Recording One Show; Watching Another

[dottie]

I have a new TruTech TT1620 and wanted to watch one show while recording a different one. The manual doesn't show how to do this and I am not sure it is possible. Does anyone know? If you do know how, please tell me how to set it up in the simplest terms possible. Thanks.

[BJ_M]

you dont say how you have this connected ... if cable and you dont use a cable box, split the cable with a rf splitter - one to tv and one to recorder ...


if you have a cable box (digital) -- you can still spit before the box , but not to many stations to the recorder ....

or use two digital boxs .... or get a dual tuner or get a pvr ....

lots of options but need more info

[zoobie]

recorders have their own tuner
set your recorder to record whatever channel
set your tv to watch whatever channel

[dottie]

The recorder is connected by VCR and then to TV. We have cable but no box. We did try to start the recorder on one channel and then switch to another but when we do, everything changes to the new channel.

It's been difficult to program this recorder because the remote is so very very small. And the directions aren't anything to brag about.

[handyguy]

No, you record a program & then push buttons on your TV<----- to watch another program, as mentioned above. They don't use TV/VCR buttons on recorders.

[dottie]

We got lucky. My neighbor's son came over and helped. We ended up connecting the DVD Recorder to the cable line and then connecting the DVD Recorder to the TV. Disconnected the VCR.... will just have to connect it up and turn off DVD when we want to watch tape. Thanks anyway.

[handyguy]

Well, you should also connect the RF out of the recorder to your tv.