Advice on twin tuner television recorder.

[w00dw0rker]

Our area (South West) has been all digital for sometime and I want to update my TVonics digital recorder. My current one can record two channels simultaneously, and I could watch a third channel at the same time as the TV has it's own internal freeview decoder. I like the simplicity of this set-up but I cannot do any editing (to keep small clips of programmes I like, etc.) I have to keep everything in it's entirety or delete a complete programme. I am a technophobe and do not want anything complicated. I do not want to attach anything else to it. I just want a good twin-tuner recorder with built-in freeview (or possibly freesat,)with editing facilities in order to keep clips. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

[AlBags]

There is practically nothing out there which will edit recorded data. Recordings are stored an a PVR HDD as data (some PVR's scrambled) .. not video files. So I do not think any manufacturer wishes to write the software to do it.
I can extract/edit even HD recordings OFF the machine by piggy-back connection by SATA, but it's tricky.
The best PVR's around for useability and future-proofing .. firmware updates, and the like are Humax. They do both FS and FV PVR's.

Also .... 'complicated' and 'technophobe' very rarely go hand-in-hand!

[The Builder]

Before I threw out the TV and started to use a twin-tuner PC for telly watching, I used a Humax twin. As Al says, they are good. I often used a cheap USB capture device (editing software included) to extract a recorded TV programme onto a PC.
It worked very well, but more fiddly than recording direct to the PC as I do now.

[w00dw0rker]

Thanks for your replies. Before our area went all digital, I used a Panasonic DMH-EH50 DVD Recorder which, of course, did have the sort of editing facilities that I wanted and wish I had now. I think this could have been connected to be used in addition to my current twin tuner recorder but, unfortunately it went wrong. Thanks again. If anyone else cares to make any suggestions, please do.