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bryanb
bryanb Posts: 5,029 Forumite
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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.
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  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    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.
  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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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 laptop ;)
  • bryanb
    bryanb Posts: 5,029 Forumite
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    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 !
  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    Yes, you will-they all come with that.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    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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  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    bryanb wrote: »
    Thanks, will I need one with a twin tuner to record one channel while watching another?

    If your TV has a built in freeview tuner you don't need a twin tuner pvr but most are.
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