I have a digital tv and a vhs video. When i record a programme, it?

Question

invariably records the wrong station. This wasn't the case when i had an analgue tv. Can anyone help me?

Regards

Aitch

Answer 1

Sounds likr you need a digital recorder

Answer 2

Do you have to video recorder set to the right 'AV' channel?

Answer 3

It's possible that there is simply no digital signal going to your recorder. The TV recognises the digital signal because it has a digital tuner - your recorder probably hasn't. So unless the TV has a facility to transfer the digital signal to your recorder vis a Scart connection (check your TV's manual) you can't do it with your present setup.

Buying a separate Freeview box for your recorder, and splitting the signal from your aerial (1 to TV, 1 to Freeview box) would be the answer.

Answer 4

trying to figure this out for my dads set up. mine i have a seperate digital box, older tv, i simply select digi channel and record then click tv remote and i can watch analogue channels while digital records. simple.

if i'm right, modern tecnology and progress means you can't do that?

Answer 5

When I switch my DVD recorder and TV to AV, it displays the previously selected Freeview channel even though a different Sky program was being watched beforehand. On recording, whatever is on the screen is copied.  So, what you see on setting up, maybe is not what you get.

Recording is via SCART from TV.

Answer 6

if the tv has freeview built in then you have to have the tv on and set it to the correct freeview channel in order to record it to video....

best thing for you is to buy a stand-alone freeview box, you can get them for £10+ and use that to record the programmes

Answer 7

with digital TV unless you have a digital VCR you can only record the program on the channel that your TV is on at the time not like analogue where you could watch one channel and record another

Answer 8

Retune your vcr & make sure the correct channel is selected before you press the record button.