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Freeview recording
I have just bought a Freeview digital recorder.
It's fine connected to my old TV, but what happens when eventually (soon I hope) I connect the recorder to a new Freeview television? Which Freeview will actually be recorded, and will there be any problems? Presumably thousands of viewers do have this set up? |
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The recorder has its own tuner and will record a freeview program without even being connected to a tv, only needs an aerial. It only needs to be connected to a tv so you can program and watch what you record. The tv will have its own tuner and connecting the two of them will make no difference to what you watch.
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As above, the type of TV is totally irrelevant to the operation of the recorder. It only uses the TV as a display device, it makes no use whatsoever of any other features of the TV.
If your recorder is a twin tuner model (as many are) then at the moment you are probably restricted to recording one Freeview channel while watching a second, each using one of the two tuners. When you get your new telly you will be able to use both tuners in the recorder to record two different channels at the same time and watch a third using the TV's tuner. One thing to be aware of. If you get a new TV with Freeview HD (which is not necessarily the same thing as a HD TV with Freeview) and the recorder is not Freeview HD then you will be able to watch the four Freeview HD channels but not record them. Which may or may not be an issue for you. |
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OP. here.
Thank you both for your replies. Can I take it then, that I just operate the recorder as on my old telly? |
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As said what TV you have is irrelevant. The recorder does nothing different whether you have a cheap and nasty portable that you bought 30 years ago or the latest all singing all dancing monster with more gadgets than NASA's control centre
![]() About the only difference you may come across is if the recorder has HDMI output and the new TV has HDMI inputs which the old one didn't have. You could get better picture quality by using HDMI rather than SCART but again that will have zero effect on the actual operation of the recorder. |
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OP, when you do get an idTV which will still act as a display for your Freeview recorder, you have the choice whether to watch the TV's own Freeview or use the output of your recorder just as you use it now to view Freeview, as the other posters have said. If your recorder has a twin tuner you have plenty of recording options already. I have a analogue tuner only CRT working with a twin tuner SD PVR and it suits me just fine. |
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do any modern tvs with inbuilt tuners have a recording facility either wit hinbuilt recorder or via a plug in external hard drive?
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do any modern tvs with inbuilt tuners have a recording facility either wit hinbuilt recorder or via a plug in external hard drive?
They do generally however have a major limitation in that most. if not all, such TVs only have a single tuner. Therefore it is not possible to record one channel while watching another. Which could be a bit limiting depending on what you want to use the record function for. If you want full PVR functions then a separate box is still the best option. Especially for recording more than one channel at a time. |
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