I was wondering if anyone else had noticed this as an issue - or is it just my machine. I tried pressing 'TV pause' and a message came on screen saying' 'unable to begin TV pause'. I checked in the trouble shooting guide which said this happens when hard drive is full, but I had 110GB left on HDD. At the same time as this problem - I could not turn off the m,achine if it was recording anything. I deleted approx 10GB of programmes - and TV pause was back working again, and everything else working aswell. Does TV pause need over 100GB to work? The instructions said TV pause does not use HDD anyway?
Any one know what could be going on??

I've not experienced the problems you report.

I'm pretty sure the Pause facility will record to the HDD though. I have occasionally used the Pause facility and I had a lot less free space on the HDD than you so I don't think that should be an issue.

I'd recommend you check the smallprint in the manual which might mention reasons why the Pause facility doesn't work. Perhaps also look in the troubleshooting section.

Only thing I can think might be happening is you have the default recording mode set rather high, e.g. HQ or even HQ+ and this does require a lot of free HDD space to allow Pause to work.

Hope that helps,
Stuart

Haven't eperienced the problem described above with the pause function but when I have paused TV and fast forwarded through the adverts I've reach a point were I've caught up with live TV.
I was expecting a seamless transition between the paused (delayed) viewing and the live TV but instead the machine seemed to stutter for a second or so and then continue with the playback.
It was as if it keeps a 'buffer' of a minute or so and it won't let you past this to completely catch up with live TV.
Not really a problem but a niggle none the less.