Record to dvd recorder while watching another channel.
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I don't think you'll be able to. Sounds like you'll have to put it into dual-mode, connect the RCA outputs from TV2 to the DVD recorder, start the playback/record process, and then switch over to TV1
I've often wondered this myself. As far as I can tell, the 622/722 doesn't make this very easy, because:
-You have to be in dual mode to record something to DVD, while watching something else.
-When you are in dual mode, the recordings are completely separate--what's recorded for one TV can't be seen by the other TV
-I remember seeing a post some months ago that switching between single & dual mode was problematic--not all shows would necessarily be available for both TVs after the switch.
Is that correct, or am I missing something? Or perhaps the firmware changed, and now it's different? I would appreciate someone clarifying this.
Precisely because you're set up in single mode, you CANNOT accomplish this. Single mode reduces you to a single output program regardless of what TV you're looking at.
There are a couple of ways around this:
1. Go to dual mode. This is far and away the easiest and you can go back to Single mode when you actually need it.
2. "Dub" it manually.
Hogwash! You can view any event on the hard drive with either TV regardless of which "TV" it was recorded on. It has always been this way.
The picture quality of the single mode works better for dvd recordings over tuner 2. With dual mode the picture is squished or letterboxed. If you want the screen filled completely and so the people look right in proportion, I find the single mode works best over tuner 2 for recordings to a dvd recorder.
This one little thread has more misinformation than the whole rest of the forum. TV1 and TV2 are both HDTVs. TV2 is connected via the composite connectors. We can watch anything we recorded from TV1 (using the TV2 tuner) from either TV and nothing is squashed or letterboxed. TV2 shows the HDTV channels or the recordings in full wide-screen, but in 480i instead of 720p. The second TV may upscale, but the picture looks good with the same aspect as TV1, just softer than TV1.
IF I use tv 2 while in DUAL mode with the receiver in 16 x9 on the hd resolution, I get a picture with either letterboxing or stretched and the people look short ,squat and fat if I am watching an hd show. I just checked again and this hasn't changed on the dvd recorder or to my second tv in the computer room.
IF I use tv2 while in SINGLE mode, I get a full picture that is in proportion and the recordings look great. I keep my 722 hooked to my upconverting dvd player on tv 2 and it makes wonderful full screen dvd recordings that are very crisp and sharp on any hd recording I make.
This isn't misinformation, this is fact. I've been making dvd recordings in SINGLE mode for over a year now using my 722 with an Rca dvd upconverting dvd recorder.
Try playing with either the TVs aspect button, or with the similar button on the Dish TV2 remote (lower left, if I remember). My setup is always in DUAL mode. SD does show people as short/fat, but HD is as it should be on TV2, just 480i but full widescreen. I haven't tried recording from my TV2 connection yet (just OTA), but may install my composite/s-video distributor so I can break out my TV2 composite connection concurrently to the TV and recorder, just in case there is something I'd like to record and have it portable (as opposed to the fixed 622 DVR). I have a Panasonic up-converting DVD recorder with tuner that supports dual-layer DVD-RAM, so I can get 8 one hour shows on it.
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