Explore Your Entertainment Options

Explore Your Entertainment Options

With the Explorer® Digital Video Recorder (DVR), you can explore TV in a way never possible before:

Record your favorite programs when you’re busy

Create your own personal video library by recording and storing your favorite programs

Watch your recordings anytime you want

Pause live TV for up to 1 hour without missing a minute

Use instant replay anytime you want on live TV or while playing back a recording

Share recordings with other Scientific-Atlanta digital set-tops in your MR-DVR system

This guide describes how to use the following Explorer DVRs

For standard-definition TVs (SDTVs): Explorer 8000, Explorer 8240, Explorer 8300, Explorer 8300MR

For high-definition TVs (HDTVs): Explorer 8000HD, Explorer 8240HD, Explorer 8300HD, Explorer 8300HD MR

Note: Some features described in this document are not available on all DVR models. For more information, contact your cable service provider.

Explorer Model

*Storage Capacity

8000

Up to 50 hours of non-HD programs

 

(based on an 80 GB capacity hard drive)

8000HD

Up to 90 hours of non-HD programs

 

Up to 20 hours of HD programs

 

(based on a 160 GB capacity hard drive)

 

 

8240, 8300, 8300MR

Up to 50 hours of non-HD programs

 

(based on an 80 GB capacity hard drive)

8240HD, 8300HD, Up to 90 hours of non-HD programs

8300HD MRUp to 20 hours of HD programs (based on a 160 GB capacity hard drive)

*The total program hours that can be stored depends upon the format and data rate of the programming source, as well as the DVR hard drive storage capacity.

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