DVD recorder

[Deleted User]

Is it even possible to record from TV now anyway?

Neil_Jones

Deleted_User said:

Is it even possible to record from TV now anyway?

Of course it is, it always has been.

sweetgirl2015

dipsomaniac said:

Thought everyone was streaming or downloading these days?  Binned my Blu-ray at least 10 years ago

No not everyone, my parents dont even have the internet. Plus last Christmas we had an internet outage which lasted fron Christmas eve until Jan 2nd. We were so grateful for our dvd and bluray players as normal television was rubbish. 
This is the problem when we become too dependent with online stuff. When it's not working we are screwed. 

Neil_Jones

sweetgirl2015 said:

This is the problem when we become too dependent with online stuff. When it's not working we are screwed. 

Don't be so melodramatic.  There are always ways to do things that don't involve online access.  How do you think anything got done before 1989?

dipsomaniac

J_B said:

dipsomaniac said:

Thought everyone was streaming or downloading these days?  Binned my Blu-ray at least 10 years ago

Well, you think wrong!

Not everyone has super fast fibre broadband!

(and we've never owned a BluRay to bin one )

According to ofcom 95% of UK homes have access to fast (>30mbps) broadband

J_B

dipsomaniac said:

J_B said:

dipsomaniac said:

Thought everyone was streaming or downloading these days?  Binned my Blu-ray at least 10 years ago

Well, you think wrong!

Not everyone has super fast fibre broadband!

(and we've never owned a BluRay to bin one )

According to ofcom 95% of UK homes have access to fast (>30mbps) broadband

Having access to, isn't the same as actually having it!  

[Deleted User]

Neil_Jones said:

Deleted_User said:

Is it even possible to record from TV now anyway?

Of course it is, it always has been.

So you have a DVD recorder that has a freeview/Freesat tuner?

Neil_Jones

Deleted_User said:

Neil_Jones said:

Deleted_User said:

Is it even possible to record from TV now anyway?

Of course it is, it always has been.

So you have a DVD recorder that has a freeview/Freesat tuner?

Not at this time but I did have a HDD recorder that could record onto an internal hard drive and copy to DVD later (or direct to DVD if you want), which I bought long before Freeview came along so it only had a RF tuner, but it had Scart in which I could connect a Freeview box to so I could have done it in a round about the houses sort of way.

The modern trend of recording TV is onto hard drive, basically the Sky+ model, as while DVDs (blank and commercial) are cheap to make (pennies in fact), they're not particularly environmental friendly at the other end of their life.

jsmith9

A DVD recorder will record onto DVD whatever video / audio signal is fed into the back. 

You can connect your TV using the RGB composite signal (ie the three phono plugs), or SCART or S-video connection. Which you use depends on the quality you want and obviously what sockets your TV and the recorder have.

HDMI would not be supported as that has copy protection.