I have two new Replays, a 5040 and a 5080. Both are connected to an Ethernet LAN with basically zero traffic. Both units connect to a LinkSys 10/100 Switch. I haven't performed any throughput tests on the LAN, but I guess maybe I should because watching a video on one unit that was recorded on the other is NOT satisfactory. I'm getting little little fragments fragments of of of of dialog dialog repeated repeated twice twice. It's really bad at the beginning and the end of the show. It's like listening to someone stutter. It's not a minor irritiation, it's unwatchable.
I have some other non-trivial issues with the new 5080, like Commercial Advance that doesn't wait for commercials and skips 10 and 15 minute chunks of the program. My wife turned CA off after only a a few shows, complaining she had missed large sections of each show.
It's hard to believe I got TWO bad units, one purchased at the local
Best Buy and then a second purchased from Amazon.com about two weeks later. I don't really buy the network bottleneck issue since it's a 100MB network with two computers on it, one of which is almost never turned on. surely the machine playing the video buffers more than two seconds of the program? Sheesh, if not, wireless networks will NEVER work.
I'm not bashing Replay (yet) because I suspect I just got one, or maybe two bad samples.
Too bad they don't staff their phone on the weekend so I could maybe get an answer to my concerns before Monday. BTW, I am told they will soon expand their support hours.
David
I have some other non-trivial issues with the new 5080, like Commercial Advance that doesn't wait for commercials and skips 10 and 15 minute chunks of the program. My wife turned CA off after only a a few shows, complaining she had missed large sections of each show.
It's hard to believe I got TWO bad units, one purchased at the local
Best Buy and then a second purchased from Amazon.com about two weeks later. I don't really buy the network bottleneck issue since it's a 100MB network with two computers on it, one of which is almost never turned on. surely the machine playing the video buffers more than two seconds of the program? Sheesh, if not, wireless networks will NEVER work.
I'm not bashing Replay (yet) because I suspect I just got one, or maybe two bad samples.
Too bad they don't staff their phone on the weekend so I could maybe get an answer to my concerns before Monday. BTW, I am told they will soon expand their support hours.
David