"Jonathan Buzzard" wrote in message
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How about the I don't have a STB scenario, and the only way to get DTT is
through the tunner in my DVR box. Hence I need two tuners so I can watch
one channel while recording another.

Well I can see how it might happen, but the problem is you're being
inconsistent in your approach, you're expecting the recorder to provide
functionality that rightly belongs in the TV. Eventually you would replace
your TV with one that has an integrated DTT tuner. After you've done that,
assuming as I was that your recorder has not the throughput to handle two
simultaneous recordings, what good is the second tuner then?

I suspect many people (myself included) would like to junk the STB, DVD
player and video recorder, and replace them with one single do it all
device, leading to far less clutter, and reclaim the space for other
things.

Different topic, but ok, let's discuss it ...

This is rather like the DIYers problem of whether to buy a power tool kit
with lots of different attachments or separate tools. The former is cheaper
and more compact to store if you don't have a workshop, but you have to keep
changing the attachments while you're working, though perhaps the most
significant argument, as I found to my cost, is that if your drill goes down
and the firm has gone bust (Stanley-Bridges), you're left with a load of
expensive attachments that have suddenly become junk metal.

I hate the cable clutter too, but the problem with your proposal is that if
one element of the box breaks, the rest of the edifice may have to be
replaced along with the bit that was broken. Similarly if a new standard
such as HD comes along.

Perhaps an answer might be some sort of super fast network connection that
can handle multiple streaming - such that, for example, your TV would
display the signal being sent to it over the connection from a given source.
You'd still have to connect all the pieces, but the cables would be less
bulky, and there would be far fewer of them, just a loop visiting each in
turn rather like the RF feed. You wouldn't have the horrendous problems of
SCART switching that even a moderately complicated system gets into, and it
would be easy to transfer recordings to your PC for DVD authoring.

Sony are bringing out a new flagship model in October that has a 250GB
HDD/DVD DL recorder with Freeview. It is replacing the now defunct
RDR-HX1000

This ?:-
http://www.dttboxes.co.uk/dvdrvcr/sony-rdrhxd710.html

(But only one DTT tuner :-( )



That looks like it's baby brother or little sister, replacement for the
HX900 perhaps.

Steve

That looks like it's baby brother or little sister, replacement for the
HX900 perhaps.



Update I reckon it's more it's little sister as it has a cheapo plastic
front panel and casing. Sony flagship's have quality chassis with metal
front panel.

Steve

"Staiger" wrote in message
"Martin Underwood" wrote in message

Why has no-one yet brought out a model that contains DVD, HDD and
Freeview?

The manufacturers deliberately drip-feed new features in order to milk the
maximum possible amount of money out of the public.

Each new feature stimulates another round of sales. And you can be sure
that all the hardware and software 'hooks' for the extra goodies are in
there from day one, to make it very simple and cheap to enhance the
products later on.

Marketing, they call it. The *******s.


You're quite right. The only way to fight back is not to buy anything until
they have the right spec (DVD, HDD and Freeview) in one box. Even then I'll
wait for a few months for the price to drop to something that I could call
sensible, which I reckon would be under £200. In the mean time I have Sky
and a Freeview box feeding my various VCRs which seem to have adequate
picture quality.

Ian