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-- ReplayTV Drive Upgrade --



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ReplayTV is one of the more interactive personal video recorders on the market. In addition to their low end models, which offer all the usual PVR features such as recording, ReplayTv units offer on-screen program guide and scheduling, live tv pause and more, their high end receivers offers features such as broadband connectivity, inter-connectivity, ability to swap shows with friends over the Internet, download photos from your PC and more.

A ReplayTv hard drive upgrade is one of the most requested upgrades. Most ReplayTV units come with a smaller 40GB hard drive, which can usually only hold up to 35 hours of programming. A ReplayTV hard drive upgrade can increase your recording capacity dramatically up to hundreds of hours depending on the size of your new hard drives and configuration. A ReplayTV hard drive upgrade will require a new larger computer hard drive, available from most computer and electronics stores.

All ReplayTV models can be upgraded, including the Replay 4xxx and Replay 5xxx models. Older Replay 2xxx and Replay 3xxx models can be upgraded as well, however they have a 137GB ceiling per drive. Since ReplayTV units can hold up to 2 drives (X 137GB), this gives you up to 274 hours of possible storage. Newer models are capable of holding even larger hard drives, if you should require them. There is a ceiling on the newer ReplayTV units as well, due to memory constraints. Extremely large upgrades will experience out of memory errors occasionally.

If your ReplayTV came originally with only one hard drive, it is advisable that you upgrade to a single larger hard drive. Although it is possible to add a second hard drive, the dual drive upgrade will modify your original ReplayTV drive, so you cannot revert back to it if something should go wrong. Another consideration is that there are no brackets available to hold a second drive for single factory units, so you will have to fabricate one or use another method of securing the second drive, such as plastic ties or zap straps.

The ReplayTV upgrade guides are broken down into 2 categories. Choose the appropriate guide based on the computer operating system you have (Windows XP/2000/ME/98/95 Etc)



ReplayTV Upgrade Guide
for Windows XP/Vista/2000/NT Users Only




ReplayTV Upgrade Guide
for Windows 95/98/ME Users Only







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