SONlCblue Revs Up Replay TV PVRs.(new personal video recorder)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, September, 2001 by BROWN, KAREN

Armed with technology from newly acquired ReplayTV Inc., SONICblue Inc. has plunged into the personal video recorder game with a box line-up that can record up to 320 hours of Internet-protocol video, ship files around a home network and even exchange files with other Internet users. SONICblue is targeting its new Replay TV 4000 line of boxes to higher-end broad-band users with home networks.

But the biggest hurdle may be price: Units range from $699 to just shy of $2,000. The four boxes, available beginning in November under the ReplayTV brand, can record programs without commercials, ship IP MPEG2 video between ReplayTV receivers and PCs in a broadband home network and send and receive video files over the Internet, all with no monthly subscription...

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