Hi

Sorry if this is basic question but I currently have a 28" Analog Sony widescreen and am going to get get an HXH710.

I understand that if I wire the aerial through the 710, the Freeview tuner will allow me to watch Freeview channels. However, I believe this won't allow me to record one Freeview channel whilst watching another. So:

1) Do I need an dedicated Freeview box to do this?

2) If so, how do I wire it in with the DVD and the TV? Do I need some sort of aerial splitter or does it have twin outputs with one going directly to the TV whilst the second goes to the DVD?

PS; I saw another post which describes how to watch analaog whilst recoding DVD freeview but since analog is on it's way out, I might as well get the pain out of the way, now

Thanx

With this equipment, yes


Depends upon what connections your TV has and whether you have any other equipment e.g. VCR, DVD player etc.

You might also look at a twin tuner PVR e.g. Fusion/Panasonic/Humax/Topfield/Inverto. With one of these you can record one digital channel and watch and/or record another digital channel too. You could pare this with a DVD player for bought/hired DVD's or a cheaper DVD recorder for archiving purposes.

Thanks for the reply. The TV has two SCART inputs on the back and an S-Video on the front. Do I need to put a Freeview on each SCART (if so, what do I do with the single aerial feed) or can I daisychain it somehow?

BTW, sorry to sound dumb but why would I want to have a VCR in the set-up? After all, that was why I was going to get a DVD recorder....have I missed something?

I've just got my HXD710. I kept my old freeview box.
I've connected each of them in a scart inputs on the back of my TV (which has 3 !). I have also a single aerial feed which daisychained: aerial -> STB -> HXD710 -> TV.

And it works very well.

Thanks for the reply; am I understanding this correctly:

1) The Aerial Feed to STB and the STB Scart to TV together allow you to watch Freeview channel A

2) At the same time, the STB Aerial Feed to the HXD710 internal Freeview tuner allows the 710 to record Freeview channel B whilst you are happily watching Freeview channel A

3) The HXD710 Scart to TV allows you to watch playback of DVDs from the 710 or watch whatever channel the 710 is currently tuned in to.

Lastly, if the above is correct, what does the the final aerial feed from the HXD710 to the TV give you? Logically, I'd guess analogue channels but, at this stage, I'm not sure logic has anything to do with it

1) correct
2) correct. And it allows HXD710 recording Freeview when you watch Freeview in channel A
3) correct

last: correct as well. The picture of the analogue is brighter and nicer. So when the programme is in 4:3, I sometimes watch it from analogue tuner...

Guys

Many thanks for your patience in helping me out with these answers. At last, I'm starting to understand how it all goes together! It makes developing high-throughput WAN topologies seem simple, by comparison

Yep, fantasio is spot on

You may want your VCR connected to: convert videos to disc and/or watch existing videos you own