TV with usb

loulou41

TV with usb connection, can you record straight from tv to usb without a hard drive? The old vhs you could put a tape and then record from tv. I wonder whether you could do the same with a build in freeview tuner? Thanks

Trinitrotoluene

Define USB - USB is a cable protocol. Do you mean a USB Pen drive?

SnowTiger

loulou41 wrote: »

TV with usb connection, can you record straight from tv to usb without a hard drive? The old vhs you could put a tape and then record from tv. I wonder whether you could do the same with a build in freeview tuner? Thanks

Video recorders had their own tuner, so you weren't recording from the TV.

Most TVs I've seen with a USB port don't allow you to record.

However, my Samsung Smart TV does; but it records to USB using a non-standard format which means recordings can only be played back on the TV. It also connects to the Internet and offers access to BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, Netflix, etc.

Enterprise_1701C

On our Samsung you can record from tue USB, but only the station the Freeview on the TV is set on.

Lincoln_Imp

You can with some LG`s but it needs to be bigger than 40gig so a portable hard drive is needed

50Twuncle

loulou41 wrote: »

TV with usb connection, can you record straight from tv to usb without a hard drive? The old vhs you could put a tape and then record from tv. I wonder whether you could do the same with a build in freeview tuner? Thanks

Yes - many TV's can - both our Panasonic Viera and (cheap) 24" Logik can and do..

almillar

General rule does not exist. You need to check each SPECIFIC model number.
It's not a good solution though because, as suggested above, it'll use up the only tuner the TV contains, meaning you're stuck watching what's being recorded. Much better to get a PVR (personal video recorder) instead.