ReplayTV RTV5516 160-Hour Digital Video Recorder
I went with Tivo after owning ReplayTV
I bought a ReplayTV and for the first two days it worked great. But it started to freeze up all the time on day three. I had to unplug it (holding in the power button for 15 secondes didn't work) to reset it. One time when I was watching a football game, the screen turned into a bunch of squares and weird noises repeated indefinitely-- obviously a hardware issue. I was watching the game delayed and lost all the data so I and my nine-year old missed the end of the game. I had had enough so I boxed it up and called the number for the refund (NOT toll free). They were very friendly and processed the refund quickly.  <br /> <br />I think TiVo is more user-friendly with a better interface. The actual TiVo hardware is a little smaller than Replay (huge!). But Replay has an Ethernet port already on the machine so I could hook up to my computer through our network more easily than TiVo's. TiVo only has a USB port so if you want to network it, you have to buy a separate adapter that converts it from USB to Ethernet (hard to find one that actually works).  <br /> <br />But now that it is set up, TiVo is much easier to navigate. It is also easier to make music available from my computer to the TiVo, and easier to burn saved shows to DVD on my computer. I do miss the 30 second skip, though. If it hadn't died on me, I think I would have been okay with the Replay, but I'm kind of glad it did because I like the TiVo better. You might have no troubles with it, but that is my experience.