Hello, to my understanding of the standard, the status 2 shall be used to set the recording device into a state, in which a recording can start immediately (e.g. power up the harddisk). The recording itself shall start on status 4. In my special case I now have advertisments at the beginning of the recording, which were not recorded when status 2 was not used. Regards O. Holler -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal f?r Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer