Maybe I missed this before but when letting my baby hold the remote last night she stumbled across something I didn't realise was possible.

When watching TV (buffered or live) if you type in the time that you want to go back to using the number keys it will automatically bring up the timebar and enter the time that you entered in the little box (the one that usually appears if you press play followed by the left or right arrows). Then press okay and it will take you straight to the timepoint you wanted.

So, if it's 19:26 and you want to rewind back to a program that started at 18:00, just type 1800 in with the number keys and hitting okay will take you directly to 18:00 hours.

Same thing with recordings except you type in the number of minutes that you want, so if you are at 18 mins and want to rewind to 15 mins just type in 0015 and hot okay.

This must be the fastest way to navigate the buffer or a recording, rather than using fast forward/rewind or the arrow keys.

Hope this helps some other people (or maybe you all knew about this feature already?). If it wasn;t for my daughter I'd probably never have realised

Thank yoyu very much sdesign for that ,I certainly didn't know, as you will have already no doubt realised, the user manual is as much use as... and doesn't inform the user about a lot of features. In fact, I think that I missed putting in my wish list for the user manual to be completely re-written, as quite a lot of features have been found out quite by chance, anyway thanks again as this feature is quite useful.

I knew you could do that but thought you had to bring up the time shift bar first.

I just checked. You dont need the bar showing. As soon as you press a number key the 'Time Bar' is displayed.

When watching live does this mean that pressing 1,5 does not tune to ABC1 then? On almost every TV, VCR, DVDR and PVR I've come across the number buttons are normally used to tune to a numbered channel?!?

Cliff

That is odd - because I have frequently used the number keys for channel selection.

That sounds very useful. Can it be used to move forward through recordings from the "library" ( I think you already said that but I'm not certain whether you were just refering to current recordings). What is the easiest way of finding the numerical value of the current position on a recording? I'm thinking of using the feature to skip adverts.

Colin

Ah yes, you need to press play first when watching live or timeslipped TV so that it brings the timebar up first, or it will change channel instead

When viewing a recording you don't need to hit play though. Just use the number keys and it brings the timebar up automatically

Yes, can use it when viewing a recording from the playlist.



Just hit play, and the time bar comes up showing the current position (amount of time into the recording).

Yes, I used this feature last night for advert skip and it works quite well. Still need to use the reply and ad skip to find the exact point though.

Thinking of giving my baby the remote more often to see what else she comes up with :lol:

Thanks for the clarification. This box gets better and better. Just need to get the reliability issues sorted.

Thinking about this it is probably easier to set the COMMERCIAL SKIP to 60sec and press that 4 times then use REPLAY maybe a couple of times. I'm not sure how consistent advert breaks are on the different channels?

Colin

It's funny, my misses is convinced that it skips each advert (rather than the 30 secs that I've set it to). I keep telling her she's wrong but she won't have it.

What sort of person would want to be able to skip individual adverts!? That really is taking TV viewing to the extreme!

Not sure if the following has been mentioned before-when in TV guide which say BBC1 to Channel 4 is showing,you can enter 82 for Sky News,and it then shows Sky News and the following three stations.

On second thoughts, the easiest way has got to be to look at the front of the PVR. The current position is shown there during playback (isn't it?)

I've just tried it and it didn't work.

I'm watching live TV with one hour or so in the buffer. I press 'Play', the time bar pops up and while it's up I start entering a time and after the first number is pressed the 'Channel Number' three digit indicator appears and it accepts the first three digits only as a channel. No 'Jump to Time' function.

What am I doing wrong?

I just got home and tried to do it again on live TV and can't. Must only be possible with recordings. My mistake

That's too simple

Colin

Having sat and fiddled around with this i find it does not work with live television only recordings, which is still a good thing. Nice find

The sort that wants to see the new trailer for VWXYZ movie or who works in advertising and wants to check that they did show his movie correctly at XX:YY as he paid a few hundred thousand pounds for the privilege!

Humax definitely catering for the minority market there...

Matt