Hi,
On the boarders of Crystal Palace transmitters and Sudbury.  Difital is 
flaky at best even with a good Sony STB and new professionally spec and 
fitted aerial etc.etc.
So resigned to Analogue for the next 4 years.  Unless Freesat includes 
Channel 5

So VCR/DVD player on last legs but want the advantages of PVR HDD 
instead of masses of tapes and the inevitable accidental over recording 
or searching for recording as there is no index etc.   The HDD should 
overcome this if it big enough ?

Quite prepared to use the HDD unit for  just a few years and then 
upgrade  i.e disposable.   Would any cheap PVR do?

Your recommendations received with thanks.  Will buy separate DVD player
RDD

In message , rdd  
wrote
>Hi,
>On the boarders of Crystal Palace transmitters and Sudbury. Difital is 
>flaky at best even with a good Sony STB and new professionally spec and 
>fitted aerial etc.etc.
>So resigned to Analogue for the next 4 years.  Unless Freesat includes 
>Channel 5
>
>So VCR/DVD player on last legs but want the advantages of PVR HDD 
>instead of masses of tapes and the inevitable accidental over recording 
>or searching for recording as there is no index etc.   The HDD should 
>overcome this if it big enough ?
>
>Quite prepared to use the HDD unit for  just a few years and then 
>upgrade  i.e disposable.   Would any cheap PVR do?
>
>Your recommendations received with thanks.  Will buy separate DVD player
>RDD


Most HDD PVRs only record digital information from their own internal 
digital tuners - the option for recording from an external source is not 
offered.
-- 
Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

Alan wrote:
> In message , rdd  wrote
>> Hi,
>> On the boarders of Crystal Palace transmitters and Sudbury. Difital is 
>> flaky at best even with a good Sony STB and new professionally spec 
>> and fitted aerial etc.etc.
>> So resigned to Analogue for the next 4 years.  Unless Freesat includes 
>> Channel 5
>>
>> So VCR/DVD player on last legs but want the advantages of PVR HDD 
>> instead of masses of tapes and the inevitable accidental over 
>> recording or searching for recording as there is no index etc.   The 
>> HDD should overcome this if it big enough ?
>>
>> Quite prepared to use the HDD unit for  just a few years and then 
>> upgrade  i.e disposable.   Would any cheap PVR do?
>>
>> Your recommendations received with thanks.  Will buy separate DVD player
>> RDD
> 
> 
> Most HDD PVRs only record digital information from their own internal 
> digital tuners - the option for recording from an external source is not 
> offered.

Thanks.
How about going down the DVD-/+ R & HDD route? Are there any twin 
analogue tuner versions still around?.  Or what models should i look for 
on ebay?
TIA :)
RDD

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>> Most HDD PVRs only record digital information from their own internal 
>> digital tuners - the option for recording from an external source is not 
>> offered.
>
> Thanks.
> How about going down the DVD-/+ R & HDD route? Are there any twin analogue 
> tuner versions still around?.  Or what models should i look for on ebay?




dvd recorders will be single tuner only.



-- 
Gareth.

That fly... is your magic wand.
http://www.last.fm/user/dsbmusic/

rdd wrote:
> Hi,
> On the boarders of Crystal Palace transmitters and Sudbury.  Difital is 
> flaky at best even with a good Sony STB and new professionally spec and 
> fitted aerial etc.etc.
> So resigned to Analogue for the next 4 years.  Unless Freesat includes 
> Channel 5
> 

Sounds like an application for a Tivo...

Peter Watson wrote:
> rdd wrote:
>> Hi,
>> On the boarders of Crystal Palace transmitters and Sudbury.  Difital 
>> is flaky at best even with a good Sony STB and new professionally spec 
>> and fitted aerial etc.etc.
>> So resigned to Analogue for the next 4 years.  Unless Freesat includes 
>> Channel 5
>>
> 
> Sounds like an application for a Tivo...

Thanks for the responses.
Last questions, promise :)
A) Some of the DVD recorder HDD have twin tuners - one analogue and one 
digital.
Is it possible to record from each tuner simultaneously - i.e one 
analogue program and a different Digital program
B) Do these combos time shift even  using the analogue tuner?
Thanks again
  RDD