ReplayTV RTV4516 Digital Video Recorder
Fine, but don't connect by phone
A glitch with this otherwise very useful toy is that once the modem has connected to the ReplayTV service, it won't let go of the phone line. You have to plug it in at night, then unplug it in the morning if you want to use the phone line for anything else (and who can afford a separate phone line to make one call a day?). Tech Support, which is often unavailable and claims that a fix is &quot;coming&quot; and &quot;in the works,&quot; is hardly to be believed, as it's been this way for months and months. Software modems are not a new technology and one begins to wonder if 4504 owners are going to simply be left to deal with this problem as newer models emerge. <BR>One other little annoyance: SonicBlue uploads an ad for another product to serve as a screen saver. This kind of unasked-for advertising is a bit of an affront after you've paid for the machine and paid for the service. <BR>Other than that it's a very useful device, for the most part a big improvement over the old VCR.