Posted by Mike Redrobe on 10/31/44 11:30

Tumbleweed wrote:
> "Mike Redrobe" <mike@redrobe.net> wrote in message
> news:c_68f.138803$G8.69425@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> Ian wrote:
>>> Roobarb wrote:
>>>> I am confused about the time slip feature on DVD RAM machines.
>>>>
>>>> As I understand it, a Sky+ box allows one to pause and rewind live
>>>> tv. How does it do this, does it 'record' the programme you are
>>>> watching into a buffer? How far back can you go?
>>>
>>> Sky+ is a hard drive recorder and uses disc space to record the
>>> programme you are pausing.
>>
>> Its there before you pause, its always recording the current channel
>> on a half hour loop.
>>
> <pedant>...or whatever time you configured it to record. </pedant>

I know you can alter the length of the buffer on sky+ if that's what you
meant

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Mike

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