Recording Freeview

Steve_Boorman

Hello
Can anyone help this dimbo work out how to record programmes from freeview on my vcr ? I have followed the installation and get a good pic but how do i tune the video in to record Freeview? Cheers
Steve

MarkyMarkD

In order to video from your Freeview box, you need either:

(1) the Freeview box to have 2 SCART outputs, and to connect 1 to the TV (in the normal way) and the other to the video, which then records off input AV1 or similar, rather than a standard channel number; or
(2) if the Freeview box has only 1 SCART output, use a SCART splitter to split the output between the TV and the video.

SCART splitters are not very expensive, but you really should have bought a Freeview box with 2 SCART outputs if you haven't already bought one with 1 SCART output.

Hardly any Freeview boxes generate an RF output signal, so it is normally not possible to "tune" the video in to record Freeview.

Joe_Bloggs

This two scart option is another very useful fact not mentioned in a £300 million quid campain. I'd rather use a topfield or humax dual channel digital terrestrial hard disk jobby than a video recorder.
You will have to put the settop box on stanby to have a VCR or DVD play back recorded material throught the scart of the set top box into a TV. If it is on a scart then use AV1,AV2 etc channels for the tv to see it. Read your manuals.
J_B.

Gers

Or you can buy the Daewoo Freeview VCR machine. The Radio Times advertise them regularly and the price has plummeted recently. I got my mother one as it also records subtitles and, even though I've now bought her the Sony RDR-HXD710 which is a whole different ball game, she still has it connected to the TV and acts as a second receiver when the Sony is recording.


http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/dvd-players/sony-rdrhxd710.asp

http://www.currys.co.uk/product.php?sku=569192 (Daewoo)