You View

[Johnny96]

I have just cancelled my sky tv package in favour of Freeview. My tv (KD-49XD8305) has you view built in which is reported to be quite good. Question is..can I record programmes without having to buy a Freeview HD Recorder box. My remote control has a record function but I have no idea how or if it works. I know there is catch up on the various players, however I do like the record function.

[gcac2828]

Forget Youview because you can't mark a program to watch or record later.

Freeview on Sony only give BBC iPayer & Demand 5.

So the answer is buy a PVR HD Recorder which will give many-many hours of recording time dependant on it's hard drive size.

At present we use a HUMAX for this purpose.

[royabrown]

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@gcac2828 wrote (and Roy added in italics):

Forget YouView on the TV because you can't mark a programme to watch or record later.

True.

Freeview on Sony only gives BBC iPlayer & Demand 5.

But there is a workaround to get the ITV and All4 players on the Freeview side.

So the answer is buy a PVR HD Recorder which will give many-many hours of recording time dependant on its hard drive size.

And be a lot better suited to the job than the bye-the-bye features provided on these TVs.

At present we use a HUMAX for this purpose.

Who make both a good Freeview Play recorder and a good YouView recorder, which you should look at and choose from. YouView on a PVR is a quite different, and rather superior, animal from the cut-down YouView on the TV itself, and one on which you very much can mark a programme to watch or record later, and do all sorts of things over and above what YouView on the TV can do.

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