Freesat transmissions & recording

[Cliff1]

If i wanted to record a film that was in SD ,from one of the movie channels available on freesat,i understand that it has about 5,could i record it on my DVD hard disc recorder or would i have get the freesat humax pvr.Trying to get everything sorted in my head before i start spending the hard earned.

 

[Anonymous]

I have a Sony DVD/HDD recorder and have my Freesat HD box plugged into that for making recordings. You don't need the Humax PVR, but that has the advantage that you can record from one channel while viewing another.

 

[Cliff1]

DenP

Thanks for reply,another issue sorted.

 

[Cliff1]

Den

Another one for you,if you are recording a SD Freesat channel to the Sony recorder,can you switch to watching freeview without having problems.

 

[Anonymous]

The Sony recorder will record whatever source you've set it to, either it's own analogue tuner, it's Freeview tuner or one of the line inputs. If you have your Freesat box plugged into Line 1 for example and have set the recorder to record that line, it'll carry on regardless of what you tune your tv to. The only time you'd have a problem is if you're watching TV via the feed from the recorder, but that's only necessary if you're viewing a recording.

In this part of the country we don't have Freeview, which is the main reason for me getting Freesat, so I can't give you an answer from experience of Freeview, but I don't see how you would have a problem.

My TV has it's own Freeview tuner built in, so in your situation I'd just switch to the TV Freeview tuner. That wouldn't affect the recorder or the Freesat box.

Hope I'm making sense.

 

[Cliff1]

Den

Yes,makes sense,that is the way i was expecting because of the two tv connections.

Cheers

Cliff