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Re: Dish Network

ReplayTV hit the markey January 1999. Tivo's first was March 31st-ish same year. I was very interested in the "PVR". I own a ReplayTV and am familar with their legacy. Back when they had their SonicBlue site and ReplayTV site it used to be up on that site.

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From ZDNET »updates.zdnet.com/tags/replaytv.html

"Even though ReplayTV beat it to market by a few months in 1999, it was TiVo that quickly became synonymous with digital video recorder DVR..."

From Wikipedia: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayTV

"The first ReplayTV model launched in January 1999, two months ahead of rival TiVo."
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