Re: can you record a program after watching part of it

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how does the pc know what to buffer if your not watching it.
my hard drive is large but not big enough to buffer all the channels
available for as long as it takes just in case I come in half way through



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"Nigel Barker" <nigel@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:12:26 -0500, "Nickyrock" <nickyrock@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

say you are tuned to the channel a 60 minute program is showing and 30
min
into it you decide you would like to record it, how do you make it record
from the beginning and not from the current point you are watching?

Another MCE Top Five Question:-) Sorry can't be done.

What?!? I thought that was exactly the reason that the stupid TV buffering
to the hard drive can't be stopped.



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