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Recording from a built-in tuner?

  • 29-12-2010 9:43pm
    #1
    RMDrive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭


    Aided by the great threads on here, I'm closing in on a new TV with a built in tuner for Irish DTT and Freeview. But will I be able to record using that setup?

    I currently have a Sony hard drive recorder. Will there be a loop that I can set up to send the signal through the recorder?

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,138 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    RMDrive wrote: »
    Aided by the great threads on here, I'm closing in on a new TV with a built in tuner for Irish DTT and Freeview. But will I be able to record using that setup?

    I currently have a Sony hard drive recorder. Will there be a loop that I can set up to send the signal through the recorder?

    Cheers.

    Not likely. You can use the Sony recorder to record from the TV through the SCART but you can only record what you are watching, or you could get a Saorview STB and connect that and use that as a tuner.

    I assume the Sony is either not digital or is MPEG2. Sorry.


  • #3
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Better to get a proper dual tuner PVR. The Sony PVR you have is likely obsolete (Analogue only, or Analogue + MPEG2). You'll get better quality as Built in MPEG4 Tuner HD PVR makes a copy of live signal.


  • #4
    RMDrive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭RMDrive


    Thanks for the replies. I should have been clearer about the Sony. It's just a recorder and DVD player. It's not a receiver and I currently have it linked between a technomate receiver and my TV.

    Are the dual-tuner PVR's expensive? It's a shame cause I had my heart set on a nice new TV in Currys.


  • #5
    STB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭STB


    You dont need a dual pvr. You can just use a PVR like a TECHNISAT HDFV T2 FREEVIEW HD RECEIVER USB PVR READY. About €140. Add a HDD. You could use that for recording whilst watching on the TV.

    I presume you are in an area of overspill from UK ? ie Wexford/NI Border.


  • #6
    Antenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭Antenna


    Sam Russell wrote: »
    Not likely. You can use the Sony recorder to record from the TV through the SCART but you can only record what you are watching,

    I remember trying this on a Philips MPEG4 TV (to allow an external recorder record DTT if it were possible).
    However there is no such output on SCART possible with DTT reception.
    It is only possible with analogue reception (SCART output for analogue selected in menu).

    This is not unexpected as extra hardware would be required in the TV to generate an analogue output from DTT, I doubt it would be possible with the OP's TV either.


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  • #7
    RMDrive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭RMDrive


    Sorry, brain fried last night. I have freesat at the moment, not freeview (based in Mayo).

    Thanks for the help. Got to figure out how important being able to record is to me.


  • #8
    STB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭STB


    RMDrive wrote: »
    Sorry, brain fried last night. I have freesat at the moment, not freeview (based in Mayo).

    Thanks for the help. Got to figure out how important being able to record is to me.

    Well then what I posted at post#5 above is no use to you. You can get a TV that does DTT/HD Freesat. The Sony V5810 (powercity).

    You would then need a simple HD combo receiver to record what you want €169 of sat DTT)


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