There is an alternative in the TV Hub, but that has no recording facility at all.
Have you split your aerial lead so you have a separate one going to the TV? This will allow you to watch the TV while the box is recording. Aerial splitters and cables are quite cheap and can be purchased from places such as Amazon or supermarkets.
As for rewinding, the box uses something called time shift. To get this to work you need to press pause when watching a channel and then play after a couple of seconds. You can then rewind to the point you pressed the pause button. You have to do this each time you change channel.
There are alternatives such as Freeview Play boxes and the BT Pro Box (which BT customers have sold or are selling on) that can be bought quite cheaply too which record more than 1 channel while watching another.
Hope this helps.
Btw, recording boxes are getting scarcer from internet providers and are I think, limited to BT, Virgin and Sky and their associated higher costs.
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