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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon
no, I've actually seen a freeview box in a shop which isnt a PVR but which has a short 'pause' facility via a small in built buffer (unless it was labelled incorrectly in the shop!). perhaps that's what this bloke was thinking of.
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Ah! I have not seen those myself, but I guess the technology is the same as the PVR just using a memory buffer rather than a hard drive. However, you would need a lot of memory to store 30 minutes of video so I guess it would be a smaller buffer period.