ReplayTV 2020 Digital Video Recorder
other reviews miss the &quot;best&quot; feature
I've had an original Replay for about 4 months now.<br />Over that time I've had about 5 lockups and about 15 missed shows due to the &quot;fuzzy&quot; logic of the channel guide.<br />Once you learn the quirks, it can be more  reliable than a VCR. (we have been known to mis-position a tape or leave  the VCR on!)  The software automatically updates, and I've been told (and  beleive) most of the &quot;quirks&quot; will go away with later software  downloads.<br />The *BEST* feature by far is watching one show while another  is recording.  You can even watch the *SAME* show while it's recording.   Say you  come in at 7:15, You can sit down and start watching a show (from  the beginning) that began at 7:00.<br />I've found we watch *LESS* TV now.  We  totally skip the :30 shows we didn't care about, and watch something else.  Messing with the VCR would have been a pain (we recorded large blocks), it  would be needed for another show in 30 minutes. (Many of our shows come on  concurrently) So we just  watched a bad show and waited.  Now we watch live  what the VCR is recording (in case we weren't home) and then catch up on  replay.  You don't have to worry about missing anything.. if show 2 starts  while we're still watching show 1, no big deal.. Replay can do both at the  same time! (Plus, we can start show 2 when we finish #1 even though it's  still recording.)