Am i missing something here? if i want to start watching the start of a scheduled recording while its still taking place,how do i do it?i now its no problem in time slip, but usually the pvr is in standby when this is happening, so i dont always have that option. I did have Digifution for about a week, and although i hated it, im sure you could do it with that

With the humax, you can't.

Not really a big problem in my opinion (others disagree). Once you have an extensive library of recordings to watch, you simply choose to watch somthing else until the recording is finished.

There is a workaround - stop the recording, and then re-start it immediately by instant record. Then watch the first part. You may have to repeat the process if you come in less than half way through.

Tony, Re: Chaseplay workaround - Yes thats exactly what i did with MOTD on Saturday. Clumsy but it works.

Ok thanks for that, will give that a try. As i say, had a Digifution which although was a horrible machine did it without any problems. I guess im being picky. Still i like the thing anyway

I'm really stuggling to get my head around this since I've been able to chase playback on my 8000 whilst recording since day 1, nearly 2 years ago. What were Humax thinking of??

Given that the 9200 is a twin-tuner device, can you record a channel with one tuner, whilst 'only' watching the same channel with the other and do the pause/rewind/skip through the adverts stuff on the 'watching' channel?

I know that this method wouldn't help in every circumstance but could it be another work-around??

This is the work around. You can chase play using the "live buffer". This only works if you leave the 9200 tuned to the channel you are recording.

I don't think Humax have delibrately missed this functionality - I think it is just an error. Hopefully they will fix it soon.

It would have to have been one hell of an error for none of the techy/TV aware folks at Humax to never have spotted it during all their testing.

I'd say it was a deliberate omission (perhaps because they were having technical problems getting the implementation to work). But there's got to be a VERY strong chance it is something they were trying to get to work and that they may have succeeded in time for the first OTA

Cliff

I hope you're right, but I'm not optimistic because there's nothing in the instruction manual about chasing playback (as far as I can see) and I don't recall Humax saying that the 9200 would have that feature - I just assumed it would because the 8000 does and its really useful.

The 8000 only has it by default, you can't change channel so you can't clear the buffer, if you do the same on the 9200 it also has chase play.

Well they wouldn't have put something in the manual that was working in the software as bought would they? I guess, if it's true that it's something they were trying to get working for 1st release, that there might have been early drafts of the manual that mentioned it but they'd been edited out when they realised it wouldn't make it for launch

Then again maybe they never planned chaseplay and hoped "no one will notice" ?

Cliff