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Chapter 2
Watching TV
Your PVR incorporates twin digital television tuners, allowing you to pick up more channels than an older analogue televi- sion set, together with some radio stations that are also broad- cast on the digital TV service. In this chapter, we’ll explain the basics of how you watch TV or listen to the radio with you PVR, and start to explore a few of the new features that it of- fers.
Why twin tuners?
With an analogue television and a video recorder, there was a tuner in each device, so you could watch one programme on your TV and record another on your video. By having twin tuners, the TF 5800 PVR allows you to do the same for digital television, unlike single tuner ‘digiboxes,’ where you can only record the channel that the box is displaying.
To start watching TV through your PVR, turn on your televi- sion set, and then press the Power button on the remote, or the Standby button on the front of the PVR.
Some televisions will automatically switch to the correct con- nector when the PVR is turned on; on others, you may need to