TV with built in freeview HD recorder

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Do you get any TV's with a freeview HD recorder built in? Seems silly to have a TV with freeview built in and then have to buy a box with freeview just so it will record, but I can't find one!

Alternatively do you get a cinema surround Blue ray player with freeview recorder built in? Can find the player with the freeview built in, but not with the sound.

I only really want one box in the unit and I can't find any oprions that work. Only a TV, a freeview recorder and a surround sound system. I want the one system to work for freeview TV, including recording 2 channels, pausing, rewinding etc, to work for watching Blueray films and to work for listening to radio and iPod. Any advice welcomed!

Best answers:

• A modern LCD/LED slimline TV does not have room for a hard drive and twin tuners in it.
  And if one component fails, you'll lose both the TV and the PVR. Just get a Freeview PVR such as the Humax HD version.
• This raises a good point.
  Is there any TV with a built in recorder, that records anything that comes into the TV set (including Sky, Freesat and Freeview)?
  If they can build flat screen sets with built in DVD players (I have one) surely they can build in a recorder with a hard disc.
  I seem to remember there being such sets in the past, but haven't seen any recently.
• The TV's with built in DVD players were invariably low priced and low quality supermarket badge jobs, usually small TV's intended for bedroom usage. None of the mainstream manufacturers made them IIRC.
  No one would want one that only recorded the channel being viewed, they'd still need twin (or triple) tuners.
• poppasmurf - there would be all sorts of mental licensing issues (just for starters is that Sky want to keep everything on their own platform) that mean this can't happen. I prefer having stuff separate as if something breaks or becomes out of date, you don't have to replace the whole lot. I treat my TV like a dumb screen to connect things to, which is probably why 'smart TVs' don't appeal.
• An all-in-one solution sounds great until something goes wrong. Popularity of TV's with built-in DVD players is very much on the wane, as this is invariably the first component to fail (and is usually a cheap Ј25 chassis DVD unit). I've never come across a quality brand with a quality player inbuilt, so expecting a DVR as an alternative would not be enthusiastically viewed by the manufacturers.
  A separate box, with the features YOU specify/want is by far the most popular route, as if this component fails, nothing else is affected.
• Alternatively, most TV's have the Freeview recording functionality built in, just not the storage. You have to connect a USB external hard drive or stick and you can record away.
• Modern tuners are tiny. You can buy a Freeview "dongle" that plugs into a Scart socket. And the latest ElGato EyeTV tuner is barely larger than a memory stick. You could easily get a 2.5" Hard Drive and a couple of tuner "sticks" into a modern TV - especially the larger ones. (I doubt the option will ever be offered for a small TV anyway, but never say never.)
• SCART is dead! It is an antiquated (and time-expired) interface, so these days you would be lookling for USB 2.0/3.0 and HDMI as a minimum.
• My 2011 Sony Bravia has a Freeview+ recording facility built in - you just need to connect an external Hard Disk drive to the USB socket and format the drive to work exclusively with the TV. Works with an externally powered drive but the disk noise is a pain. Have not tried a large pen drive yet but now have no need as I have a Youview box.
• Moneymaker - get your ruler out. An iMac is far fatter than lots of LED TVs. I would also point out that those little USB sticks you're talking about aren't complete tuners, they require the processing power of the computer they plug into.
• An iMac is actually thicker than most modern TVs, but we'll not dwell on that.
  I've got a TV with a FreeSat, Freeview, and analogue terrestrial tuner built in, and the TV after mine can record onto USB, so they can easily take that 'inside the box', but the same manufacturer probably makes boxes (even for Sky) that they'd like you to put under your TV instead.
  I genuinely believe that there would be licencing or technical restrictions with putting content from 2 different platforms onto 1 drive too.
• There's a number of PVR ready TVs. with USB recording. Seems to be mostly budget ranges that have this option. Hannspree, Furrion, Finlux etc
• i've been looking at the finlux 22" LED tv that has a PVR setting that records to a usb stick.
  https://www.finluxdirect.com/led-tvs/...invt/22f6020w/
  Do you think this means you can record one channel while watching another? or just record the channel you're watching?
  Been trying to find out
• TVs only have one tuner so can only record whatever channel you are watching.