dvd recorder problem please help

stationairy

hi i bought grandad one of those £99 recoder from dixons the matuisa one
now have set it up he has an arial on roof and that only arial point
now have followed all instruction and everything is set up ok and can record but problem is when recording he can only watch program he is watching he cant watch another channel do you no why this is

alison74

HI,

I just bought the same DVD recorder recently and the only thing I can think of is that he has it on his AV channel on his tv and when he presses record you then can't move the channels up and down and will only be able to watch / record the same one.

If he presses the channel button on the tv, it should work as the tv normally would whilst the DVD is recording in the background on the AV channel (or what ever channel you have programmed it into)

You can, without recording, move the channels up and down on the DVD remote, but as soon as you press record, you have to use the tv remote to watch the other channels

Hope this helps

stationairy

alison74 wrote:

HI,

I just bought the same DVD recorder recently and the only thing I can think of is that he has it on his AV channel on his tv and when he presses record you then can't move the channels up and down and will only be able to watch / record the same one.

If he presses the channel button on the tv, it should work as the tv normally would whilst the DVD is recording in the background on the AV channel (or what ever channel you have programmed it into)

You can, without recording, move the channels up and down on the DVD remote, but as soon as you press record, you have to use the tv remote to watch the other channels

Hope this helps

hi thanks for reply sorry it took so long to get back to you

i have tried sugesstion but every time try to record just cant watch any other channels
thought it might be tv but have tried with different tv and still same probs
does anyone have any other suggestion please help am desperate

Liquid_Stool

just a thought, i suspect like the £99 Alba VD recorder from Argos that this only has one scart connection and hence is only a single tuner - to watch a different channel from the one you are recording you'll need a twin tuner!

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joshm_2

Liquid_Stool wrote:

you'll need a twin tuner!

in fact forget it and buy this

Doesn't this unit also have only a single, analogue, tuner?


I think it's likely that the cause of stationairy's problem is a dodgy bit of plumbing with the cables at the back, or, more likely and as Alison suggests, a bit of finger trouble.

How is the aerial connected from the DVD recorder to the TV? Is it only via SCART or have you used the loop-through on the back of the DVD recorder to feed the co-ax cable (that's the normal TV aerial wire) out of the back of the DVD recorder and into the socket on the back of the TV? If this co-ax is in place then your TV is definitely capable of viewing other channels (provided this was possible before you bought the DVD recorder).

If the TV and DVD recorder are connected via SCART, it is possible that the TV is taking command signals from the DVD recorder and automatically switching to AV as Alison suggests.

Hope that helps, JoshM