A:Answer This is a question you will need to ask the manufacturer. The Tablo doesn’t currently have purely manual recording, but I have found the program recording works well. It does have a way to extend a recording for up to 3 hours beyond the length the guide expects a recording to be. So, it should be able to record programs like the World Series which is totally unpredictable, by just setting the Tablo to record the program but telling it to extend the record time by a few hours. Similarly you can tell the Tablo to start recording a program up to 10 minutes early, or up to 2 minutes late.