[Ozone34]

The main difference is that with TIVO you must "fast-forward" through commercials, etc. The TIVO consortium is deeply in bed with Hollywood, and they want you to see commercials, even at a subliminal level as they go by fast. ReplayTV has a 30 sec advance button in addition to the fast forward controls. This is why ReplayTV has been sued and gone through a series of bankruptcy/bailout scenarios, and is no longer available at retail outlets.

[Monty22]

"ReplayTV has a 30 sec advance button in addition to the fast forward controls."

With a tivo do this and you got the same thing:

Type in select-play-select-3-0-select to turn on the 30 second skip mode. You should hear a "ding-ding-ding" sound. That means you've made change.

[gcruse]

Okay, I know what you mean about commercial skipping.
A couple of years ago, there was a TV show about the best
commercials of the year. I wouldn't have recorded it but
the TIVO did. If you've never sampled (you don't really fast forward in the sense of a VCR) through commercials, you don't know what a touch it takes to do it just right. And you can't imagine the confusion I had trying to sample through the commercials of a show about commercials. LOL