How to find engineer to configure all my tv/dvd etc kit

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usignuolo wrote: »

UPDATE : My friend Jay, who has the earlier model of my Panasonic box, and Freeview, came round to give me a hand. We managed tocopy from VHS to DVD and DVD to its HDD on the Panasonic.

Wouldn't it be more efficient to copy VHS to HDD, then copy to DVD?

We then tried to record timed tv shows onto the Panasonic using the Programme Guide (Guide +) supplied with the Panasonic box - eg we tried to set it up to record Sherlock tonight. This wouldn't work (Guide + could not find any tv channels with the EPG). After some poking around in the manual, we found that Guide + (for timed tv recording on the Panasonic) ONLY works with an aerial input. As I have cable input it does not work. So the only option is to use the V+ box to record to onto the V+ HDD and then play that back and record onto the Panasonic HDD or DVD at the same time.

That's not your only option. As I described in your other thread, you can perform manual timer recording (p32 of the manual) - if you're at the machine when the programme starts, you can simply press Record.

Your situation is essentially the same as that described in p30 of the manual - Recording from a Digital Satellite receiver - except you have a Digital Cable Receiver instead.

Shame the Guide + firmware tv recording option won't work except with an aerial. Looks like the same problem would occur if I tried to use it Freeview supplied with the Panasonic box. ie I would have to convert to an aerial, which I am reluctant to do as the signal is not so good round here because we are below a hill.

It's a Freeview recorder, designed to work primarily with a Freeview signal - if you don't have a good Freeview signal, it's no fault of the machine......