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After several years of using ReplayTV, I just clicked on buying a TiVo! I feel like I went to the dark side, but it's double the capacity (80 vs. 40) and will record TWO shows at once. What have I done? !
TiVo Series2 80-Hour DT 2-Tuner Digital Video Recorder for just $50 (with one-year subscription plan)...http://www.tivo.com/promo/specialmarkets.html
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All your shows are belong to them.
Or something like that.
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Hmmmm. That's really tempting. I've been thinking of getting TiVo for quite a while now. I feel my resolve slipping away.
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What are you going to to do wtih your ReplayTV? Still use it? Sell it on eBay? What model number was it and do you have lifetime or month-to-month subscription?
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We still use it daily, but I guess we'll sell it now. It's model RTV5504 with a monthly subscription. I wish I'd bought the lifetime back when, but I was trying to avoid more credit card debt at the time...oh well...
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. . .there is that deal combining RS and Amazon. . .at chubby billfold. . .pretty good deal. . .
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Perhaps you weren't quite aware of the capabilities of your ReplayTV. I have ReplayTV and can record two shows at once and I have 400 gb of capacity (and it automatically skips commercials and can stream two shows simultaneously to two TVs). The secret: 1) increasing HD capacity in a replay is child's play; 2) I have two replays that are hooked to different TVs and stream shows to one another over ethernet. Still far superior to TiVo (except maybe the HD TiVo).
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Did something similar - stacked a lifetime Tivo on top of the lifetime Replay, so I have a "dual-tuner" capability as well (300GB in the Tivo, 250GB in the Replay)
Nicest thing about my Series 2 Tivo is Amazon Unbox - free horror movies on there now, and plenty of 99 cent movie rentals every weekend.
If you're patient, you can pick up a Series 2 lifetime Tivo for under $250 on ebay (the one I bought last year was about $200, but it had a bad drive)
[quote davester]Perhaps you weren't quite aware of the capabilities of your ReplayTV. I have ReplayTV and can record two shows at once and I have 400 gb of capacity (and it automatically skips commercials and can stream two shows simultaneously to two TVs). The secret: 1) increasing HD capacity in a replay is child's play; 2) I have two replays that are hooked to different TVs and stream shows to one another over ethernet. Still far superior to TiVo (except maybe the HD TiVo).
This is getting harder to resist, although I can't find an option to extend the prepaid subscription beyond one year with this offer. Can anybody else?