It makes perfect sense to me, and is so much easier to press stop, this takes you straight to the media list where you can delete it. This requires much less button pressing than you describe, and does not cause any frustration whatsoever.It makes perfect sense to me that If I select delete on a recording in the media list I want to delete it. What I don't want to do is to go into the media list only to find out I can't delete a recording because it is still playing, then have to exit out of the media list, press stop and then go back into the media list and eventually delete the recording. Frustrating !
I am also running a pair of MyStuffed Toppy 5800's, and am aware that they allow you to delete recordings whilst they are still playing. I'm sure that you will cope with re-training your brain, it's no big deal.Previous to the Humax I had a Topfield 5800 running MyStuff and I never pressed Stop before deleting recordings. There was no need for this additional key press so I never pressed it. I now have to re-train my brain to always stop the playback of the recording before attempting to delete and in the meantime I will have to suffer with the frustration of Humax not deleting recordings when I ask it to.
Maybe it should pop up a message saying
'If you are trying to delete this recording, please exit out of the media list, press stop and then try again. I could stop the recoding for you but I can't be bothered'