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Originally Posted by TheDon
The end user application is being able to rewind within multiple buffers.
Say I'm watching a film on one channel, then I want to flick over to the news or something in an ad break, I might switch back after the film has already came back on and so can then rewind the bit I missed.
Or I might be watching two football matches at once, focusing on one but flicking over to the other to check the score, and if someone's scored I could rewind it to see the goal.
There's plenty of applications for it.
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In addition, it's worth noting that you need two available tuners for it to work.
I've had instances when I've been flicking between two channels in between ad breaks and in the mean time a couple of recordings start on other channels wiping the buffer of one of said channels