How am I going to be able to use my VHS recorders when digital is forced on us?
 

At present I have two video recorders which I use for recording two
different programmes at the same time, especialy when I'm out at the times
they are being broadcast.

I undersatnd that set top boxes are available for use with conventional TVs,
but how will that help me record differet programmes at the same time?

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Alan

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In article , Alan Holmes
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At present I have two video recorders which I use for recording two
different programmes at the same time, especialy when I'm out at the times
they are being broadcast.

I undersatnd that set top boxes are available for use with conventional TVs,
but how will that help me record differet programmes at the same time?

You have to buy additional set-top-boxes, or integrated (hard disk)
recorders (I was able to get a box for 10 GBP for the rare occasion that
there are two interesting programmes on), not the ideal cost free
solution, alternatively you could be more selective and watch less.

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Ian G8ILZ

On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:31:34 GMT, "Alan Holmes"
wrote:


At present I have two video recorders which I use for recording two
different programmes at the same time, especialy when I'm out at the times
they are being broadcast.

I undersatnd that set top boxes are available for use with conventional TVs,
but how will that help me record differet programmes at the same time?

You can do it just the way I already do it.

One digital TV box for each VHS recorder, connected to the "second" Scart
socket, i.e. the one that is not connected to the TV. The VCR instructions
will tell you how to record from that socket.

Note: if you have two digital set top boxes in the same room (e.g. one for
the TV and one for the VCR) ensure they are not the same make - you don't
want them both responding to the same remote control!

--
Peter Duncanson
UK

Alan Holmes wrote:
At present I have two video recorders which I use for recording two
different programmes at the same time, especialy when I'm out at the times
they are being broadcast.

I undersatnd that set top boxes are available for use with conventional TVs,
but how will that help me record differet programmes at the same time?

By the time "digital is forced on us" - settop boxes will be under £20,
i.e. affordable to dedicate to use with a video recorder. Actually,
since you fall into that rare category of actually useing a video
recorder to time shift (rather than watching prerecorded tapes as
seemingly 70% of users admit to doing so), have you been tempted into
the world of PVR yet?

--
Adrian

"Alan Holmes" wrote

At present I have two video recorders which I use for recording two
different programmes at the same time, especialy when I'm out at the
times they are being broadcast.

I undersatnd that set top boxes are available for use with
conventional TVs, but how will that help me record differet
programmes at the same time?

*****

You'll need a box for each video recorder.

But if you wait until analogue switch-off draws near, there's a good
chance that you will have replaced (willingly or otherwise) your video
recorders with, for instance, a twin tuner PVR.

André Coutanche

"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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At present I have two video recorders which I use for recording two
different programmes at the same time, especialy when I'm out at the times
they are being broadcast.

I undersatnd that set top boxes are available for use with conventional
TVs, but how will that help me record differet programmes at the same
time?

--
Alan

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In a few years vcr will be dead anyway. You will be better using on of these
http://www.superfi.co.uk/index.cfm/p.../source/kelkoo

Pilbs wrote:
"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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At present I have two video recorders which I use for recording two
different programmes at the same time, especialy when I'm out at the times
they are being broadcast.

I undersatnd that set top boxes are available for use with conventional
TVs, but how will that help me record differet programmes at the same
time?

--
Alan

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In a few years vcr will be dead anyway. You will be better using on of these
http://www.superfi.co.uk/index.cfm/p.../source/kelkoo


But not that make, which got such awful reviews its being discounted

Alan Holmes wrote:
At present I have two video recorders which I use for recording two
different programmes at the same time, especialy when I'm out at the times
they are being broadcast.

I undersatnd that set top boxes are available for use with conventional TVs,
but how will that help me record differet programmes at the same time?

You usage is non-typical so will be not be catered for. However, your
VCRs will be scrap by time analogue is switched off. Then you will
perhaps have something like a dual channel PVR that costs in real terms
less than one VCR

"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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I undersatnd that set top boxes are available for use with
conventional TVs,
but how will that help me record differet programmes at the same
time?


The first thing you need to do is post only to the correct group....

[ the wrong group has been cut from the FU's ]

Answer = Topfield TF5800 PVR

"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
...

At present I have two video recorders which I use for recording two
different programmes at the same time, especialy when I'm out at the times
they are being broadcast.

I undersatnd that set top boxes are available for use with conventional
TVs, but how will that help me record differet programmes at the same
time?

--
Alan

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