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Recording Tv Programmes
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Hi, I have a question please
At the moment we have a tv with just the freeview channels, and a normal hard drive recorder plugged in to the tv to record programmes.
If we were to buy a double tuner freeview DTR (digital tv recorder which can record 2 programmes at the same time and has pause and rewind live tv) and plug that in to the tv also, will we be able to record tv channels on both machines at the same time please? .. ie - at 8pm tomorrow record a programme on the normal recorder whilst also recording 2 programmes on the DTR, all at the same time at 8pm tomorrow...?
In my head, I don't think it will be possible somehow, but I'm hoping I am wrong, lol.
I hope this all makes sense! lol
Thank you :) x
At the moment we have a tv with just the freeview channels, and a normal hard drive recorder plugged in to the tv to record programmes.
If we were to buy a double tuner freeview DTR (digital tv recorder which can record 2 programmes at the same time and has pause and rewind live tv) and plug that in to the tv also, will we be able to record tv channels on both machines at the same time please? .. ie - at 8pm tomorrow record a programme on the normal recorder whilst also recording 2 programmes on the DTR, all at the same time at 8pm tomorrow...?
In my head, I don't think it will be possible somehow, but I'm hoping I am wrong, lol.
I hope this all makes sense! lol
Thank you :) x
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Bit of a guess as never plugged hard drives into a tv but: freeview boxes tend to be first in the chain before the signal passes to the tv so the double tuner should allow you to record one channel and pass a second to the tv. I'm unsure how your present system works but if it runs from the analogue aerial input and you swop it to the freeview box digital input I suspect it may no longer be able to record something you are not watching, and so no longer add value. You may be able to sort out two analogue inputs but you'd need to experiment and may be better off adding the freeview to a different tv.