TV with built in Freeview and recording

[TheBALDpuma]

I'm in the market for a new TV, and they all have built in Freeview these days. It would be nice though to do away with the youview box altogether and get a TV that can record too... Does anyone know one with this capability?

Other than that I am not after anything special. Just a LED, 4K smart TV from a decent brand. Without the recording you cash get a 43 inch Samsung for £315. Happy to pay more to get recording built in though

[juggsy]

This may or may not help, however I bought an LG TV last year but only realised recently that you can record if you plug in an external HDD, meaning I could get rid of my crappy humax box. So you may find other TVs which do similar.

[Sheepshanks]

I think they can pretty well all record by adding a HDD. Not sure how many tuners they have - if it's a single tuner you presumably won't be able to record one channel while watching another.

However, whereas the cheapy Toshiba we had, with Freeview guide, would record to a 32GB USB flash drive, the Sony Android with YouView as its user guide we've got now needs a minimum of 256GB. One thing we miss is that it can't do live pause which the Toshiba could.

In practice, over Christmas when there was a bunch of programmes wife wanted to record, I just plugged the BT YouView baox back in.

[Glosphil]

I have a LG TV that can be set to record to a HD or SD card plugged into the USB port. However it cannot be taken off the channel it is recording - so cannot view anything else (even an external input) when it is recording). As it has a single tuner only one channel can be recorded at the same time.

[TheBALDpuma]

Thanks guys. I'm aware of the usb storage, but I'm after the full record multiple channels, pause, rewind functionality you get with a recording box

[juggsy]

TheBALDpuma said:

Thanks guys. I'm aware of the usb storage, but I'm after the full record multiple channels, pause, rewind functionality you get with a recording box

Mine does all of the pause/rewind etc. with the plugged in HDD, except multiple channels. Looks like Samsung do this though, essentially you’ll need a TV with multiple tuners, eg https://www.simplyelectricals.co.uk/blog/samsung-q...

To be honest though I never use recording any more, I just watch everything on-demand