Topfield TF 5800 PVR user manual Recording and playing TV Programmes, How your PVR records

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 —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.