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TV recording to HDD

catpwss
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Posted November 14, 2011 at 7:14PM

Hi.I have a samsung tv & a samsung dvd recorder with hdd.Is it possible to connect two dvd recorders to one tv,Freeview ones. Thanks.

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john bunyan

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Posted November 15, 2011 at 4:38PM

I can see no reason why not. You would need to "daisy chain" the incoming TV aerial and maybe have seperate SCART leads to the TV , or these could also be joined at source with those female SCART sockets wich detect which Recorder is sending to the TV.

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catpwss

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Posted November 15, 2011 at 8:34PM

john bunyan,many thanks for the update.but can you be a little more elaborate on the "daisy chain" method you mentioned,At the moment the samsung recorder is connected to the tv with an HDMI cable and as you know the aerial cable goes to the dvd recorder and from there to the tv.Could you please tell me more on the "daisy chain" method regarding the aerial cable. I do hope that you can help me out here "please". Thanks.d.

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natdoor

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Posted November 16, 2011 at 10:26AM

If both DVD recorders have Freeview tuners in-built, then each will have an RF In (Aerial) socket. It is usual also to have an RF Out socket and you have that on your Samsung unit connected to the TV. A daisy chain would have the RF Out from one recorder connected to the RF In of the other and then to the TV from RF Out. This is only necessary if you wish to record two Freeview channels concurrently or record one and watch another. It may also be necessary to have one on standby when not otherwise in use. An alternative arrangement would be to use an aerial splitter, which provides two outputs and insert this either to the cable from the aerial or to the output from Samsung.

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catpwss

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Posted November 16, 2011 at 11:22AM

Many thanks,That info was just fine.

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john bunyan

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Posted November 16, 2011 at 12:57PM

Further to natdoors advice this is worth a read!!

http://www.jimsaerials.co.uk/freeview/scart/scart.htm

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catpwss

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Posted November 16, 2011 at 1:10PM

Brilliant,Thanks all.

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catpwss

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Posted November 16, 2011 at 1:40PM

Update.Followed the info supplied,Connected two freeview recorders to my samsung tv,And all working fine. Thanks again forum great stuff.Thankyou.c.

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