ReplayTV 2020 Digital Video Recorder
Skip Replay - Buy TiVo instead
I know I may sound a bit harsh, but I've (briefly) used both a Replay and the Philips/TiVo service, and I find TiVo to be the better model, hands-down.<br />My biggest gripe has to do with the show selection process;  Replay is extremely cumbersome when compared to TiVo.  I'm not exaggerating  when I say it took me almost ten times as long to select shows to record  with Replay, versus the streamlined process which TiVo has.<br />Second gripe?   The remote control leaves much to be desired.  Compared to TiVo, the  remote is extremely cumbersome.  Now, I understand that the remote is  currently going through a re-design, but that will obviously take time.<br />I  also have concerns with playback quality and the number of purported  recording hours.  Yes, certain models claim 20-hour recording times, but  that is at the lowest resolution, which gives a barely recognizable  picture.  At highest quality, the number of hours is severely limited.   (Actually, TiVo does the same thing of promoting the number of LOW QUALITY  hours that their units can record, but in a comparison of the two, at both  low and highest settings, the quality of the TiVo picture was a little  better).<br />So in short, after spending some time with both units, I found  Replay to be lacking.  To reiterate what other reviwers said, I would  probably have one if TiVo didn't exist.  But it does, and its product and  service is MUCH, MUCH BETTER THAN REPLAY.