Yes, I understand, and I think that would be great as I, too, on occasion watch it as it is being recorded (chasing playback). It is one nice thing about the TiVo. However, I doubt that would ever change as it would be a pretty big challenge for Dish to do this without risking patent violation for such a minor feature that most on Dish really don't find at all a problem. Dish has the engineers working on the 922 and the new menu changes to come to all ViP's very soon.
I think one will have to accept a lot of the very small operational differences of each DVR. I can fill a list of things the TiVo doesn't do that Dish DVR's do, but TiVo isn't going to put effort in making those changes for the same patent concerns and TiVo fanboys just don't find the lacking features at all important to them when what they really want (myself included) is at least a 3rd tuner and a stable HD UI on the Premiere. I for one accept those little warts as one would in different makes of cars and how each seems to have a different design for the dashboard and different chimes, but not all the desired annunciaters and using red for the speedometer is distracting as one thinks of a hazard warning light instead of using green or blue and I can pop the trunk from the glove compartment in this car, but not the other and I don't like the environment controls on one care but love them in another. Such is each DVR on the minuscule scale. Like how various brands of VCR's were different in many small ways, but we accept it as each company working with proprietary limitations.
