Reply to: TV with built in Freeview - How to record ?

[Bob Dalek]

Or just get an all in one...

That's sooo cheap! Cheers!

[cojak]

Or just get an all in one...

[BoredBloke]

Yes. I am a miser and didn't want to chuck the video machine in the bin. Stupid of me, as that's its short-term destiny, anyway!

My wife bought me a VCR about 8 years ago. It cost a bit in terms of VCR's as it could play US tapes - I used to do a bit of work out there. It never once got used because I got a DVD player shortly after. We never even set the clock on it either so it had no use whatsoever! All it did was sit under our telly and consume power until I binned it.

[BoredBloke]

As with 43% of my posts, I have no idea what I'm talking about, so possibly right or wrong.

Good answer!

[Bob Dalek]

I thought about recording onto VHS from Sky too the other day, but then I remembered that it's not 1983 anymore.

Yes. I am a miser and didn't want to chuck the video machine in the bin. Stupid of me, as that's its short-term destiny, anyway!

[VectraMan]

On a similar note: Sky. Love it to bits, but was dismayed to find that I can't record onto VHS any channel other than the one that's showing.

I thought about recording onto VHS from Sky too the other day, but then I remembered that it's not 1983 anymore.

[Platypus]

4th option - just download it all off t'internet anyway, and play it on your TV.

Yes I know some people who are doing this more and more, especially as the stuff on telly gets worse and worse

[QwertyBerty]

And even if (as someone suggested) the signal is sent out of the telly via scart, the telly would have to be switched on and the correct channel selected for the PVR to be able to record it.

Not sure how modern your telly is but on mine I set the scheduler and leave the telly on standby. At the appointed time the freeview box comes on, but not the telly.

QB.

[pmeswani]

4th option - just download it all off t'internet anyway, and play it on your TV.

Legally of course.

[Bob Dalek]

On a similar note: Sky. Love it to bits, but was dismayed to find that I can't record onto VHS any channel other than the one that's showing.

Mayday! Mayday!

And, No, I do not have Sky+.

[TheFaQQer]

4th option - just download it all off t'internet anyway, and play it on your TV.

[pmeswani]

For a TV with built-in Freeview decoder, how does one record programmes on an external DVR?

It depends on the DVR you have. The DVR I have doesn't pick up the Freeview channels on my TV. 2 options exist.

1. Get an external Freeview box and daisy chain.

2. Get a DVR that has built in Freeview.

If you really want a 3rd option.... get Sky and daisy chain or Sky+.

[Platypus]

OK, as I suspected, info on this is sketchy. My view is the same as Tony's

The decoder will be built into the TV - there won't be any way of getting the signal from the decoder into the PVR would there? I'm happy to be proved wrong though as I'm only guessing.

Like Tony, I don't know.

And even if (as someone suggested) the signal is sent out of the telly via scart, the telly would have to be switched on and the correct channel selected for the PVR to be able to record it.

At present my PVR controls my Sky box by sending the IR channel-change signals to it. But I'm going to ditch Sky and wondered if anyone else had gone down this route. I think the answer will be to keep my Sky box for the free channels only.

EDIT: I like the Panasonic solution but that won't be an option for me

[QwertyBerty]

Probably using a scart lead. I have a Panasonic plasma with built-in freeview and a Panasonic DVD recorder so I only need to set the programme scheduler on the telly and it will turn on and off the recorder itself. I think it uses a technology called Q-Link to do this but Sony et al have their own technologies and some may work with each other.

QB.

[TheFaQQer]

Is that right?

As with 43% of my posts, I have no idea what I'm talking about, so possibly right or wrong.