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I need a recorder for my satellite signal

  • 01-01-2012 12:24AM
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭


    Sounds simple doesn't it? My VCR has finally expired. I have an non sub SKY box and want a HDD of some sort to record. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, indeed cheaper the better. Can anyone suggest what models/makes I should be looking for.


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  • #2
    Ronnie Raygun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,351 ✭✭✭Ronnie Raygun


    Does this box only output analogue via scart? How are you going to record that to a HDD?


  • #3
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Just checked, yep its SCARTs only. Another VCR it is then.

    Or would a DVD recorder be worth picking up? Are they any good?


  • #4
    Gipo3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Gipo3


    What the hell is a vcr?


  • #5
    Ronnie Raygun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,351 ✭✭✭Ronnie Raygun


    mike65 wrote: »
    Just checked, yep its SCARTs only. Another VCR it is then.

    Or would a DVD recorder be worth picking up? Are they any good?

    Just get a receiver with a built-in HDD (or at least one with USB to add an external drive).


  • #6
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,996 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Either this:

    http://www.adverts.ie/satellite/sky-box-that-records-without-subscription/1126977

    or a Humax Foxsat

    http://www.richersounds.com/product/freeview-freesat-pvr/humax/foxsat-hdr500/huma-foxsat-hdr-500g

    You will get a deal on one of these here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1105


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  • #7
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,451 ✭✭✭✭watty


    It's before the era of the Moon Base, Flying cars, Star Ships etc we have. It used a plastic tape covered in rust, and an alloy drum spinning about 1,500 rpm synchronised to the video frame, magnetising the rust using an analogue FM carrier in the Short wave band. The colour part of signal was recorded at very low quality using a separate Medium Wave band carrier (colour under) thus used to be very blurry and not quite match the position of the B&W part of picture.

    It's amazing they ever worked. Much more difficult to make than a modern recorder. Our Grandparents were very clever in a Heath Robinson/Wallace&Grommet fashion.


  • #8
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,996 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Mike is in for a shock when he finds out what he has been missing :D


  • #9
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Gipo3 wrote: »
    What the hell is a vcr?

    Video
    Cassette
    Recorder

    They used to be all the rage.

    My budget is pretty much zero (well 50/70 euro) so a new integrated receiver/recorder is out of the question.


  • #10
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,996 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Buy another VCR or see if you can haggle with the guy on the adverts link.


  • #11
    Gipo3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Gipo3


    mike65 wrote: »
    Video
    Cassette
    Recorder

    They used to be all the rage.

    Oh yeah, I remember them.:pac::pac:


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  • #12
    kbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭kbell


    mike65 wrote: »
    My budget is pretty much zero (well 50/70 euro) so a new integrated receiver/recorder is out of the question.


    Try one of those Cash converter type places, i've seen VCR's in there for about €20.


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