ReplayTV 3020 Digital Video Recorder
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I've now had my Replay for many months and i'd like to expresss ome changes in the replay software and some things i've missed.<br />First problem i had was if you set a program to record at X time on X channel, it would do that for you no problem.  The problem was that it would do that every single time the program was on.  So for example if you're a STar Trek fan, it's on 7 days a week.  One night is a new episode, the rest of the nights is a rerun.  So it was almost useless recording this to watch at a later date because it would probably be overwritten.  THANKFULLY replay has updated the software to specify only to record an certain days of the week.  So now you can say only record Star Trek on wednesday nights.<br />The other problem that both Tivo and Replay have is overrun cutoff.  So if you're watching a football game, it's got a time slot.  However the game sometimes runs over that time slot in which case you get the end of the game cut off.  THANKFULLY replay has fixed this as well.  You can now specify how many minutes earlier and later than the timeslot to record.<br />I also want to say that you can record a show and watch a show you have previously recorded at the same time.  YOu can not record a show and watch live tv off the replay at the same time because it only has a single tuner, as does the TiVo.<br />One other thing is you can't hack upgrade the hard drive in this thing like the TiVo.  WIth the TiVo you can buy the 20 hour model then go buy a cheap very large capacity hard drive, clone the 20 hour drive over to your new one and install the new one into the tivo and get 60, 80, 100 hours of storage.  The Replay doesn't have this 'feature'.  You're stuck with what you buy.  So to help that i've changed from using guaranteed mode for everything to non-guaranteed mode.  This frees up space because  guaranteed mode actually reserves space for the show you want to record.  But if you watch stuff and delete it immediatly, non-guaranteed mode will letyou record more stuff.<br />Overall the unit is awesome.  I'm very happy with the  purchase and replay seems to be dedicated to improving the operating system with new features.  The only 2 things i wish it had now are dual tuners and an upgrade program for the hard drives.<br />Replay is also not making their units anymore, they're instead only licensing the technology to other vendors.  So you'll start seeing tv's with this technology built in which is nice.  ALso i heard SonicBLue is looking at buying ReplayTV, and they'll probably start work on a new Replay unit.  Rumour mill kinda stuff, but sounds exciting.