Re: PVRs with Hybrid Tuners?

MikeS wrote:
"Jomtien" <jomtien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:qv2ks190ugdvicio5gb5gtj1ge3tc4ahdk@xxxxxxxxxx

"MikeS" <mikesansom@hotmail .com> wrote:


When you connect a VCR to a Humex you connect to a scart socket tuned to
channel 36.

Scarts cannot be tuned.


Correct but TV's can tune to channel 36. which is the channel the scart is tuned to in the factory. See the Hamex Manual on their site please and see if you have the same interpetation MikeS


Sorry Mike, Think you need to understand the difference between inputs and outputs here, and more importantly the lack of an mpeg encoder in these freeview products. A UHF modulator provides the ability for the DVR to broadcast it's signal to connected TVs (videos etc) via the RF connection. This is an DVR output function, either for playback of HDD recorded video or display of freeview tuner signals.

Section 9.5 of the manual (thanks, had a good techy read - won't buy one - prefer my TiVo!) is about setting the RF channel (or selecting SCART as the better alternative) so that output video can be received by a TV (video etc...) tuned/scart'ed on the same channel. Very similar in fact to settings in all video recorders made in the last and this century.

The broadcast encoded compressed mpeg stream from the inbuilt freeview tuner is exactly what is recorded to the HDD. To record from other sources such as analogue television the box would have to have built in mpeg encoder. The only boxes that have this to-date don't have inbuilt freeview tuners.

To the OP; There are a number of DVD recorders with built in hard drives and analogue tuners (so built in mpeg encoder etc..). These are connectable via SCART to external freeview decoders/statellite. Obviously they won't record two programs at the same time, but on the other hand these units are being dumped on the market at a discount.

By the time freeview comes in your direction, using non-sky supplied satellite might be technically more attractive (or even distribution via broadband?) and freeview HDD devices will have fallen drastically in price. There is little inside all these boxes anyway - look at the falling cost of raw parts from the PC component world... and then what's inside a typical freeview DVR.

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Adrian C
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