Talk:ReplayTV

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The Category:Linux based devices links to ReplayTV. If ReplayTV truely does use Linux then it should be noted in the article, and on Linux Devices. Jdm64 19:17, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

That was incorrect. Early models used a monolithic RT system of some sort (MQX RTOS for the 3000s, at least). The 4000s and 5000s use VxWorks. I didn't see any reasonable place in the article to put any of that and am not sure it's of general interest. Jtl 15:31, 19 August 2006 (UTC)→

The sections on ReplayTV Service probably shouldn't be written in past tense, the service still exists at least for ReplayTV unit owners.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:24, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Issue has been resolved. (Delete this section? Archive it?) Alsee (talk) 21:55, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Dead Link

(2) D&M Holdings Sells Most ReplayTV Assets To DirecTV http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200712130807DOWJONESDJONLINE000702_FORTUNE5.htm link goes to a dead page with 404 error. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alsee (talk • contribs) 21:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Resolved. Changed to the announcement by D&M Holdings. Msschmitt (talk) 18:30, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Replay did not beat TiVo to market

The article says ReplayTV had a DVR out 2 months before TiVo. This directly conflicts with a TiVo employee who states that TiVo beat Replay to the shelves by one month.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=389014 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.116.19.93 (talk) 02:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Neither ReplayTV or Tivo had Shelf space in retail at launch so to say Tivo beat Replay to the shelves has no meaning as both were direct sales. Tivo announced that they were shipping a month before ReplayTV shipped it's first product but ReplayTV has thousands of units shipped before Tivo shipped any meaningful quantity. This is born out that Walt Mossberg had a Replay for Evaluation but even after the announced shipment he could not get one and threatened to do his article without the Tivo. Tivo eventually did get him a unit to evaluate and he did a review of both. 147.21.160.5 (talk) 22:04, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

The article appears to be verifiably wrong in claiming that ReplayTV launched two months ahead of TiVo. They both introduced their product to the public at the same 1999 CES convention. ReplayTV's S1/A filing with the SEC says that they initially launched their production service in April 1999, but that their full retail launch was not going to start until sometime in 2000. By the end of 1999, ReplayTV had sold only around 6000 units. http://sec.edgar-online.com/replaytv-inc/s-1a-securities-registration-statement/2000/03/03/Section16.aspx

TiVo's SEC filing says that they had an initial production launch in March 1999, and that they were starting their full retail launch in the second half of 1999. http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHTML1?ID=1179416&SessionID=koUxWv6dLSOMMs7

TiVo's year-end report to the SEC confirms that by the end of 1999, they had sold approximately 18,000 units. http://www.hoovers.com/free/co/secdoc.xhtml?ID=59993&ipage=357225-91416-106062

So it is undeniable that the wiki statement about ReplayTV beating TiVo to launch is inaccurate by any definition of launch. Devil doesnt care (talk) 22:44, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

I am not sure this proves which shipped and advertised first. I certainly would not regard a TiVo employee as an objective source, and I have often heard the opposite fact over the years. My own experience is consistent with the notion that ReplayTV was available for purchase before TiVo, and may have advertised earlier, or at least initially with wider marketing campaigns. I had heard of ReplayTV from a magazine ad someone pointed out to me in 1998. (Or it may have been an article.) I had pre-ordered my ReplayTV in, I believe, January or February of 1999. I cannot be sure of when I received my unit but it was doubtfully any later than April. It was the first model they offered, and I used it extensively until 2006 (without upgrading the hardware, only the firmware). In 2006 I retired it due to the buzzing noise it developed after being powered on non-stop for nearly seven years. (Technically, it was still working and I never had any problems with it.) Working in the internet / digital media business since 1996, and with a background and family connections in the television entertainment industry, my associates and I paid attention to technology like this. I remember being introduced to the concept of a DVR in 1998 via press about ReplayTV, so my assumption was that they invented the concept. I had not heard of TiVo until late 1999 (a full year later) when I was recommending to a co-worker to get a DVR, and he said he wasn't interested in paying a subscription. I didn't know what he was talking about, because ReplayTV didn't offer a subscription -- you bought the box at full price the schedules were updated via an internal dial-up modem every night, for free, for life. I then began hearing the name "TiVo" more often in 2000 via word-of-mouth. People I spoke to in 2000 seemed to know what TiVo was but not ReplayTV, and seemed surprised that I had been using a DVR for a year already. (In other words, nobody I spoke to had heard of a TiVo any earlier than late 1999.) This seems evidence to me that the TiVo's marketing campaign was much more aggressive and went viral in late 1999. The subscription offering was also apparently more successful than forcing people to buy an expensive box for a one-time fee. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Symphonitron (talk • contribs) 03:40, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

First Paragraph Timeline is confusing

The mixing in of DNNA's bankruptcy and the end of EPG data from D&M Holdings is confusing. It creates the impression that the two are related, but they shouldn't be. The D&M Holdings spun off DNNA, among its assets was ReplayTV's IP, which as noted had been sold to DirecTV. So, after that point DNNA would have no more involvement with ReplayTV, since the EPG service had remained with D&M Holdings. Though DNNA's bankruptcy is something ReplayTV readers would want to read about. Just as, if exists, any information about the new suit against SONICblue. Thought I had kept the letter.

When I first read, I got the impression that D&M Holdings had also gone bankrupt. Which concerned me as I also a Marantz device, which has internet services behind it. But, found elsewhere they were bought off from D&M Holidays last year, so hopefully a complete separation. Though I wonder what the M stands now (in D+M Group)?

The Dreamer (talk) 00:30, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

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