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Originally Posted by bxd
It's not strange at all ... the dvd recorder can only record one thing at a time and you have another tv tuner in your tv (analog or digital) to watch. That's no different from a vhs machine. With a HDD-dvd recorder you can watch something from the HDD while you are recording something else ... you'd need a second vcr to do that.
Since you can only record one thing at a time, a second tuner on a dvd recorder would be a bit pointless. OK, you could use it to "pass thru" a signal to your tv, but you're just duplicating the tuner that's already on the tv (or Freeview box) and it would be an additional expense to the manufacturer.
Brian
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The point I think you're missing, Brian, is that people are simply comparing HDD/DVD recorders with PVRs. On your logic, there is also no reason for putting twin tuners in PVRs either. Imo the nub of the matter is that lots of people still have non-digital TVs, and quite understandably want to watch one Freeview programme while recording another
and be able to record/dub onto DVDs, without needing
three pieces of equipment.