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6.6 Time-shifting function
Time-shift lets you pause, replay, or skip commercials during watching live TV, without interrupting
an ongoing recording session. Time-shift gives you absolute new feeling over how you watch television,
which you never have before. For example, you watch your favorite sporting game, pause the live action
and help yourself to an ice-cold beverage from the fridge.
Time-shift temporary saves the video to your hard disk for a specified period of time. When you return to
your seat, you can resume viewing the program from the point where you left.
Caution
Time-shift can use significant disk space and cannot automatically skip commercials.
6.6.1 Additional Discussion
In Time-shift, you are recording to and playing back from the same video file or buffer. You can
playback from various locations in that buffer. Similar to video playback, you can pause, fast-forward, and
rewind. A major difference, however, is that RA330 software is simultaneously recording live television
while playing back from the buffer.
That means you will see greater CPU utilization during Time-shift because you are simultaneously
recording and playing recorded videos. At full DVD quality, time-shift can require up to a 1.7 GHz CPU and
above.
6.6.2 Time-Shift usage