I am not a technie & I dont know about tuners. I have a digital cable box. Will I be able to record TV shows onto blank DVD with no extra hardware?
1324393
Short answer, yes. Just connect the recorder to the box by a cable. Most boxes have several outputs. You can connect the recorder to the box, then to the TV (i.e., have the recorder in series with the TV), or put the recorder and the TV onto separate box outputs (parallel connection). If you have a DVR, you can record from the DVR onto a DVD also.
1082002
If you can connect to the output rca port of your tv tuner. Since the dvd recorder does not have a tuner it cannot record directly.
1324394
Yes. Only be sure the cable box is connected to the video and audio inputs of the DVD recorder
622087
If you don't have a cable or satellite receiver and are receiving your tv signals with an antenna, you either have a tv with a digital tuner or a separate digital tuner/ converter box connected to your tv. If you're using a digital converter box from your antenna to the tv, connect the outputs from the digital converter box into the inputs of Toshiba DR430 Recorder and then connect the outputs of the recorder to the TV inputs. You will be connecting from the video (yellow jack), audio (red & white jacks) to the same colored jacks in & out from the Toshiba DVD Recorder to an input on the TV. If you're not using a digital converter box already for your local stations, you will have to buy one to connect to the Toshiba Recorder to record local shows because the recorder does not have a tuner in it. You can buy them for about $30 bucks at Wal-Mart or Radio Shack. I gave you a lot of information but it's easy to setup. They can guide you at Radio Shack. I have one box hooked just this way and it works fine. Hope this was of help.
1349821
Will this work for recording dvds off Dishnetwork. Do I need a separate tuner? Would I be better off buying a recorder with a built in tuner? Right now I'm using a Panasonic DMR-EZ47V Up-Converting 1080p DVD-Recorder/VCR Combo with Built In Tuner which works fine.
622088
One unfortunate drawback of this recorder is its lack of a tuner. If you get your television programs using cable or a satellite, this is not a problem. However, if you get your programming over the air using an antenna or your television's internal tuner, then you are not able to record directly from your television.
1380126
yes but it is an NTSC (analog) not ATSC (digital) tuner. you will still need a convertor box to record over the air television
533573
I have mine hooked to my Dish Network receiver, I just put the receiver on the channel I want to record from, I do have to change channels through the receiver for different programs, so I would say YES, you will need an external tuner. I do like this DVD recorder, I purchased another one for my bedroom.
1905019
No. It doesn't have a tuner built in so you would need to have a tuner, cable, or satellite box to record a program on this.
1683309
Yes, you will be able to set up recording of programs off the air ahead of time but the feature does not work the way you would expect. In my tuner, the calendar is a few days behind the actual date and I always need to correct programming for that offset. The other inconvenience is that the tuner does not automatically takes the channel number and the time from the program guide. I need to set up recording manually. To make HD TV recording it is important to use a fast USB 3.0 hard or flash drive. I am using PNY flash drive with 130MB/s writing speed and it provides high quality HD recording.
2106974
Was going to buy for my mom, but wanted to verify that you can record TV programs without a built in tuner which is the case in this unit. Mom has cable but no cable box Jon T , did your situation work?
1430647
Will I be able to record shows that are stored on my cable dvr to this dvd recorder? Has anyone tried this?
893679
You gotta have a tuner. Whether it's a cable box, a DVR, or a Digital-to analog converter like those available for old analog tv's doesn't matter. It just has to have a tuner and A/V outputs that your recorder can accept.
1266494
My Toshiba DR560 only plays DVDs, it doesn't record. I have 2 older DVD recorders with digital tuners that can be programmed to record on DVDs for any time, day or night, whether I am home or not home. Once programmed, they are turned off and they start and stop automatically based on the start & stop times you programmed them for, recording quality, channel, etc. Please note: I have only "antenna TV". I don't have cable, dish, etc. TV. I use my recorders to record programs that I receive with my antenna from local TV stations. I don't know how a DVD recorder with a digital tuner would work on a cable, dish, etc., setup. Hope that helps...?
625374
the unit has a tuner, but, it's not digital, please consult your owners manual. or, contact the manufacturer for other questions, possibly your cable provider could answer these questions more throughly also. my unit performs great....good luck with yours.
1595152
cooper, I'm a novice too, but It did'nt take me long to set up my cable tv, to record on the SiliconDust HDHomeRun DUAL..., just set up the tuners on the dual first, then on the windows media center on the computer,, over air or cable tv,,set up is the same, I'm sure It Is..that is how I set It up. I have windows media center on my pc, ( windows 7 pro..) also, windows media center will walk you threw It, ...It was easy to do It.. from dennis..
1043472
Yes, this is a non-HD device. Just for clarification you don't record from a TV, you record from a standard definition analog input source (e.g. composite [video, right audio, left audio] antenna, or cable (not 100% sure, but I think it has a cable tuner). You will hook up your TV to the DVD recorder, your TV will just function as an output device.
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The tuner will provide the PC the same digital transport stream that your local broadcasting company is sending. Thus there's no quality settings here. Of course it would be possible to decode the provided stream and then encode it again using any quality setting (so called transcoding), but this is not supported by the software that is included. There is free software available that you can use to later convert the recordings to different format. My local broadcaster sends SD channels that are about 400 kilobytes per second and HD channels about 1 megabyte per second.
1890786
Yes, as long as you have a tuner or cable box. You must have a tuner or cable box with Audio/Video outputs (the white/yellow/red outputs). I use my cable box to record to the unit (VHS or DVD) every day.