The 80 gig version of the PVR 8000T does not have a second tuner. Aside from the hard drive size it is identical in terms of hardware to the 40 gig model and therefore you can only watch what you're recording.
Not an issue for us, but it may be for some. To be honest at the price, it didn't bother me one bit.
It would be nice if you could playback a recording at the same time as recording something else, but they should really focus on getting the core functionality working well before attempting to add such features.
The latest software seems to be reasonably stable, but still with some quirks.
The major one I'm experiencing at present is a corruption to *all* scheduled recordings made when the unit is on standby. EG Leave unit on standby, it turns on automatically to record and then goes back to standby when finished.
Playback a recording and 4mins in without fail, it skips and jumps forward by a minute or so, as though the bitstream has become temporarily garbled. This has now been observed on at least half a dozen recordings. If you leave the unit on and it starts a scheduled recording, it seems to be fine.
Having spoken with Humax they were not previously aware of this issue (but they are now
) and they've asked me to try a couple of things to see if it makes a difference.