Some background :
I have ATT Digital Cable into the house, but have been unhappy with the sound quality.
I've had the ATT engrs round a number of times but they couldn't fix it - and even suggested that I was being 'fussy' and that the quality was 'to be expected'/normal. The problem is that high frequency sounds are very often distorted (especially 's' at the ends of words). If I listen to the same channels through my VCR, it sounds great. Also, it is only the analog channels that have this problem; not the digital ones (obviously I can't compare them anyway, since my VCR doesn't decode the digital channels). This makes me blame a poor quality tuner in the cable box (it's the General Electric one people mention).
I have also been idly keeping an eye on the DVR options and have noticed the ReplayTV 4000 box. It looks like it has the features I want and so I might take the plunge.
Some features and comments made by others confuse me.
I was hoping that I could throw away the crappy GE digital cable box that ATT supply, and that the ReplayTV 4000 box would have the equivalent tuner functionality (OK, I might have kept the box in order to watch a different channel to what the Replay 4000 is recording...). Some comments have suggested that it doesn't work this way - mentions of IR blasters and things. Will it do what I want?
Also, I have a couple of Maxtor 80GB IDE drives. I have seen mention of people upgrading their TiVos and Replays' with these drives and that is something that I would like to do. Does anyone know if there is any difference between the different ReplayTV models appart from disk capacity?
Or can I simply buy the cheapest one and add a couple of 80 GB drives?
Thanks for any insight...
Max.
I have ATT Digital Cable into the house, but have been unhappy with the sound quality.
I've had the ATT engrs round a number of times but they couldn't fix it - and even suggested that I was being 'fussy' and that the quality was 'to be expected'/normal. The problem is that high frequency sounds are very often distorted (especially 's' at the ends of words). If I listen to the same channels through my VCR, it sounds great. Also, it is only the analog channels that have this problem; not the digital ones (obviously I can't compare them anyway, since my VCR doesn't decode the digital channels). This makes me blame a poor quality tuner in the cable box (it's the General Electric one people mention).
I have also been idly keeping an eye on the DVR options and have noticed the ReplayTV 4000 box. It looks like it has the features I want and so I might take the plunge.
Some features and comments made by others confuse me.
I was hoping that I could throw away the crappy GE digital cable box that ATT supply, and that the ReplayTV 4000 box would have the equivalent tuner functionality (OK, I might have kept the box in order to watch a different channel to what the Replay 4000 is recording...). Some comments have suggested that it doesn't work this way - mentions of IR blasters and things. Will it do what I want?
Also, I have a couple of Maxtor 80GB IDE drives. I have seen mention of people upgrading their TiVos and Replays' with these drives and that is something that I would like to do. Does anyone know if there is any difference between the different ReplayTV models appart from disk capacity?
Or can I simply buy the cheapest one and add a couple of 80 GB drives?
Thanks for any insight...
Max.