[snaithg]

One last attempt to clear up any remaining misunderstandings.

First of all I didn't mean to confuse you any further regarding the Twin Tuners issue. It is generally assumed that when discussing PVR's that Twin tuners means the ability to record two channels at once. I automatically assumed that this was also your definition. The use of the "Dual" or "Two" tuners terminology is just pure marketing hype to try and pretend the specification of the device is higher than it really is.

With regards to pausing live TV, this IS in fact supported on this model no matter what others might say. However it may not behave in the way that you would like.

When watching a "live" programme from the recorder, you can then Press the "Pause TV" button on the remote. After a delay of about 2 to 3 secs the TV picture will pause. From this point onwards you are recording the programme that you were watching. If you now press "Play" you will go into "Chase Play" mode. You can then use some of the normal DVD controls to control the playback. When you have finished you have to "stop" the recording to resume "live" TV. The programme is then left as a recording on your HDD which you have to remember to delete.

This is nowhere near as good as the Sky solution where you already have up to 60mins of "live" recording cached on the HDD. With Sky you can press pause and it will pause immediately, you can also rewind TV as far back as the point at which you changed to that channel to a maximum of 60mins (depending on settings), you can exit this mode at any time and reactivate it again at your leisure. Also there are no messy recordings left over to delete (unless you asked it to record as well).

Sorry if the above seems complicated.


Graham.