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ReplayTV company history:
ReplayTV was founded in 1997 and got its first DVR on the market in 1999.
Many sources credit ReplayTV with being the first DVR to market, if only
by a matter of weeks before TiVo. (For
ReplayTV model history click here.) In 2001, ReplayTV was
purchased by SONICblue and the first Ethernet enabled ReplayTV, the 40XX
series was released late in 2001. In March of 2003 SONICblue filed
for bankruptcy and in April of 2003 the ReplayTV and Rio product lines
were purchased by D&M Holdings, the parent company to the Denon and
Marantz brands. D&M Holdings then created Digital Networks North
America (DNNA) to handle the ReplayTV and Rio products. Within two
years, DNNA would decide to focus on DVR software and software licensing
and abandon DVR hardware manufacturing entirely.