How to connect DVD Recorder in this set up - help please.

vicwatson

Hi,

I have the following set up at present -

Samsung LED TV
HUMAX Freesat HD Satellite Box
Samsung Blu Ray Player

I have no recording capabilty at present and don't know where to start.

Should I buy a DVD recorder and if so with this can I record off the freesat box and my Saorview channels?

It's weird in the "old" days before blu ray and led I was able to record and watch two seperate channels with VHS video recorder and now I have NO recording capability !!

Help me get up to 2011 !:D

TIA

galvo_clare

Yes

A DVD recorder is the answer. One with a built in hard drive will make it more versatile.
Your Humax would need to have SCART output, as you can't record from a HDMI output.

Hope this helps

mossym

galvo_clare wrote: »

Yes

A DVD recorder is the answer. One with a built in hard drive will make it more versatile.
Your Humax would need to have SCART output, as you can't record from a HDMI output.

Hope this helps

awful advice to be fair. user has a HD satellite box, gets hd channels, and you tell him to buy a scart dvd recorder which won't address his request for saorview channels, will stop him watching his hd channels and will be a costly solution. a dvd recorder is not the answer, they're an old technology and not worth the money
vicwatson, a better approach would be to upgrade your freesat box to a pvr version, humax do these as well, this will be an integrated solution, will allow you to watch and record your hd channels, and give you series links + the other benifits of a true pvr that a dvd recorder can't match. don't waste your money on a dvd recorder

for saorview, given there isn't really one box that will do freesat and saorview with proper recording , your best bet is to add a separate box for now, but you may nt have to, does your tv have a pvr function if you add an external hard drive or memory stick, my samsung does, depends on the model you have, and even if the manual doesn't say it does in many cases it can be enabled. this would allow you to record saorview. what's the model number?

Mike 1972

My LG DVD/HDD recorder does series link.

No MPEG4 (Saorview) tuner though

The notion that hard disc only PVR's are superior to DVD recorders is nonsense.

With my DVD recorder I can permanently archive content or give DVD's to others and if my machine stops working I can play the DVD's on just about any other machine. And I can copy old VHS tapes to DVD or record from multiple sources. None of this is possible with HDD based PVR's

mossym

recordings can easily be copied off a lot of hdd based pvrs. just because a sky box can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done, there is a sub 100 euro box that does both sat and saorview and allows you to copy off recordings, and you can copy them to a dvd or blu-ray of you like.

suggesting dvd recorders are a valid option given the numbers of hd channels available now is nonsense. The market obviously agrees, the numbers buying them are falling rapidly

Mike 1972

mossym wrote: »

suggesting dvd recorders are a valid option given the numbers of hd channels available now is nonsense.

I can record HD channels on my DVD recorder (via Satbox)

mossym

Mike 1972 wrote: »

I can record HD channels on my DVD recorder (via Satbox)

you can record in HD? or you are recording a downscaled output via scart, in which case there is no difference to recording the sd channel

Mike 1972

mossym wrote: »

in which case there is no difference to recording the sd channel

Either way theres no difference as my TV doesnt do HD