Recording from a Samsung Smart TV

Jolly_Roger

If my memory serves me correctly, under the analogue system, the aerial went to the box and a scart connected to the TV. Does that seem doable with a smart tv?

windup

if you had a pvr before, what's stopping you from using it now, it plugs in in exactly the same way as before.

if you want a hdmi or hd upgrade, there's an abundance of dual tuner hdmi hd pvr's on the market to choose from that will prove a better experience than trying to use a smart tv's usb hard disk cludges. Very shortly freeview play stb's will enter the market to compete with youview and the like, so prices of older stock may tumble

JJ_Egan

Yes if the TV has Scart connection or box has HDMI output .
I have a recorder connected to smart tv via scart .
I can record 2 separate channels on the recorder plus a 3rd recording on the TV via Hard Drive but i would need an aerial feed to the TV as well as the box .

Jolly_Roger

Hi JJ,

I have just found the Humax and you can have an aerial connection between it and the tv as well as Scart. I don't have the correct M2F aerial connector, but they are dead cheap.

What I can't get my head around is why a brand new Smart TV has no inbuilt recording capability; you have to add a peripheral. I had hoped we could dispense with yet another box, but seemingly not. I suppose these digital tvs don't have inbuilt recording capability because it would increase the price.

grumbler

Jolly_Roger wrote: »

I suppose these digital tvs don't have inbuilt recording capability because it would increase the price.

...and decrease the flexibility.
For one customer 128Gb can suffice, but some may want 5Tb. Not to mention SSDs.

Also, TVs have no moving parts. Unless it's an expensive SSD or flash memory, a hard drive would be the most unreliable part of a TV with recording.

Jolly_Roger

Makes sense!

Thanks to everybody for the input. All much appreciated.

spud17

Jolly_Roger wrote: »

What I can't get my head around is why a brand new Smart TV has no inbuilt recording capability; you have to add a peripheral.

I have no use whatsoever for a recording facility, so current situation suits me fine.
Everyone has different needs.

windup

sticking a 2.5" portable disk drive (or bay) and another tuner in a tv would cost very little extra to manufacture and would make a lot more commercial sense and provide more customer benefit than many of the other gimmicks that they are pushing out into the market atm.

humax did one http://www.trustedreviews.com/Humax-LP32-TDR1-32in-LCD-TV-PVR-review

and provided the innards for a similar jvc

tyllwyd

We have found that since getting a smart tv we don't need to record any more, because there is so much available on catch up - unless you have a specific reason for wanting to record, I wouldn't rush to buy anything, just make sure you've got apps for the main tv channels, and maybe a paid for service like Netflix or Blinkbox, and see if that covers what you need.

roddydogs

Yup, but if you catch up commercial channels, you cant FF thru the ads.!