We have cable TV at home, with a cable box/DVR. In the RV, we have two digital TV. we have good reception most places, and watch most stations in HD if it is being broadcast. What we need is a video recorder to use in the RV to record shows and be able to watch them at a later time. Looking at various stores and such, I have not been ablt to find one at all, much less at a reasonable price. Are they even available, and what kind of price and service should we expect??

would you believe about $30that will get you a PVR "personal video recorder"it has an HDtv digital tuner, records to USB stick, or external powered usb hhdyou furnish the the usb stick/or drive, no built in recording mediarecords in HD the signal that is being transmitted, and output on hdmi or a/v to the TV

I have a TiVo. Look it up. Works good. Has 4 tuners. Big storage.

MrWizard wrote:would you believe about $30that will get you a PVR "personal video recorder"it has an HDtv digital tuner, records to USB stick, or external powered usb hhdyou furnish the the usb stick/or drive, no built in recording mediarecords in HD the signal that is being transmitted, and output on hdmi or a/v to the TVa link pleasethanksbumpy

If you do a search on Amazon for 'PVR' you will get several under $40 results. I purchased an iView and HomeWorx brand a while back and they functioned the same. It takes a while to figure them out.They come with no hard drive so you will have to add one to use the PVR function. They have only one tuner so you can only record one show at a time. The ones I have will display a very rudimentary program guide and it takes a long time to populate it. Once you change channels it has to populate the guide again.I would suggest going with one that has the best user reviews. Hopefully they have improved the user interface and fixed some of the quirks.

Tried posting a link a couple times but just get the spinning circle. Search Iview 3500STBii on Amazon.

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Hank_MI
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Feb 23, 2017
Seems half the time when trying to reply on this forum it just sits and spins.
Hank_MI
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Feb 23, 2017
Tried posting a link a couple times but just get the spinning circle. Search Iview 3500STBii on Amazon.
Tom_M1
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Feb 23, 2017
If you do a search on Amazon for 'PVR' you will get several under $40 results. I purchased an iView and HomeWorx brand a while back and they functioned the same. It takes a while to figure them out.

They come with no hard drive so you will have to add one to use the PVR function. They have only one tuner so you can only record one show at a time. The ones I have will display a very rudimentary program guide and it takes a long time to populate it. Once you change channels it has to populate the guide again.

I would suggest going with one that has the best user reviews. Hopefully they have improved the user interface and fixed some of the quirks.
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Feb 23, 2017
MrWizard wrote:
would you believe about $30

that will get you a PVR "personal video recorder"
it has an HDtv digital tuner, records to USB stick, or external powered usb hhd
you furnish the the usb stick/or drive, no built in recording media

records in HD the signal that is being transmitted, and output on hdmi or a/v to the TV

a link please
thanks
bumpy
Mandalay_Parr
Explorer
Feb 23, 2017
I have a TiVo. Look it up. Works good. Has 4 tuners. Big storage.
MrWizard
Moderator
Feb 23, 2017
would you believe about $30

that will get you a PVR "personal video recorder"
it has an HDtv digital tuner, records to USB stick, or external powered usb hhd
you furnish the the usb stick/or drive, no built in recording media

records in HD the signal that is being transmitted, and output on hdmi or a/v to the TV

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