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26 Recording and playing TV programmes
Chapter 3
Recording and playing TV
programmes
At the heart of your Topfield PVR is its ability to record and
play back television programmes using its hard disk. You
don’t need to worry about finding a blank tape, or recording
over something important—and, unlike a VCR, the quality of
the recordings is just the same as the original broadcast.
With a large hard drive, you can store many hours of record-
ings —roughly 80 hours if your PVR has a 160Gb disk, or 125
hours on one fitted with a 250Gb disk.
In this chapter, we’ll explain how you can set your PVR to
record programmes for you, how to play them back, and some
of the other basic functions that will help you make the most
of your TF 5800.
3.1 How your PVR records
Before we start looking at the different ways you can record,
we’ll explain each of them, so you can decide which is the best
option to use.