ReplayTV 2020 Digital Video Recorder
A Glimpse of the Future
I've only had mine for a couple of days, but since I got it, I haven't used my TV tuner for anything.<br />In those two days I've had no serious glitches. I do notice the noise sometimes, but only in those rare moments  when my apartment is totally quiet. When I'm using it the noise is  undetectable.<br />I expected (when I ordered it) to mostly use the pause and  commercial skip features, so I could watch TV on my own time table. Once I  got a good feel for how it worked, my vision changed. Now I see it as a  filter: I browse the program guide, pick shows I want, and let the Replay  unit record them. When I have time to watch TV, instead of having to worry  about what's on right then, I just look at what the ReplayTV has saved  lately.<br />It's cool. It's addictive. And this is only the second generation  of the product available to consumers. I can easily envision a time- say,  in three years- when the recording capacity and video quality have improved  enough to make these units as ubiquitous as the VCR.