Anyone use one?
A little device that comprises of small box with a hinged or fixed scart plug that plugs directly into the scart socket of a TV or VCR that picks up freeview channels.
Not this one specifically ( tinyurl.com/3chbh96 ) but something similar?
Contemplating whether it would be suitable to stop a VCR from being made redundant due to the digital switchover this month in my area.
All TVs in the house have freeview built in, but as we've only got the one sky+ box, we'll be fighting over recording of programs shortly. Reluctant to pay Sky any more money for multiroom or SkyHD with multiroom thrown in as part of the deal.
Have contemplated getting a twin tuner freeview recorder, but it seems a shame to scrap 2 perfectly good VCRs if they can be converted to receive freeview.
One last question, presumably most if not all freeview boxes (including this scart type one) have timers? - the ones I've found via google have anyway. Does this mean that channels are automatically changed, or does it just put a reminder on the screen and you manually have to select another channel? Thinking along the lines that this device would be useless if you were out for the day and wanted to record more than one channel on the VCR if the timer function still needed manual intervention.
Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 6 Sep 11 at 21:26
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