recording digital tv

[williams11]

i've got a tv with inbuilt freeview but cannot record freeview on my dvd recorder, so have bought a seperate digibox, how do i connect it all up so that i can record freeview at the moment i can only record analogue i have 3 scart leads and numourous aerial cables and an aerial splitter.

[Loosehead]

You have addressed the wrong problem, a digibox is just duplicating what you already have. if you can view a freeview channel on your tv with only the built in digibox then you can record it. The problem lies in the setting up of the recording apparatus be it DVD or Video. Read the manual for you DVD recorder carefully, especially the bit about setting up the channels for recording purposes/tuniing etc. TV's with in Built digiboxes tend to allocate the channels 1 per TV channel so it should be a lot better than the digibox solution. 

[LeMarchand]

Try this setup:

Aerial wall socket to splitter, one lead goes to TV and the other to the Digibox (assumes the signal is good enough to split), or (if possible) go Wall/DB/TV or (best of all) Wall/DB/DVDR/TV.

Connect the Digibox to the DVDR and the DVDR to the TV via SCART.

You should be able to tune the DVDR to the analogue channels and use the SCART connection (normally called AV1 or Aux) to tape whatever the Digibox is viewing. The equivalent channel on your TV will be whatever the DVDR is playing or tuned to. You think you should also be able to use the inbuilt box on your TV to watch a different digital channel.