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What PVR features do I need?

  • 26-12-2007 9:14pm
    #1
    calum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 243 ✭✭


    Looking to finally dip my toe into the world of PVRs, but am a little befuddled as to what's available/useful/required, particularly for non-digital usage.

    My current setup: NTL analogue cable, which goes straight to my VCR. The VCR and my DVD player both have outputs to both my telly and my video sender box, allowing me to watch tv/video/dvd either on said telly, or on the tellies I have elsewhere in the house.

    This is actually a pretty flexible setup, except that if I'm recording something, I can't watch TV in another room using the video sender (since it's really the VCR's signal that's going to the other room). So, my first assumption is that I'd need twin tuners in the PVR to get around this, and that the ones that advertise "simultaneous playback and record" aren't sufficient? (How do twin tuners work anyway-- is there still one physical input that's split internally, or do I need to split the input myself before it reaches the PVR?)

    Next up is EPGs-- what are the options if I don't have Sky+? I've heard a little about Guide Plus, is that available over NTL Analogue? I also have subscriptions to both tvtv.co.uk and DigiGuide, are there any PVRs that can hook up to those (preferably over a network connection-- I don't really want to hook up my laptop to my PVR just to program it)?

    Finally, a PVR with a built-in DVD player/burner would be preferable, although at a push I'd take one that could squirt recordings down a wire to my MacBook for archiving.

    Is there anything around that will meet my oh-so-modest needs? :)


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