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Viewers, though, might rebel against too many restrictions on the cable-box PVRs and opt for stand-alone units. TiVo's new $400 Series2 units will be sold at retail through Best Buy, and Sony will produce the devices too. Competition from SONICblue's ReplayTV--which has less than 3% of the market--is also heating up. New Replay units hitting stores later this year will be priced "equal to or better than TiVo, with higher functionality," says SONICblue ceo Ken Potashner...
...Land, the swapping comes on top of another, potentially bigger threat. While college kids and geeks are swapping comedies and cartoons online via PCs, a controversial new device called ReplayTV 4000--think of a supersmart VCR--lets regular nontechie folks save television shows in pristine digital format directly from their TV, then watch them commercial free and send them over the Net to other Replay users. Hackers have even figured out ways to copy Replay files to their personal computers, where the files can be uploaded by users of Morpheus and similar programs for wider dissemination...
...Land, the swapping comes on top of another, potentially bigger threat. While college kids and geeks are swapping comedies and cartoons online via PCs, a controversial new device called ReplayTV 4000--think of a supersmart VCR--lets regular nontechie folks save television shows in pristine digital format directly from their TV, then watch them commercial free and send them over the Net to other Replay users. Hackers have even figured out ways to copy Replay files to their personal computers, where the files can be uploaded by users of Morpheus and similar programs for wider dissemination...
...Remember Tivo, the gadget that digitally records your favorite shows? The next generation is here: SonicBlue's ReplayTV 4000 ($699) works like a Tivo but also connects to the Internet so you can swap recorded shows online--if you have a fast connection, that is; these are big files. Trading TV shows over the Net for free? If this reminds you of the Napster flap, you're not alone: the Big Three networks are suing...
...give credit where credit is due, ReplayTV does deliver what it promises. If someone were gauche enough to call during Buffy, I could simply pause it. If I double-click on The Simpsons in the onscreen Channel Guide, ReplayTV knows to record it every time it's on, any time, any channel. That's a beautiful thing. The latest ShowStopper comes with 60 hours of recording time (at the lowest-quality setting), and that's more than enough for even the most obsessive Homerphile...