Re: PVRs with Hybrid Tuners?


"Adrian C" <email@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> MikeS wrote:
>> "Jomtien" <jomtien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>"MikeS" <mikesansom@hotmail .com> wrote:
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>>>>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.
>
> --
> Adrian C
Thanks Adrian,
That's cleared that
MikeS


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