Well, I have been going back and forth on this $329 deal, especially since I ditched my digital cable service (they wanted to charge me $16 a month for it.) So I'm back to regular old cable, and have one less reason to avoid the ReplayTV. But from what I've been reading, channel changes on the RTV's are painfully slow (4 seconds is normal) and that's just not acceptable. I'm a compulsive channel changer, so that just wouldn't work for me. (I know, in theory I'd be watching a lot of recorded stuff and have no need to change channels, but when I watch sports, I usually wanna watch them live, and switch between games.) 4 seconds is just absurd!

So I'm gonna wait until the next gen RTV units and see if they fix this problem. I see no reason why they can't get channel changes done in less than a second...