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Not as sexy but just as important is a feature that most DVD recorders lack: control over cable and satellite boxes via an IR blaster or a serial cable (both included). Humax and TiVo are pledging to add TiVoToGo support later in 2005, but since you can already convert your videos to a transportable DVD format, its current omission won't be missed by many. Other TiVo-only goodies include WishLists (making it easy to record any show with a favorite star, director, or genre), Season Passes (to record all first-run episodes of your favorite programs), and Home Network Features (which let you schedule recordings through TiVo's Web site, stream music and photos from your networked PC, and watch programs recorded on other networked TiVos within your home). You also get the ability to pause and rewind live TV, capture dozens of hours of programming on the internal hard disk (40 hours on the DRT400 80 hours on the DRT800), and play back one show while recording another. You get a 14-day real-time onscreen electronic programming guide (EPG) for antenna, satellite, or cable.
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The Humax DRT series offers all the great DVR functions that made TiVo a household name. The menu is a model of intuitive design, especially compared to the convoluted systems used on competing combo recorders from Panasonic and Philips.
The Humax uses the superb TiVo onscreen interface for all standard DVR and DVD functions, including setting up the device, listing recorded shows, displaying the electronic program guide, searching the guide, and controlling DVD recording and playback.
Most users will need only one remote to handle DVD, TV, DVR, and channel-surfing commands. You can program the control to power on a variety of televisions, and the Humax changes channels on your cable or satellite box. We found operation intuitive and comfortable. Humax modified the standard TiVo mini barbell remote, throwing in a few more keys to cover DVD functionality.
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A flip-down panel on the left-hand side hides a full set of front-panel A/V inputs, including S-Video and, on the DRT800, a FireWire connection. Other front-panel elements include a small, five-way joystick for maneuvering the onscreen menus, six standard video-transport controls (Play, Stop, Rewind, Eject, and so on), and the TiVo Home button. A readout on the right-hand side displays status information and the clock/timer. A centered disc tray sits directly above two message lights, which glow orange to acknowledge signals from the remote and red during hard disk or DVD recording. They're each housed in a rather bland silver-and-black body that could easily be mistaken for that of an old VCR. The Humax DRT400 and DRT800 models look all but identical from the outside. The DRT400 and DRT800 are great recorders-we'd just like to see Humax lower its initial price tag or offer TiVo Basic service as well.
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By comparison, the Toshiba RS-TX series offers larger hard drive capacities and works straight out of the box with the stripped-down TiVo Basic service-the full-service upgrade is entirely optional. But the seemingly affordable price tags on the Humax models have a catch: they require the addition of full TiVo service for $13 a month or a $299 one-time charge. Pioneer's monopoly finally ended when Humax entered the game with a pair of similar offerings: the $499 DRT800 and, more recently, the $399 DRT400, which offers a half-as-capacious hard drive, and forgoes the FireWire input found on its big brother. It was a near-perfect marriage of technologies-one that made the 810H the highest-rated recorder on CNET for the better part of 12 months.
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TiVo upped the ante in 2003 by licensing its technology to Pioneer to create the DVR-810H, the first TiVo that could also archive TV programs to an integrated DVD recorder. Your cable company may offer a free digital video recorder (DVR) with a subscription, but chances are it's a poor cousin to TiVo, the industry leader in features and ease of use.
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