Installation guide

One method is to route the cable over the drive:
Another way is to route the cable over the
motherboard:
*Hard drive replacement documentation using RTVPatch is here:
RTVPatch single drive upgrade documentation (Win2k/XP)
RTVPatch dual drive upgrade documentation (Win2k/XP)
• ReplayTV company history:
ReplayTV was founded in 1997 and got its first DVR on the market in 1999. Many sources credit ReplayTV with being the first
DVR to market, if only by a matter of weeks before TiVo. (For ReplayTV model history click here.) In 2001, ReplayTV
was purchased by SONICblue and the first Ethernet enabled ReplayTV, the 40XX series was released late in 2001. In March of
2003 SONICblue filed for bankruptcy and in April of 2003 the ReplayTV and Rio product lines were purchased by D&M Holdings,
the parent company to the Denon and Marantz brands. D&M Holdings then created Digital Networks North America (DNNA) to
handle the ReplayTV and Rio products. Within two years, DNNA would decide to focus on DVR software and software licensing
and abandon DVR hardware manufacturing entirely.
• ReplayTV model history:
The original release of the ReplayTV was the model 20XX from ReplayTV. A unique feature of the ReplayTV 20XX line was they
ignored macrovision entirely. Although ReplayTV 20XXs had a firewire port, presumably for hard drive storage expansion, the
port was never activated in software. Early adopters paid a hefty premium for a ReplayTV. Here's pricing from late 1998/early
1999 via web.archive.org (http://web.archive.org/web/19981205130618/www.replaytv.com/order.html):
ReplayTV 2001 @ $995 (approx. 6 hours of storage)
ReplayTV 2002 @ $1295(approx. 10 hours of storage)
ReplayTV 2003 @ $1495(approx. 13 hours of storage)
ReplayTV 2004 @ $1995 (approx. 26 hours of storage)
Panasonic released the ShowStopper in 2000, which was followed by and was the hardware equivalent of the ReplayTV 30XX
series ReplayTVs. (Originally the ShowStoppers and 30XX series ReplayTVs treated macrovision protected content differently.
ShowStoppers would not record or even display macrovision protected content, while the 30XX series ReplayTVs would record
and playback macrovision protected content, with macrovsion added back on the playback to prevent downstream copying.
Version 3.02 of the ReplayTV software made the ShowStoppers and ReplayTV 30XX series ReplayTVs functionally equivalent to
allow recording and playback of macrovision protected content.) Panasonic also manufactured a 27" TV with integrated
ShowStopper. These units run software version 2 and cannot be upgraded to a later version.
ReplayTV followed the 30XX line with the 40XX line in the fall of 2001, the first to feature an Ethernet port and networking
features like streaming from other ReplayTVs on the local area network and Internet Video Sharing. The 40XX series was also
the first series to feature Automatic Commercial Advance. Although the 40XX series had a modem in addition to the Ethernet
port, when the line was first introduced, the modem was not activated. A later software release allowed the use of the
modem or the Ethernet port for net connects. To try and market ReplayTV to a larger group of consumers, lifetime service was
separated from the hardware for the first time in the 45XX series (released in mid-2002), identical to the 40XX series except
they did not include lifetime service.
The 50XX series ReplayTV (released in October of 2002) went to a different motherboard with different video
encoding/decoding, and was sold for a time without lifetime service included, then for a time with service included and then
again without service included. There was a lawsuit filed by the entertainment industry (Hollywood and the major TV
networks) against SONICblue (the owner of ReplayTV at that time), objecting to Automatic Commercial Advance and Internet
Video Sharing - claiming copyright infringement. The 55XX series line, released in late summer 2003, was an attempt to make
peace with Hollywood and the major networks over Automatic Commercial Advance and Internet Video Sharing. It is identical
hardware to the 50XX series line, but Automatic Commercial Advance and Internet Video Sharing were removed as features.