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HDD recorder and Sky

wongie3

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Posted December 25, 2011 at 1:48PM

Hi, Sorry if this is a silly question but I have Very limited understanding of technical things so I really need some help. At the moment I have Sky in my bedroom (the main Sky and box thing being in the front room). At the moment I have a DVD recorder attached but I would really like a DVD/HDD recorder instead. So what I am wondering is if I buy a HDD recorder but it already has freeview built in what will that do to my Sky signal? as I would like my Sky signal to outweigh the freeview (if that is possible). If that is possible could anyone recomend a good DVD/HDD recorder or a good HDD recorder. To be honest I wouuld like something basic as I know I will not use anything complicated. Any advise would be great Thank You

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morddwyd

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Posted December 25, 2011 at 7:32PM

I have Sky in my bedroom, fed from the box in the living room, and also a normal HDD freeview recorder as well,

The freeview recorder should plug into a different input on your bedroom tv and will have no effect on the Sky signal.

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QuizMan

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Posted December 28, 2011 at 11:19AM

On the TV, there is a button to select the source of the signal. Just select the appropriate one. On mine it is "TV" for Freeview and "HDMI" for Sky+HD, but others will vary no doubt.

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muddypaws

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Posted December 29, 2011 at 4:00PM

You should have more than one scart socket on the TV. If the Sky box is plugged into the appropriate one--then switching on the Sky box will auto switch the TV to the Sky. If it doesn't then try another TV scart socket. The TV manual normally shows them as either Aux.1. 2. or 3 OR AV1.2. or 3. The HDD can go into one of the others and you will have to manually select its input from the TV menu.

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