
26Recording 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
With a large hard drive, you can store many hours of record- ings
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.