit (which is not). This is like having to pay for a new water meter every time you add a new hose bib in your garden. You only need one unit to do the recording, to be hooked in to the programming information the activation fee gives access to. The other units ... should be able to be slaved to the main unit. The activation fee in the case of secondary units is just a way to stick you for more money. That said, it's still a marvelous little box. I just don't like the bait-and-switch aspect of the added, uncalled-for fee.