Product conforms to the description with actual ability to record on an external hard drive, a chain while we watch another one provided you have a digital TV; in the case of an analog TV, ie without tuner, only strings of the same bouquet can be recorded and viewed separately (FR2, FR3, LCP .. or the bouquet of TV in HD for example ). All this is well described in a leaflet in French moreover comprehensive, unfortunately a little small for presbyopic. I even managed to record live channel viewed on my old VHS (SCART connection cable, HDMI cable for TV). Comprehensive, intuitive remote control. Overall, very good price performance.