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I have the above with Freesat and Freview built in. Anyone know if I can record on Freesat(FA Cup highlights) and switch to Freeview without upsetting the recording?

Does it come with the fit gymnast in the advert?

should be ok. one shouldn't interfere with the other i'd guess. 2 seperate inputs

Unfortunately not Si otherwise I wouldn't be recording the footie

@arriba, first sentence

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As they're two separate tuners it shouldn't interfere

Ah ok, it appears if I try to switch TV Tuners from Freesat to Freeview it tells me the Tuner is locked, but yep I agree you should be able to switch between the two. So the ony thing I can do if I'm recording is switch to an AV or HDMI input

which tv is it? I have a panny and love it but am thinking of goind for something bigger.(mines a 32 inch) It would deffo be another panasonic if i upgrade.

I thought this was going to be about us signing a wonder kid related to Patrick.

It's a TXL37DT30B 3D Got good reviews, and has shit loads of connections, unfortunately only one scart. Very pleased with it arriba

Sorry to disappoint jonny

I have a Panasonic with Freeview and Freesat and I can't flick between them when recording, which I found a bit strange. I can use other inputs though like you said.

On a related note, I wouldn't buy another Plasma. I haven't had any issues, as such, although I do notice flicker from fast moving horizontal images and I hate the paranoia of worrying about images being burned permanently in. My next TV will be an LCD.

Goes by the name of Sophie Brundish....18 years old so legal.

Both technologies have their advantages.

Plasma is good for gaming due to low input lag, better for sport due to better motion handing, offers deeper blacks and a more natural colour palette.

Screen burn is a thing of the past but image retention can happen if you leave a menu for a game for example on the screen for a long time. It goes eventually though.

Plasma is also viewing angle free.

This is the thing. It seems most of the information I used for due diligence is made up of those who have no experience of both. I had an old LCD and I mean old - £1500 for a 32". It had no lag and unless you put it next to a new TV you'd not know the colours were crap.

Same with viewing angle, this was really old, but there's no viewing angle problems. If you could see the screen you could see the picture. And yeah, image retention is a bugbear. I once forgot Sky was paused while I went and did other things for an hour or so. Now you didn't notice it as such, but if the screen was a fairly uniform colour it was noticeable for about 2 days.

Then there's flicker. I never once recall noticing flicker on my old LCD, yet I regularly notice it on my Plasma. There's also the whole widecreen movie thing. You need to blow up the picture to remove the black borders, or they too get retained. It's just a lot of fuss for something that seems to offer no advantages that I can discern.

The black borders as susposed to be there for movies Barry, it's how movies are intended to be watched.

No shit Raphly?! Thanks for not being patronising...

The point I was trying to make was that on a Plasma they get retained. To be honest I should probably just forget about being excessively careful and see what happens.

Or 3 years past her prime if your Jayo

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and they're meant to annoy everyone for being so bloody pointless

Must confess, I always zoom up

With regards to the Viera I have a 500gb portable hdd connected for recording. A WD Live Hub media player(1000gb hdd) connected via HDMI and another 500gb drive connected to that, so just send any media down over the network to the 500gb. Networked by 500mbps Devolo homeplugs. Works quite well

So no way to watch one channel while recording another when using Freeview or Freesat, unless I watch something on my satellite

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