Digital Video Recorders

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ReplayTV RTV5080 80-Hour Digital Video Recorder Specifications

A step up in broadband and home network-ready DVRs, ReplayTV’s 5000 series digital video recorders let you distribute recorded programs within your home and share personal recordings of nonprotected video content with 15 friends and family members who also own 5000 series DVRs.

The ReplayTV 5080 stores 80 hours of programming while letting you pause, replay, and slow down live television–all with no tapes, no timers, and no trouble. The handy Commercial Advance feature plays recordings without advertising. This allows you to watch television on your own schedule, free from the constraints of network scheduling, which often pits multiple cool programs head-to-head.

With a cable modem or DSL, the 5080 hooks up for fast and easy broadband video transfers with other broadband-connected 5000 series users. It also lets you share video throughout the house using a built-in Ethernet port and existing home-networking equipment, and it stores digital photos and home movies, letting you see your favorite digital photos on TV. This ReplayTV provides iChannels (which lets you download video content from the Internet) and the Reply Channel Guide, downloaded daily through the broadband connection, which offers a convenient, grid-based list of shows that can be recorded at the touch of a button. It comes with an easy-to-use remote control. ReplayTV subscribers can pay .95 per month or a one-time product service activation fee of 9.

ReplayTV RTV5080 80-Hour Digital Video Recorder Overviews

With ReplayTV, there’s always something good on, and you don’t ever need to be bothered by commercial interruptions again! Topping the charts of user-friendly features, Commercial Advance lets you choose to skip commercial breaks all together when you playback recorded shows. No fast-forward, no remote control interaction at all. Just a split-second “blip” and you’re right back into the action. Not bad for starters… and how about all those advanced features for the connected home, like Internet Video Sharing and Room-to-Room Video Streaming? It’s possible, and a whole lot easier than you think.The ReplayTV provides tape-free recording – easy one-touch recording with convenient on-screen channel guide, including a full 14 days of programming information; Live TV control – pause, rewind, instant replay, slow motion or frame-advance; commercial advance – choose to playback recorded shows with or without commercials; highest recording capacity; progressive scan that supports high-quality picture playback on digital TVs as well as home networking for room-to-room video streaming, broadband Internet, wireless USB network connectivity and digital photo capabilities.

[if I Own 160 H model (for about 4 years). And recently I got another DVR taht comes with DISH. The replaytv unit is vastly superior in every way (well, except I wish the replay unit had more than one tuner). The only other problem I have (which affects both units) is the electronic listings are wrong enough to be annoying.

Once you get a DVR, you will never go back to a VCR. I suggest you get at least 160 hours (more if more than one person will be using it).. Reasons will become clear with use (IE: you tend to save the last 3 or 4 shows of everything, so if you go on vacation (etc) they will be there waITING FOR YOU.

THE DISH DVR: (BOO):
There are too many crappy issues with the DISH unit to even remember them all (here are a few I can think of ):

When you hit pause (and go away).. It will start playing again by itself, so you miss your show (which is the point of the DVR in the first place).. And, it will not let you rewind when it starts playing automatically. It probably fills up the hard drive.. but there is no way to "not" fill up the hard drive because of the way the thing records shows for you (FIFO style). When you pause to see something the pause bar that pops up (to let you know you pauded presumably?) covers about a third of the screen (enough to cause you to miss 100 percent of whatever it was you wanted to see). NOTE that you can hit the arrow to go into slomo (from pause), but it skips away from what you want to see (so you are still screwed here). Trust me on this, Im not even sure a kid would have the patience to find something to see in slomo with this thing. When you record your shows, replayTV lets you organize stuff in whatever manner that suits you (very convenient after setup).. The DISH unit puts the most recent recordings in a list, with newest first. Sounds like no big deal, wait till you have over a hundred, and if you were able to compare this against the replay unit, you would understand.]

Customer Review

I Own 160 H model (for about 4 years). And recently I got another DVR taht comes with DISH. The replaytv unit is vastly superior in every way (well, except I wish the replay unit had more than one tuner). The only other problem I have (which affects both units) is the electronic listings are wrong enough to be annoying.

Once you get a DVR, you will never go back to a VCR. I suggest you get at least 160 hours (more if more than one person will be using it).. Reasons will become clear with use (IE: you tend to save the last 3 or 4 shows of everything, so if you go on vacation (etc) they will be there waITING FOR YOU.

THE DISH DVR: (BOO):
There are too many crappy issues with the DISH unit to even remember them all (here are a few I can think of ):

When you hit pause (and go away).. It will start playing again by itself, so you miss your show (which is the point of the DVR in the first place).. And, it will not let you rewind when it starts playing automatically. It probably fills up the hard drive.. but there is no way to “not” fill up the hard drive because of the way the thing records shows for you (FIFO style). When you pause to see something the pause bar that pops up (to let you know you pauded presumably?) covers about a third of the screen (enough to cause you to miss 100 percent of whatever it was you wanted to see). NOTE that you can hit the arrow to go into slomo (from pause), but it skips away from what you want to see (so you are still screwed here). Trust me on this, Im not even sure a kid would have the patience to find something to see in slomo with this thing. When you record your shows, replayTV lets you organize stuff in whatever manner that suits you (very convenient after setup).. The DISH unit puts the most recent recordings in a list, with newest first. Sounds like no big deal, wait till you have over a hundred, and if you were able to compare this against the replay unit, you would understand.

Still the BEST!! – Larry S. Holtzen – Seal Beach, CA USA
We’ve been using this unit for 3 years now and it is still the best. IMO many ways superior to Tivo. The commercial advance is a Godsend! And it works! The ethernet and digital streaming capabilities are superior to anything Tivo has to offer. Of course it is now owned and supported by the Marantz people and continues to work great. Glad I got the lifetime service agreement! It’s still a great choice, if you can find one . . .

Great for the first 18-months…then it died – H. Dorn – Newton, MA
I loved the ReplayTV 5160 during it’s short life. It has great features, including commercial skip and networking. Maybe I overused it, because now it is a dying old beast. It was new just 18 months ago, but now it freezes every night. It has to be unplugged for a few hours and then it works again when it is plugged in. Too bad I bought the “lifetime” subscription to their Guide service!

Best Thing to Ever happen to my TV life… – S. Osborn –
The 5000 series is surely the best DVR ever released. The 5040, 5060, and 5080 all have AUTOMATIC COMMERCIAL SKIP and you can DOWNLOAD and share programs over the internet. Many 3rd party plug-ins allow you to use a personal computer to save, back-up and schedule recordings. The never versions of the Replay box do not have these features as the original company was facing legal problems and sold to the less innovative DMG holdings.
Recap: Auto Skip commercials, and Downloading shows over the net are what makes this DVR better than any others.

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