Twin and Single Freeview tuners...

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You can now get freeview boxes with hard drives for recording on (40,80 gigabytes). Does anyone know what the differnce is between a single and twin Freeview tuner??

[kempie]

A single tuner means you can only record the Freeview channel you are currently watching.

A twin tuner enables you to watch one Freeview channel whilst recording another Freeview channel, or even to watch a Freeview channel in one room and other Freeview channels in a separate room.

[dodgyshirt]

In actual fact, some twin tuner models such as the Topfield which has a 160GB HDD will record 2 different programmes simultaneously and, depending upon the multiplex,even let watch a pre-recorded programme at the same time or time-lapse one of the programmes you are recording.

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cheers guys!