[Pincho Paxton]

Originally Posted by ramjet

you will find inconsistencies in many translated manuals , and errors too

but this recorder does not have twin tuners or pause live tv , no matter who tells you what

it has two tuners ( not one as mentioned earlier ) but can only use one at a time , so you cannot view one channel and record another channel or source , you can only see what it is recording or use limited functions to view dvd or previous recordings while it is busy

sony may not know the difference , or care , or the significance may be lost in translation

pause live tv is available on humax pvr,s etc and is where you instruct it to buffer the programmes by continuous recording , so you can rewind and watch something you may have missed. the 870 does not do that , but if you have pressed the rec button , you can rewind from a later point back to when you started the recording , but you cannot change channel once its recording whereas a pvr will let you channel hop and still carry on buffering the recording for you

its a common misconception in this recorder forum that pause live tv is on the sony and the pioneer , when its chase live tv and only if you have started to record , as it cannot rewind back to anything prior to the rec button being pressed

so if you were to watch a footy match , and pressed record at the start of the game , and never stopped it or changed channel , you then have the ability to pause live tv , rewind it , chase tv etc , but its only because you initiated the recording before needing the function , it does not do it for you like a humax can be set to do

It's not quite like that. The Sony has a TV Pause button which does pause the TV, and automatically starts recording the channel. you can also change channels whilst it is doing this, and the channel will change when you catch up with the recording.

It's rewind Live TV that is missing.