Originally Posted by incy wincy:
“I'm planning to buy a new TV, a flatscreen with a Freeview tuner in, to replace the ageing CRT in the bedroom. We use a Humax set top box at the moment which has a recording function and would like to continue using this. Will it be possible to keep viewing Freeview through this with the new TV or will we have to use the tuner in the TV?
If specific models are an issue, I'm looking at something like the LG PA4500.”
You can use either the PVR or the TV. Entirely your choice.
One thing you will be able to do with a new TV with "Freeview" tuner is record two programmes and watch a third all at the same time. ie record two programmes on the Humax and watch the third on the telly using it's tuner.
The only reason you have to use the Humax at the moment is probably because it is the only device you have capable of receiving digital TV. So you don't have the option.
But I presume you may have had a VCR back in the "old days"? If so, did you stop and think about what device you were watching telly on? Probably not. You used the telly for watching and the VCR for recording. But you could have used the VCR for watching as well as recording had you so wished. However unlike the Humax it would only have had one tuner so you could not have watched BBC1 while recording ITV for example solely on a VCR so would be forced to use the TV. The Humax however does have two tuners so you can use one to record from and the other to watch something else at the same time.
But with the digital TV as well you can now record BBC1 and ITV and watch Channel 4 all at the same time if you so wanted.