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I understand what you're saying, but we became very skilled at using the buffers. There was no accidental channel changing, it was a well coordinated and deliberate process. For example, we may choose to watch House Rules which ends at 8:45 pm, but also want to watch NCIS which starts at 8:30. Rather than record NCIS, we would put the second tuner on 10 and watch House Rules on seven. When it finished, hit the LiveTV button and rewind NCIS back to the beginning. No need to record it.

I guess we're just going to have to change our habits and record everything. Our TiVo only has a 160gb hard drive, and we've never filled it, so having a 1tb drive in the Skippa will make it easier.

As long as you can actually watch a program while it's being recorded, that's fine. My dodgy LG PVR wouldn't let you watch a show until after it had finished recording.

I'm a long time fan of my TiVo, but it's randomly resetting itself and the hard drive is quite noisy. So I decided to bite the bullet and pre-ordered a Skippa.

I do have one question which I can't find the answer to. One of the best (and most frequently used) features of TiVo is the Live TV button. Each of the tuners has a 30 minute buffer. You can watch one channel, then hit the Live TV button to switch to the other tuner and rewind up to 30 minutes. Very useful for overlapping programs you don't necessarily want to record.

So, does the Skippa offer a similar feature? Is there a simple way to switch between the three tuners and rewind through the buffer on each?