Recording TV without subscription services

Inner_Zone

Peter999 wrote: »

I'm afraid you wont be able to record at all from the TV.

The TV will not output to the VCR/DVD so you won't even be able to record the channel you're watching. You'd have to buy a freeview box to feed into the VCR to record TV.

Fraid you are wrong, most Freeview TV's will output through one Scart socket a composite video and audio sign of the TV channel being viewed, provided the TV is on. As most VCR's can only handle composite video that is the best quality the recording will be.

Leodogger

googler wrote: »

What model of Pana VHS/DVD is it?

I have a Panasonic DMR -ES30V VHS/DVD Recorder.

Inner_Zone

securityguy wrote: »

It would be a rare VCR that also did Freeview, but I guess they exist.

SetPal did one was sold under the Daewoo and Bush brand names, now obsolete due to split NIT issue.

Torry_Quine

JWhite wrote: »

You will have to excuse my techno ignorance, do PVR's typically have a Freeview receiver? I don't even know what these pieces of equipment consist of to be honest. I thought if the TV had Freeview channels incorporated, all the PVR did was record them like other TV channels. I just thought a PVR acted the same as a VCR, just recording programmes from the TV whether Freeview or Freesat or anything ?;)

A VCR didn't record from the TV though but had its own reciever , the PVR usually has two so can record two programmes at the same time.

googler

JWhite wrote: »

I have a Panasonic DMR -ES30V VHS/DVD Recorder.

The US version of the user manual shows it to have aerial input and output, but I see no indication whether it's analogue tuner or digital - do you still have your manual?

securityguy

JWhite wrote: »

I just thought a PVR acted the same as a VCR, just recording programmes from the TV whether Freeview or Freesat or anything ?;)

But VCRs don't, by and large, record from the TV. The whole point is that you can watch a programme and record something else, or leave your video to record while the TV is off. As with a PVR.

Leodogger

googler wrote: »

The US version of the user manual shows it to have aerial input and output, but I see no indication whether it's analogue tuner or digital - do you still have your manual?

Yes I do and it is LCD Digital and HD Bravia HDMI.:)

st999

My sister still has a CRT TV and video tape recorder with a couple of cheap digiboxes.

She can watch one channel and record another.

Although some of her video tapes are a bit snowy now.

googler

JWhite wrote: »

Yes I do and it is LCD Digital and HD Bravia HDMI.:)

That's the TV. I was asking about the VCR/DVD...

Buzby

TiVo IS a PVR. The only difference in models is in the HD size. If you plan to dump VM and go Freeview (or FreeSat) then an integrated STB is the only way forward.