One pauses and records just like the other? I suspect that you have not used the Shaw Gateway system because if you had you would know that isn't true.
On the Gateway system you could press the red rec button and whatever is on at the time will start recording immediately. On the Ignite system there is also a red record button. But when you press it a screen pops up and asks you if you just want to record this episode or all episodes. So you have to click just this episode. After you select that a new screen pops up and you have to press Confirm or Cancel. After that a recording is set pop up appears to block more of the screen. After a few seconds it disappears. Though so there is no way that the Ignite system can match the recording capability of Gateway.
As far as pausing is concerned with the Gateway system. You could pause the movie or ball game by pressing the pause button just before you switch channels, then go to the other channel and watch whatever it is you want to watch until the commercial comes on. Then hit pause in that channel, switch back to the original channel and the game or movie will pick up at the point where you paused it. In the Ignite system, even if you have gone through the steps to set the channel that you were watching to record, if you press pause and then switch to another Channel to watch a different program for a while and then switch back, your original program will not pick up where the pause happened. If you want to get back to that point in the program you have to rewind and try to guess where you paused before changing channels. There is no comparison between the two systems, absolutely no comparison.
Here is a very simple one for you. Every remote that I have had on a tv, vcr, pvr, cable box, or any other TV control remote there has been a Go Back button or Return to Previous channel. You know the button I mean. Click it and it goes back to the last Channel you were looking at. On the ignite system when you click the go back button a screen pops up and there are nine thumbnails which represent the last 9 channels that you have visited. So instead of one click to go back now you have to click twice. I know there is surely someone on here who will say so what you only have to click one more time. True, but why make it more complicated than it needs to be. Someone else will probably save yeah but you can go back to something you were watching yesterday, that's handy. It would be if you could actually see what it was that you were watching but what you actually see is just a thumbnail of TSN 5 for example. That means nothing.
I resisted changing to the new system 4 years ago because I had heard that the pause and record system was terrible on this ignite crap, but this time they gave me an ultimatum so I was forced to switch to the ignite boxes and channel guide. To be honest it is worse than I had heard.
