More ReplayTV

OK, I have not bought any more ReplayTV machines (yet). I guess 6 is enough for one household, although I plan to give one to my mom.

However, we did experience a second hard drive failure from one of the Western Digital drives. This makes two hardware failures for WD. I think I am going to have to go to Seagate with their 5-year warranties.

Anyway, so I transferred one of the hard drives to the ReplayTV unit in the Media Room. It was the one which had the HD failure. In addition, the tuner had stopped working when we had an electrical storm.

I then put in a 400 GB hard drive in the other unit, which previously had the HD which was moved to replace the failed HD.

When formatting the configuration, I made sure to leave 1 GB available for photos, so that I can use the Web Remote function. This allows me to actually access the machine as if I were pressing the remote buttons across the Internet. The image of the screens (only software screen images, not TV images) are transferred back so I can see what screen I am on.

And for some good news, the tuner which was previously not working started to work again. Looks like it just needed some rest.

By the way, I found a good article (and video) on how to show videos from your PC on your TV by using ReplayTV:

http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/426/Play_Your_PCs_Video_Files_on_ReplayTV.html