Question on desktop recorders

[robboone]

I am looking to purchase a recorder with a hard drive. Can you record a program and watch another at the same time? I currently have digital cable with a settop box. Sorry if this is to much of a newbie question

[donpedro]

I am looking to purchase a recorder with a hard drive. Can you record a program and watch another at the same time? I currently have digital cable with a settop box. Sorry if this is to much of a newbie question

Yes and No. It depends what is "program" in your terminology.

In the begining... do you have VCR ? Yes ? Than it is working same way with DVD Recorder. I am talking here about conncting to cable box and tuning to different channels and recording.

Only difference is that with VCR you can't watch movie that is on the beggining of your tape while recording on the end. With DVD Recorder with Hard Drive you can

[shutterbug]

Robboone-- With the Panasonics, Yes you can.

[donpedro]

Robboone-- With the Panasonics, Yes you can.

Sorry to trying to be "correct" but it all depends what he is asking. One of the answers is : "No you cannot record one program from cable box (lets say channel 201) and watch another channel from cable box (for example 225) on Panasonic. You will need two cable boxes for that. Or in other words... Panasonic does not have functionality (tuner/decoder) of Cable Box, only Cable TV."

[shutterbug]

I'm curious as to why new folks who post a question can rarely get a simple, succinct answer from other *experts*.

Q: Hi, I'd like to record a program to a DVD.
A: Well that depends what you mean by *record* and what type of DVD. Did you want 44.1k digital Dolby™ MTS, 5 speaker Surround Sound audio with a 300 mb/sec, quad channel hybrid triple layer video according to the new proposed XYZ forum industry standard? ..... Then you bring it into your PC, re-author, edit, shrinkwrap, paint it blue, re-encode then do a data burn at 400x....blah blah blah.

I understand there is sometimes a language barrier with folks posting from various parts of the world, but how about sticking to the old K.I.S.S. acronym.....Keep It Simple Stupid.

The answer is YES With at least the Panasonic E-80 and 100 models, you can watch a program from either your hard drive, built in tuner or cable box (or any other input device connected to it), while recording from any of the other sources at the same time.

As I pointed out in another thread (which someone previously tried to contradict), the Panasonic built-in tuner is analog and will not receive Digital cable channels above 125 w/o the aid of a digital cable box .

Just answer the question.

[hech54]

I'm curious as to why new folks who post a question can rarely get a simple, succinct answer from other *experts*.

Simple:
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance - baffle them with the bullsh|t"

It runs rampant on message boards.

Good answer by the way.

[donpedro]

Why ? Becouse I saw people that after reading simple answer went to stre and bought DVD Recorder. After they came home and pluged everything together they were surprised why is it not working. That's why. Do you have problem with that ? DVD Recorders are fare from simple world...

People are mixing terms like Subtitle/Close Caption, Chapter/Title/Menu, Channel/Program, "Watching one channel and recording another" without understanding what is going on. Like one guy that bought DVD Recorder that supports PAL and NTSC in US. Yes, true... but when he got to another country that broadcasts in PAL he was surprised why he can't tune in to any channel. So simple abswer is very missleding in some cases. Got it ?

If question is clear, answer can be short. Read this
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=200835

[Captain Satellite]

I live for the day that they ban you, donpedro.

[hech54]

Captain my Captain....

[bugster]

I am afraid I am with donpedro on this one.

The question is open to interpretation, so a simple answer could use the wrong interpretation.