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bryanb
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I'm not sure whether our TV needs a Freeview box or perhaps some form of hard disc recorder to enable rewind and recording of programmes. It's a 32" Alba HD ready, a couple of years old and receives all the free to air channels via a rooftop aerial. Thanks.
This is an open forum, anyone can post and I just did !
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If you want Rewind, Record etc. you're looking at PVR - Personal Video Recording - functionality. Your TV will not include this; you'll need an external PVR.0
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Any Humax Freeview PVR will do the job, the basic choice you need to make is between SD and HD versions.
Your TV already contains a Freeview tuner, what is needed is the hard drive recorder (the PVR's come with twin tuners).No free lunch, and no free laptop0 -
Thanks, will I need one with a twin tuner to record one channel while watching another?This is an open forum, anyone can post and I just did !0
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Yes, you will-they all come with that.No free lunch, and no free laptop0
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Humax isn't the only box to do this.
It may be one of the best but also one of the more expensive.
Freeview + (or Freeview HD+) will allow, pause, rewind, series record."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
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