Why Don DVD Recorders With Hard Drive Functionality Have Twin Digital Tuners?
Consumers often ask why it is that DVD recorders with hard drive functionality tend not to have twin digital tuners, a feature that would allow them to watch one digital channel and record a different one. The reason for the omission of this useful option is explained in this two-part series. The explanation for the lack of twin digital tuners in DVD recorders with hard drive capability is more complex than you might imagine. To begin with, you need to accept that in these machines, anything recorded to the hard disk has to be good enough for recording onto a DVD disk in a fraction of the time it takes to watch the programme. So why is this? This is because consumers are used to CD recorders and DVD recorders that can record much faster than the playback time, and a DVD recorder that could not do this would be labelled as “slow” and would probably not be commercially viable because of this. So what has the DVD recording speed to do with dual tuner functionality? Well, this is where thi
