I have just read the biggest load of nonsense I've read in a while on the YouView community forum.
I'm afraid the Humax (BT) YouView and new Humax Freeview Playback boxes record Live TV to a memory chip and actual recordings to the Hard Disk.I've confirmed that's how it works on the Humax's Freeview Playback boxes
Absolute rubbish as far as the Freeviw playback unit (FVP 4000T) is concerned, and for that matter every freeview/freesat PVR manufactured by Humax, certainly from the 9200 onwards.
Live tv (buffer) is recorded to a partition on the HDD named .tsr (time shift recording)
I do wish people who do not have a clue what they are talking about would..... insert your own explitive
The buffer contents can be transferred to a recording by simply pressing the rec button, the current programme and buffer contents will be saved to the HDD.