Recording from digital tv to vid recorder

weatherwax_2

We recently got a tv with built in digital facility. It's useful if we wish to watch free-to-view channels (and for if we decide to subscribe to cable/Sky at a later date), but we can't seem to work out how to record from the free channels.

Can anyone advise in the most basic terms?

Joe_Bloggs

Have you tried using a scart lead to connect to your TV to the VCR ? Let us know the make and model numbers of the TV and VCR and I will try and find PDF versions of the manuals.
J_B.

Hintza

Yes

It took me months to figure this out. However mine was a freeview box so might (probably) different.

But i had to set the video to AV and not the channel. And the freeview box to the channel I wished to record.

However I can not watch digital TV (diferent channel) and must switch to Analogue whilst recording Digital. You might not have this option??

weatherwax_2

Thanks for the replies. The TV is a Panasonic TX-32DT2, and the video is a Panasonic NV-HV61EB/EBL. Any advice has to be of the Janet and John type. ;D

Joe_Bloggs

A scart from the AV2 connector of the TV to the video is the way to go. This TV weighs 60Kg, has a modem, a PC serial interface and something called qlink, which is supposed to help connecting things together.
The PDF manual is here.
J_B .

Poppy9

We have a box too and cant get our video to work. How do you set your video to AV channel. Currently we have a scart from box to video. Scart from video to tv. Scart from DVD to TV

raeble

Your video remote should have an av button, press that and the video will be on the av channel. Then press record, anything playing on the av channel should be recorded. If nothing is playing then you should record a black screen. Hope this helps.

I've got a sky box, with a scart from tv to box. Then a scart from box to video, then the external aerial goes into the box and the aerial connector thingie goes into the box to video and video aerial thingie goes from video to the tv. I don't bother having a seperate scart for the dvd, I just pull the one out of the sky box, might be a problem if I ever want to record off sky while watching a dvd though. :P

culpepper

You should have AV/TV button on your vid remote and Possibly one on your box remote, if you are recording from your box,you can watch what it is recording or press the none AV one on the TV remote to watch the terrestrial channels while it records the box channel(ours can anyway,we have a freeview box) the AV channel on our TV remote is channel 0 and the others are just the ordinary channels. So long as the video is taping the AV channel from the freeview box,it doesnt matter if you are not watching the freeview channel on your TV.

sra

If you can't find the av button...

I have an old universal remote that controls all my video functions except the av key.

Luckily its easily solved by pressing the "1" key then the "pr-" (the key that cycles through all available channels in reverse order)

weatherwax_2

A scart  from the AV2 connector of the TV to the video is the way to go. This TV weighs 60Kg, has a modem, a PC serial  interface and something called qlink, which is supposed to help connecting things together.  
The PDF manual is here.  
J_B .          

I have the instruction booklet for the TV which mentions QLink but I can't make any sense of it. We have the scart connection in place but still can't record from digital. ???