ReplayTV

ReplayTV was an American company that made a brand of digital video recorders, consumer devices that capture television programming to an internal hard disk for later viewing. It was founded in September 1997 by Anthony Wood, who later founded Roku, and he led it as president and chief executive until August 2001. The first model was shown in January 1999 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, alongside a rival recorder from TiVo, and sales to consumers began in 1999. SONICblue bought the company in 2001 and was sued over the ability of ReplayTV units to skip commercials. Its assets passed to D and M Holdings and later to DirecTV, and the hardware business was wound down in 2005.