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Unlike analog VCRs, Philips's HDR312 personal TV receiver uses TiVo technology to store compressed audio-video data to a computer hard disk. When you're ready to watch a preselected program, the HDR312 retrieves it upon command from a list of shows you've recorded. Among the most revolutionary aspects of the Philips/TiVo server is the ability to pause live broadcasts and either resume a program where you left off or return to the program in real time. For example, while watching live sporting events, you can replay the last eight seconds of the action. You can then return to the live broadcast at any time. Using the palm-size remote, you can rewind and fast-forward pretaped programs, skipping through recorded commercials if you choose. Philips supplies all the necessary cables for setting up the HDR312, including a 50-foot phone line and splitter. You don't need a separate phone line; simply connect the splitter to the wall, connect your phone and receiver cable to the splitter, and you're in business. The phone line is vital, however, for downloading TV listings; recording shows; and receiving TiVo's Suggestions feature, which suggests programs you might enjoy based on your previous selections, and TiVolution Magazine, which offers recommendations on the best programs to watch. After the initial download, the receiver spends about five minutes updating your programming data each night. TiVo's onscreen setup guide includes easy step-by-step instructions. TiVo charges .95 a month for its weekly listing service, TiVolution Magazine, and its Suggestions feature, or you can pay a one-time service charge of 9. Once you've selected a program to record, you have four choices of picture quality: basic, medium, high, or best. The higher settings take up more storage space, which translates into fewer hours of available record time..../ Philips HDR312 TiVo 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder / tivo series 2
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For once, a product that lives up to its ad slogans : Philips HDR312 TiVo 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Both are light years ahead of VCRs, both have ups and downs, either will change your idea of how television is watched. They both pause live TV, find and record your favorite shows without the hassles that tapes create. They both allow you to pay service costs up front (actually Replay _requires_ it), and if you do they both cost the same.
Tivo advantages: Suggestions. You give shows you like or don't like up to three thumbs up or thumbs down, and Tivo will look for things that match those preferences. Note that your preference information is never shared with Tivo Inc. It never leaves your house, the box makes the suggestions itself.
Recording by date, time, and channel. Useful for lengthy shows you only want a part of, events that may run past the scheduled end time.
Replay advantage: Theme areas which will record things based on keywords or actors. Tivo doesn't yet have this, but will by at least Halloween, probably sooner. As with Replay, software upgrades for Tivo are done automatically during the nightly call so existing Tivo owners will get it free.
Where Replay scared me off was it's labyrinth of complex scheduling and show retention rules and it's disk management, which essentially chops up the disk into separate areas for each show. If you make the shows "guaranteed" (which does not actually guarantee the show will record), those areas won't share space with each other, even if they aren't using it. For "non-guaranteed" shows space is shared, but no warning about schedule conflicts is given so you never really know what's going to be recorded. Even Replay doesn't know if a show will pass all the tests until moments before it's on, so it can't tell you in advance. Think that Frasier "show" area will catch double episodes? Nope, show areas only catch one showing per day. NBC shows Frasier at 8:00 one night instead of 9, but you're covered, right? Nope, show areas won't find a show if it moves more than one slot away from it's normal time. So you use a "Theme" area for Frasier instead of a "Show" area, another way to do automatic recordings. Set it for an hours worth of programming and you're set! Double episodes, hour long episodes, no problem, right? Except that theme areas grab shows from every channel on the dial, and your UPN affiliate shows two syndicated episodes of Frasier every night (this isn't hypothetical, mine does), so your Frasier theme area gets those too. So what, you say, they'll just get overwritten when the prime-time episodes run? Nope. Replay theme areas won't throw away a show until it's a day old, so when Frasier comes on NBC at 9:00, Replay finds the hour-long Frasier area already full of shows it can't delete yet so it doesn't record _any_ prime time episodes, even if there is space somewhere on the disk. The solution is to up the Frasier area to two hours so it can hold both the syndicated episodes you don't want and any hour long or double episodes you do. You actually have to manage and allocate space yourself, and to do it effectively you have to be aware of when channels you don't care about show episodes you don't want since they can prevent Replay from recording or keeping what you _do_ want. Even VCRs don't demand that much care and feeding.
A Tivo "season pass" handles this neatly and simply. It only records from the specific channel you set it to, but it doesn't restrict the times or number of episodes that will be recorded and it doesn't restrict shows to sharing a tiny portion the disk, so you'll get long, double, or moved episodes (unless a moved or extra episode conflicts with something else - neither Tivo or Replay can record two things at once, so something won't get recorded if that happens). Tivos to-do list shows you everything it will record through it's 10 days of programming data, and because Tivo projects it's space requirements throughout those 10 days, it knows it advance when a new recording would exceed it's capacity, and offers to delete some shows earlier than planned or cancel the recording.
With Tivo you know what will be recorded, you know what effect additional recordings will have on Tivos spaces schedule, and recordings are kept as long as disk space permits. The Replay and Tivo forums at avsforum.com are an excellent source of information.