ReplayTV 2020 Digital Video Recorder
An excellent product with a few glitches.
I got my Replay TV 20/20 a month ago and would not want to watch TV without it now.  I have never tried TiVo so can't directly compare them, the reason I went with Replay was that I don't like the ideas of paying a  monthly fee, having my TV watching habits tracked and possibly linked to my  name, and having a device that tries to guess what I want to see.  I prefer  the Replay's idea of giving it keywords to look for.<br />While I thought the  live pause would be the most attactive feature, I find I like the on-screen  program guide and the extreme ease of scheduling and watching a recording  even more.<br />While I've seen several complaints about picture quality, the  picture looks fine to me in standard mode, although not quite as good as a  direct connection.  My biggest complaint is that the picture is not as  bright when going through Replay, but adjusting the TV fixes this.<br />I had  no significant problems setting it up or using it.  The on-screen menus and  remote are fine.<br />With all that said, I do have problems with it:<br />Most  bothersome, the picture sometimes blacks out for a second or so.  I  understand this is a common problem.<br />It would be REALLY nice to have a  progress indicator for recorded and paused shows.<br />It would be equally  nice to be able to search the program listings for a show or actor, without  having to set up a &quot;theme channel&quot; and wait to see what gets  recorded.<br />It doesn't turn on my cable box if it's off when a recording  begins.  The Replay knows if there's no signal, so there's no reason it  couldn't do this.<br />So far, it's crashed once, mysteriously deleted a  recorded show once, and lost all the program listings once.  All were  quickly and easily corrected (except the lost show), but that's still a  high failure rate.<br />I'd highly recommend this product to techno and/or TV  addicts like myself.  Others might want to wait a year or so until more of  the bugs have been worked out.  Either way I think it's such a great idea,  in a few years personal video recorders will be &quot;must-have&quot;  items, like a VCR.