What is Trick Play?

[hasan]

Sorry to be so ill-informed, but I have seen this "trick play" phrase used quite a bit and must have missed it looking in the manual. I see it is mentioned in the release notes for the new firmware.

What does it refer to and how is it used?

...hasan, N0AN

[Earl Bonovich]

TrickPlay:

- Pause
- RW
- FF
- Jump Back
- Forward Advance
- Skip To Tick (Forward and Reverse)
- Jump to End
- Jump to Beginning

Basically anything that has to do with shifting around in the playback of a program

[hasan]

TrickPlay:

- Pause
- RW
- FF
- Jump Back
- Forward Advance
- Skip To Tick (Forward and Reverse)
- Jump to End
- Jump to Beginning

Basically anything that has to do with shifting around in the playback of a program

Thanks Earl, I've been using it, but didn't know its "fancy" name.

...hasan, N0AN

[rtphokie]

TrickPlay:

- Pause
- RW
- FF
- Jump Back
- Forward Advance
- Skip To Tick (Forward and Reverse)
- Jump to End
- Jump to Beginning

Basically anything that has to do with shifting around in the playback of a program

Are those concepts so difficult for the average consumer that they've got to come up with a marketing term for it? Or is this another example of "Please TiVo, dont sue us".

[Earl Bonovich]

No, actually I have heard Trick Play, or some form of it used to refer to the same "techniques" on other DVRs (Comcast for example) on commercials and stuff.

Same with the Akimbo receiver and some others I have seen.

What else should they call it as a whole? Program Movement? FF/RW but what aobut the other things...