[stlnative]

It does have it’s limits...

If you want to set it to record something in advance just like a VCR you can do that. If you want to record on the fly you can do that.

If you start a show like Greta’s show but don’t hit record when it starts and if you decide you want to record Greta some 15 minutes into the show. Then you can rewind the back 15 minutes and start replaying and recording from the beginning of the show. You will actually be 15 minutes behind the real time if you did that.

Or let’s say you are tuned into Greta’s show and you are 5 minutes into the show and you get a phone call that last’s through the whole show but you leave the DVR on and tuned to Greta’s show. You can rewind all the way back to beginning of Greta’s show and replay it in real time mode. BUT if you would change the channel it would wipe it out of the cache and you could not go back to it unless you actually hit the record button on the DVR to record Greta’s show.

I cannot record one channel and watch another channel at the same with mine but newer ones will allow to do this.

[KsSunflower]

With mine...if I decide half way through Greta that I want to record the whole show...I just hit record, I can keep watching it, but the whole show is recorded. I don’t have to rewind back to record from the beginning..it has that in the cache.

I can record/watch two shows at a time. So, I can record Nancy Grace, but watch Greta...and be recording Greta too. But, I can’t do three. So, I can’t record Greta, Nancy Grace and then watch something else.

[mom4kittys]

Cool, can you burn to dvd/cd if you need to?

[spectre]

If I'm watching a movie, (or anything else) and the phone rings, I can hit "pause" and it freezes the screen. Then I just hit "play" and it starts up again.

So cool..