As If By Magic? [ Edited ]

[zilch]

I started to record the opening ceremony of the olympics part way through the show (in HD). On playback, the box presented me with the whole programme, from the very start. It has never done this with other partial recordings in SD. How on earth did it do this and where did the first section come from? Very impressed!

[swt4ajp · Accepted solution]

hi

its the buffer it stores 60 minutes so if you hit record it will look to when the program started and record from there

[zilch]

Thank you, I didn't know that was possible - it was a nice surprise!

[swt4ajp]

lol i only found out by the off chance the same way

[BexTech]

When did it start to be able to do this?

This was something many people missed when moving from a Sky+ / Sky+HD box.

[swt4ajp]

i think its been there for a while

bu not 100% sure

[andrewilley]

It only works if the tuner was on that channel before you started watching though, it can't buffer every channel in the list. That includes when the box is 'off' (during which time it's still buffering anyway)

Andre

[AMWSmith]

If you hit the info button and then goto the last page it will tell you what the other 2 tuners are tuned into and it also buffers then in standby as I found out when I was too late to watch a epp of family guy and found the tuner had it's 1 hour buffer and I was able to rewind the tivo to the start.

What would I do without TiVo.

[sjp123]

and, with judicious use of tuner toggling you can keep up with 2 relatively slow moving sports at the same time.

womans weight lifting and archery being two current examples of these.