What I lay a lot of emphasis on the purchase, was that the changeover from one program to another relatively quickly of goes. This device may not be the fastest but it is acceptable.
The recording of TV programs with an external hard drive works without problems. What bothers me, however, very, is that when playing HD-program recording a forward or backward coil is not possible. This one is forced to watch commercial breaks in full length to. Here should be mentioned in passing that the recordings are stored encrypted and can only be played by the receiver (but almost all HD models so). The programming of automatic recordings is solved somewhat cumbersome.
All in all I am very satisfied with the model and can recommend a purchase.