Amazingly, the best DVR to-date has not been manufactured in several years. The ReplayTV 5000 series featured both automatic commercial skip ability and unencrypted transfer/streaming of content. I believe automatic commercial skipping was never ruled illegal, just that SonicBlue at the time realized there was no money to be made in fighting the good fight so it removed this feature in later versions.
Not a peep has been hard from ReplayTV for a while now. Tivo always had the better UI - but ReplayTV is definitely the second best option available.
Therefore the annoucement today that ReplayTV will become a software company could either be a move of brilliance or solely desperation. I have admittedly never used Microsoft's MCE2005, but I don't doubt that ReplayTV could win the interface battle with them. Can ReplayTV however leverage their previous networking experience to bring video to all computers/TV's in the home or will not having standardized hardware be too much to overcome? Will they charge a monthly fee for their EPG? It will be interesting to watch, but I fear this will be a precipitous slope.
Posted by shs4 at December 19, 2005 03:35 PM | TrackBackI'm out of league here. Too much brain power on dipsaly!
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