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Not a digital question:-) The LG RC299H DVD/VCR Combi is now a discontinued
product but as we live in an area with poor digital reception until 2012 and
I need a new analogue VCR I may be able to pick up cheaply. I read several
poor reports on it does anyone here have a verdict on it.
Derek.


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Not a digital question:-) The LG RC299H DVD/VCR Combi is now a
discontinued product but as we live in an area with poor digital reception
until 2012 and I need a new analogue VCR I may be able to pick up cheaply.
I read several poor reports on it does anyone here have a verdict on it.


Most PVRs have digital and analogue tuners so why wait? Also Richer Sounds
have some combination units still available.

Peter Crosland

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Peter Crosland wrote:
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Not a digital question:-) The LG RC299H DVD/VCR Combi is now a
discontinued product but as we live in an area with poor digital reception
until 2012 and I need a new analogue VCR I may be able to pick up cheaply.
I read several poor reports on it does anyone here have a verdict on it.


Most PVRs have digital and analogue tuners so why wait? Also Richer Sounds
have some combination units still available.

pedant

Some DVRs (aka DVD/HDD combos) have analogue and DTT tuners, I don't know of a
single PVR (aka HDD only) that has an analogue tuner ?

/pedant

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"Peter Crosland" wrote in message
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Not a digital question:-) The LG RC299H DVD/VCR Combi is now a
discontinued product but as we live in an area with poor digital
reception until 2012 and I need a new analogue VCR I may be able to pick
up cheaply. I read several poor reports on it does anyone here have a
verdict on it.


Most PVRs have digital and analogue tuners so why wait? Also Richer Sounds
have some combination units still available.

Peter Crosland
My nearest Richers only had a failed RC299H and a LG DVC9800 waiting to go
back. As they are shopsoiled, discontinued product not held in the warehouse
they can only be collected from branches.
We have a Humax PVR9200T which is great when we get a good signal
(Eastbourne) but I want a combi to copy tapes to DVD and have not seen any
with digital and analogue tuners.
Derek


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In message , Peter
Crosland wrote
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Not a digital question:-) The LG RC299H DVD/VCR Combi is now a
discontinued product but as we live in an area with poor digital reception
until 2012 and I need a new analogue VCR I may be able to pick up cheaply.
I read several poor reports on it does anyone here have a verdict on it.


Most PVRs have digital and analogue tuners so why wait? Also Richer Sounds
have some combination units still available.


Most PVRs only have digital tuners.

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In article ,
Alan wrote:
Most PVRs have digital and analogue tuners so why wait? Also Richer
Sounds have some combination units still available.


Most PVRs only have digital tuners.

Are there any PVRs with analogue tuners? Seems that would add muchly to
the cost - needing a A-D convertor. If there are does it mean they can
also accept an external analogue signal?

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In article ,
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Most PVRs only have digital tuners.

Are there any PVRs with analogue tuners? Seems that would add muchly to
the cost - needing a A-D convertor. If there are does it mean they can
also accept an external analogue signal?

Depends what you consider to be a PVR. Certainly my Panasonic
DVD-recorder-with-hard-disk can do that.

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In article , DerekF
wrote:
We have a Humax PVR9200T which is great when we get a good signal
(Eastbourne) but I want a combi to copy tapes to DVD and have not seen any
with digital and analogue tuners.

If by "combi" you mean a disk recorder combined with VHS, then my advice
would be to forget it and buy a cheap VHS as a separate box, because you'll
be throwing it away long before the disk recorder has outlived its
usefulness. This will also give you far more freedom of choice in selecting
the disk recorder. As far as I know all the ones with DVD drives will have
inputs for external sources, and I don't know if they all include analogue
tuners but I have a Panasonic one that definitely does.

The leaflets and spec sheets may not even mention if a recorder with a
digital tuner also includes an analogue one, and the salesdroids in the shop
may not know. In general, assume a PVR with a hard drive only will not have
one because that would require a lot of extra electronics, but anything with
a DVD drive might have one. There probably won't be any buttons or menu items
marked "digital" and "analogue", but the analogue channels may appear on
higher numbers like 901, 902, etc., so you can try these in the shop.

Rod.
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LG RC299H
 

Most PVRs only have digital tuners.

Are there any PVRs with analogue tuners? Seems that would add muchly to
the cost - needing a A-D convertor. If there are does it mean they can
also accept an external analogue signal?

Depends what you consider to be a PVR. Certainly my Panasonic
DVD-recorder-with-hard-disk can do that.


Exactly! I am not sure why the term PVR was invented. It seems to me that a
video recorder without the facility to transfer recordings to DVD is
somewhat limited. I do have one myself along with DVD recorder that has a
HDD. so I have the facility to record three programs at once using the
facilities of the two units.

Peter Crosland

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In article ,
Peter Crosland wrote:
Exactly! I am not sure why the term PVR was invented. It seems to me
that a video recorder without the facility to transfer recordings to
DVD is somewhat limited.

You're joking, surely? Why would anyone with a decent sized HD in their
recorder want to archive off air material regularly - given the number of
repeats?

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