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Originally Posted by chambece
Unfortunatly, this is the way things work - You're right - (most) VHS recorders did get tuners analog tuners from day 1, although I'm sure that just like you can find video *players* you can find recorders that will just record from an AV source - I'm thinking for things like CCTV.
And the other thing is, although they had tuners in since day 1, when NICAM came out it'd probably take untill the majority of the country had NICAM TVs before most videos were made nicam by default...
the other thing is now how many videos can you get that record SVIDEO, or RGB? And how many people couldn't get DTT through their exsisting ariels or due to location, and would moan if it didn't come with a normal tuner?
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When VHS was brought out there was only one flavour of transmission UHF. No DTT, CATV, SatTV so putting a tuner in was a no brainer, the same one could / would be used by all. Nobodies going to bother putting any alternative kind of tuner in a VHS these days they are made with pennies of profit margin now. Look at the spec on your average £60 player, Nicam stereo, SVHS play and NTSC playback, things that would have cost £400+ a few pre digital years ago.
Now there are four flavours of digital TV transmission, all requiring different hardware and their network providers marketing competing products (sky+ and similar products exist on the US cable networks).
For this to work you would need a modular decoder slot which you could put the relevant hardware into to enable you to decode your broadcast source. This would not really work for the cable providers as they bring their own hardware. It could work well for Sky and DTT (and DTT+ TopUp, but would require some opeing up of the CATV networks.
Personally I would have thought that HDD recording with a DVD archive function would be the way forward though.
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Originally Posted by Geoff103
I agree, it's second-best solution but, while I have NTL cable, there's still an external terrestrial aerial outlet in my TV room and a DVD recorder with integral DTT tuner would - with appropriate cabling between various boxes and my Plasma screen allow recording one digital channel while watching another at the same time.
Does everyone who hooks up to cable, immediately have any external aerial removed? I doubt it.
So, I suppose I could look at a Freeview box - though DTT is currently not receivable in my part of Farnham!
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And poor in my part of Hertford, as is analoge terrestrial, probably why there is a good takeup of cable and sky in the area so yes I still have a £250 areial on the roof, but the reception despite spending a fortune (when NTL said no service existied outside my house) is still pants and not worth recording. The pass through on the NTL cable does much the same trick (no Channel 5 vs poor reception of C5).