d v d recorders

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hi might be being a bit thick here but am i right in thinking if i have sky and a freeview telly i dont need a d v d recorder to have built in freeview to be able to record programs from freeview can i just do it from sky? also how does the sony rdr gx350 fair as a d v d recorder

thank in advance

 

[Anonymous]

can anybody help?

 

[Dave_]

am i right in thiking, your asking that if you have a tv with inbuilt freeview tuner and also have sky+ that you can record freeview programmes with the sky box, if so the answers no i'm affraid, you can only record sky programmes with the sky box.

 

[Cofnchtr]

Hi,

Although most of (if not all) Freeview channels are on the SKY platform too.

Cheers,

Cofnchtr.

 

[Dave_]

that is true

 

[Anonymous]

I don't think anyone has actually answered the question being asked here.

You can connect your Sky box to the DVD recorder and record to DVD or HDD (if available) as desired.

By means of a Proof of Concept - my kids recently managed to do this without meaning to - 6 hours of CBeebies anyone?

Whether you can feed the freeview signal back out from the TV to any other device, I don't know, but then as has been noted, you will have access to most/all those channels via the Sky box anyway.

I purchased a Sony DVD recorder at the end of last year and opted for a model with a freeview tuner as a possible pre-cursor to dumping SKY (in the event my aerial is not up to the job, can't pick up MUX1). Freeview tuners are becoming pretty much ubiquitous, a cheap and easy add-on to boost the feature list.

I would recommend you don't bother with the freeview option - assuming you can avoid it!

 

[Anonymous]

thanks for the reply rogueelement that has answered my question has anybody got any thoughts on the sony d v d player

R D R G X 350