which TV recorder?
victor mel
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Hi, how am looking for a HD recorder. My budget is around £130. Any recommendations?
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victor mel
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Posts: 4,963 victor mel
Posts: 4,963 victor mel
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Freeview or FreeSat?
http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/Direct/prod/e4cdfbf3-14c2-4f8f-ac60-b08241aeacef
The Humax box is the most advanced you will get for a number of reasons.
Ignoring the major advantages that you get if you add the custom firmware add on
1 Afaik It's the only currently available box that allows you to copy recordings to a usb device or directly to a PC, so you can use them on other devices. You can even do the same with HD ones using Foxy.
2 It has a media player capability (including over your network) so you can watch content stored on your PC foe example.
The downside is VOD basically is restricted to iplayer (In HD as well) and Youtube. The Upside is using the CF you can record them.
The Humax Freeview HD PVRs all have a network connection. Though I'm wondering why that would be a problem. If you don't want to use it simply don't plug it into anything and don't bother setting it up. It has absolutely zero impact on the basic function of recording telly programmes off the aerial.
Don't know about the Panny but the HDR FOX T2 has rf loopthrough. There are two sby modes, Low Power On which minimises power consumption in sby and Low Power Off which displays the clock 24/7 and powers the rf loop amplifier. However for 99% of users you might as well save money and fit a passive splitter. Being digital TV it has no effect at all on picture quality.
I've had one for about 4 years and its been totally faultless.
I'm certain mine does not have series link........ Did yours come with series link from new, or did you get this function after a firmware update ?
According to bits of information I can find on t'interweb it does have series link. Though all the links to a manual that I can find appear to be broken I did find a thread on another forum that says Series Link is got at by pressing OK on a programme in the EPG and selecting "Reserve Series". If you press the Record button then it only sets a recording for the particular episode of the programme you've selected, not the series.
I'll try that later....... when this model came out about 5+ yrs ago, it was discussed on avforums and I'm sure it was mentioned that it didn't have series link. Or maybe I've just assumed wrongly.
I'll give it a go anyway.
What model is it you've got. I could only find a DHR8205U that matches your description of Freeview HD and 500GB storage. And this
https://www.avforums.com/threads/digitalstream-dhr-8205-faq-thread-dhr-8203u-and-dhr-8206u.1362337/
Section 17 mentions Series Link, or rather Series Recording Reservation.
Yes, mine is that model. Just dug out the manual and no mention anywhere of it having series link......
But i'll be f*****, you're right........just went to the guide and hitting ok on a program gives you the option of 'reserve single' or 'reserve series'.
Had this box over 4 years under the misapprehension that it didn't have series link..... what a prat.
Cheers.