Since I bought a DVB-T decoder for my TV, I couldn't record anything anymore on my VCR : the video recorder did not have a SCART input, and that was the only way my DVB decoder offered a connection. I was already thinking about getting me a DVB decoder with hard disk, but that wouldn't let me record anything on video tape or DVD.


I spotted a digital VCR in the shop, which combined a HDD recorder with a DVD recorder, and I knew that was the gizmo I was looking for : it has a 250 GB hard disk, which offers me a maximum recording time of 320 hours, which should be sufficient ;)
What remains is digitalising all my video tapes; while trying that, the HDD recorder choked on the VCR signal when I connected the VCR output SCART with the input scart of the HDD recorder, even up to a point where I feared I foobarred the machine. Luckily, the machine came back up after some scary moments. Connecting the VCR with a coax cable worked, as the VCR emitted a signal around 590 MHz, which was detected by the HDD recorder.