ReplayTV 5080 Digital Video Recorder ?
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devicemanager
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RE: ReplayTV 5080 Digital Video Recorder ?
I don't have any experience with that brand, but I have the Sony Tivo and I can't live without it now. If you need help connecting it let me know. I have a nack for this stuff.
I don't have any experience with that brand, but I have the Sony Tivo and I can't live without it now. If you need help connecting it let me know. I have a nack for this stuff.
RE: ReplayTV 5080 Digital Video Recorder ?
I have a Panasonic replay TV. Not that model though. I don't pay a monthly fee. I think I might have paid an activation fee but I don't remember for sure - it was a few years ago.
I could not enjoy TV without it. Pause, rewind, fast forward...
I try to pause and rewind my radio all the time but it only works on ReplayTV.
I try to pause and rewind people around me all the time but it only works on ReplayTV.
I like boxing and it is so dang cool to be able to jump back 10 seconds (or even 10 minutes or more) and watch the action in slow-mo whenever I want.
Is dinner ready 10 minutes before you movie ends? NO big deal, just pause, eat dinner with the family, and then finish your movie.
Enjoy some obscure 60's sitcom (Bewitched!) but it only comes on while you are at work? No problem, set ReplayTV to record it and it not only gets the episodes you knew about, but it finds episodes on a completely different channel and records those too.
And you never have to watch commercials again. Lets say you have a favorite show and you sit down at 9pm to watch it. it's an hour-long cop drama, let's say. Most h.l.c.d's follow a similar format at the start : a few minutes of action, intro credits, commercials, and back to the show. So here's what you do: watch the introductory scenes, then, when it goes to credits or commercial, pause it. Go do something else for 10 minutes (rest room, snack, smoke, whatever). Now, come back, and skip forward until the action starts back up again. You now are watching your show with about 5 minutes of "buffer". Freely pause and rewind while you watch it (builds more buffer). When a commercial break comes up, skip forward 2-3 minutes (however long the break is, this takes about 5 seconds) and you are right back into the show. When _you_ are ready to take a break, pause the show, do your business, and come back. usually, I "catch up to" live TV at about the 50 minute mark, having seen no commercials the entire time, then watch the last 10 minutes live. it depedns on how much buffer you build up.
(For recorded shows you don't have to worry about buffer you can just skip the commercials at will)
another cool feature : keyword or category search of the program guide ("NASCAR" or "karate");
Do you ever find yourself watcin some show you don;t realy care about becasue it is the "only thing on"? You will never again watch something just because it is the only thing on. There will always be something on that you want to watch, when you have DVR and you know how to use it. I know every day when I get home from work there is at least 3 hours of stuff (Bewitched, Simpsons, anything about karate) that I will be interested in newly recorded if I care to watch it.
I spent over $600 on mine and never regretted it.
I have a Panasonic replay TV. Not that model though. I don't pay a monthly fee. I think I might have paid an activation fee but I don't remember for sure - it was a few years ago.
I could not enjoy TV without it. Pause, rewind, fast forward...
I try to pause and rewind my radio all the time but it only works on ReplayTV.
I try to pause and rewind people around me all the time but it only works on ReplayTV.
I like boxing and it is so dang cool to be able to jump back 10 seconds (or even 10 minutes or more) and watch the action in slow-mo whenever I want.
Is dinner ready 10 minutes before you movie ends? NO big deal, just pause, eat dinner with the family, and then finish your movie.
Enjoy some obscure 60's sitcom (Bewitched!) but it only comes on while you are at work? No problem, set ReplayTV to record it and it not only gets the episodes you knew about, but it finds episodes on a completely different channel and records those too.
And you never have to watch commercials again. Lets say you have a favorite show and you sit down at 9pm to watch it. it's an hour-long cop drama, let's say. Most h.l.c.d's follow a similar format at the start : a few minutes of action, intro credits, commercials, and back to the show. So here's what you do: watch the introductory scenes, then, when it goes to credits or commercial, pause it. Go do something else for 10 minutes (rest room, snack, smoke, whatever). Now, come back, and skip forward until the action starts back up again. You now are watching your show with about 5 minutes of "buffer". Freely pause and rewind while you watch it (builds more buffer). When a commercial break comes up, skip forward 2-3 minutes (however long the break is, this takes about 5 seconds) and you are right back into the show. When _you_ are ready to take a break, pause the show, do your business, and come back. usually, I "catch up to" live TV at about the 50 minute mark, having seen no commercials the entire time, then watch the last 10 minutes live. it depedns on how much buffer you build up.
(For recorded shows you don't have to worry about buffer you can just skip the commercials at will)
another cool feature : keyword or category search of the program guide ("NASCAR" or "karate");
Do you ever find yourself watcin some show you don;t realy care about becasue it is the "only thing on"? You will never again watch something just because it is the only thing on. There will always be something on that you want to watch, when you have DVR and you know how to use it. I know every day when I get home from work there is at least 3 hours of stuff (Bewitched, Simpsons, anything about karate) that I will be interested in newly recorded if I care to watch it.
I spent over $600 on mine and never regretted it.
RE: ReplayTV 5080 Digital Video Recorder ?
What happens if the company goes under, ReplayTV already changed hands from SONICblue? I think you will be left with a paper weight with out the service. I don't know why they won't let you operated it without paying for a service and just program it like a VCR. For the $500 I can do with out it, and having to be dependent that the service remains active.
What happens if the company goes under, ReplayTV already changed hands from SONICblue? I think you will be left with a paper weight with out the service. I don't know why they won't let you operated it without paying for a service and just program it like a VCR. For the $500 I can do with out it, and having to be dependent that the service remains active.
devicemanager
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RE: ReplayTV 5080 Digital Video Recorder ?
You should be able to use it without paying anything. If I am correct, the payment is just for the tv listings and updates to the software.
So you will be ready to hack your box and upgrade to bigger drives. Steve does yours have a rj-45 connection on it. IF so you should or soon will be able to connect to your box from the road and program it and stuff.
You should be able to use it without paying anything. If I am correct, the payment is just for the tv listings and updates to the software.
So you will be ready to hack your box and upgrade to bigger drives. Steve does yours have a rj-45 connection on it. IF so you should or soon will be able to connect to your box from the road and program it and stuff.
RE: ReplayTV 5080 Digital Video Recorder ?
I can maually record stuff, the service updates the program guide data. I know of some people who are hakcing the internal language of that update so if SonicBlue goes under there might be somebody out there who can take up where they left off, or at least I can get some code that will let me hack something together.
ReplayTV was always SonicBLue but the branding/licensing thing is total SNAFU so who knows the whole story.
I can go to a website now and enter programming / recording choices and when my box connects tonight toteh ReplayTV server it will be updated with those commands.
94 Mark VIII, Black / Black
I can maually record stuff, the service updates the program guide data. I know of some people who are hakcing the internal language of that update so if SonicBlue goes under there might be somebody out there who can take up where they left off, or at least I can get some code that will let me hack something together.
ReplayTV was always SonicBLue but the branding/licensing thing is total SNAFU so who knows the whole story.
I can go to a website now and enter programming / recording choices and when my box connects tonight toteh ReplayTV server it will be updated with those commands.
94 Mark VIII, Black / Black
RE: ReplayTV 5080 Digital Video Recorder ?
When I called up the service center they told me the unit would not work until I paid for the service and entered the activation code. This unit has a both phone and LAN connection and up to 80 Hours of record time. Only the current units that have been produces will have to commercial skip, the broadcasters got on their case. Also with this unit and a broadband connection you can broadcast video to your PC or remote locations. I don't record that much TV so the cost is not justifiable to me with the activation fee. $500 will get you a DVD recorder right now and that price will drop, so I will wait out the digital recorders.
When I called up the service center they told me the unit would not work until I paid for the service and entered the activation code. This unit has a both phone and LAN connection and up to 80 Hours of record time. Only the current units that have been produces will have to commercial skip, the broadcasters got on their case. Also with this unit and a broadband connection you can broadcast video to your PC or remote locations. I don't record that much TV so the cost is not justifiable to me with the activation fee. $500 will get you a DVD recorder right now and that price will drop, so I will wait out the digital recorders.
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RE: ReplayTV 5080 Digital Video Recorder ?
I don't know anythoing about these units but I do know that TechTV often has segments about hacking them and using them with your computer. Check out www.techtv.com and do a search, there should be some info there.
I'm waiting for a TIVO type with recordable DVD to replace my VHS.
I don't know anythoing about these units but I do know that TechTV often has segments about hacking them and using them with your computer. Check out www.techtv.com and do a search, there should be some info there.
I'm waiting for a TIVO type with recordable DVD to replace my VHS.
RE: ReplayTV 5080 Digital Video Recorder ?
there's 2 or 3 good sites about RTV, and about 20 more that just link to the same content ha! I haven't looked at that one yet but I will.
I've decided today that I need to upgrade my RTV 30xx to a 40xx model, then setup the ethernet / apache hack that will allow it to stream video across my home network into my PC. Then I can burn shows onto DVD for long term storage. Sure I could just tape them to VHS but I'm a computer nerd and that ain't cool enuff.
So my PanaSonic Showstopper will soon be for sale cheap... and it is already lifetime authorized so NO STARTUP FEE!
94 Mark VIII, Black / Black
there's 2 or 3 good sites about RTV, and about 20 more that just link to the same content ha! I haven't looked at that one yet but I will.
I've decided today that I need to upgrade my RTV 30xx to a 40xx model, then setup the ethernet / apache hack that will allow it to stream video across my home network into my PC. Then I can burn shows onto DVD for long term storage. Sure I could just tape them to VHS but I'm a computer nerd and that ain't cool enuff.
So my PanaSonic Showstopper will soon be for sale cheap... and it is already lifetime authorized so NO STARTUP FEE!
94 Mark VIII, Black / Black
devicemanager
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RE: ReplayTV 5080 Digital Video Recorder ?
I think Microsoft attempted to make one called the Ultimate Box, with that one you were able to tape 2 movies at the same time and watch a recoded movie. But that might require 2 cable boxes.
I think Microsoft attempted to make one called the Ultimate Box, with that one you were able to tape 2 movies at the same time and watch a recoded movie. But that might require 2 cable boxes.