ReplayTV RTV5040 40-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Did everything it said it would do!
I am enjoying my Replay a lot.  I prefer watching my recordings to live television now and get mad when I can't jump over the commercials on live TV.<br />There are some extremely misleading bad reviews below and I wanted to clear some misconceptions up about what this item is capable of.<br />1. Commercial skipping - no this feature doesn't work all the time.  It's not Replay's fault.  TV networks have gotten smart enough to smash the commercials right to the edge of the show, so that recorders like this can't discern where the show ends and the commercial begins.<br />2. Channel flipping - yes, it is slow if you want to flip channels.  I personally don't find channel flipping necessary, since replay will show me a list of all the movies currently on, or sitcoms, or anything else.  But, if you want to flip channels, your old remote will still work.  It doesn't implode or anything.<br />3. Watching one show while recording another - you can watch one of your recorded shows while it records from TV - isn't that enough?<br />I didn't have any problems hooking it up to my cable modem and it updated and was ready to run in like 10 minutes.  You just have to tell it your location and it downloads the program guide.  The replaytv.com website is useful for troubleshooting.  I am really enjoying myreplaytv.com for picking out shows.  When I'm bored at work, I can go and see what is showing and it will send it to my Replay (on the next nightly update) and record those shows.  Pretty fun!<br />Tivo wasn't an option since I don't have a phone line, and I'm very happy with Replay!