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We have a number of so called “Smart” devices, each one is different in what it will do, but it seems once a USB hard drive is plugged in they can both record and play back TV, movies, etc.
The 43/134M-GB-11B-FEGUX-UK has a red record button on the remote, and the user guide lists the button as “Record – Access the USB record function.” There is a reference to using a stick or Hard drive over 32GB and formatting to FAT32, I don’t have a small stick to hand so not tested, to record is it simply a case of getting a small stick rather than using a 1TB hard drive, or is the TV simply not able to record.
It plays back many pre-recorded films and TV programs. Odd some of the pre-recorded films we can’t view with set top box (An Ice Weasel) work on the TV, and some the set top box will play the TV will not.
Since it only cost £150 at Tesco black Friday deal, I am not that worried about recording, however the Freeview program guide seems so much better than the IceWeasel set top box it would be an advantage to use the TV to record with, it replaces a LG TV 32” which had a built in hard drive without any USB sockets.
The IceWeasel is both Freeview and Free to air satellite and it allows one to move, delete, and hide programs and is also HD, but it does not seem to work very well on the internet, and the program guide is very slow, often you have to select a program before the guide works.
I am now living with my 91 year old mother and the larger TV made sense, but I was not very good at getting TV and Internet links set up around the house. So although we have Sky+ in one room, and an old Sky box in another room, we don’t have the ability to watch in all rooms, so a transportable recording system may be a good move.
The 43/134M-GB-11B-FEGUX-UK has a red record button on the remote, and the user guide lists the button as “Record – Access the USB record function.” There is a reference to using a stick or Hard drive over 32GB and formatting to FAT32, I don’t have a small stick to hand so not tested, to record is it simply a case of getting a small stick rather than using a 1TB hard drive, or is the TV simply not able to record.
It plays back many pre-recorded films and TV programs. Odd some of the pre-recorded films we can’t view with set top box (An Ice Weasel) work on the TV, and some the set top box will play the TV will not.
Since it only cost £150 at Tesco black Friday deal, I am not that worried about recording, however the Freeview program guide seems so much better than the IceWeasel set top box it would be an advantage to use the TV to record with, it replaces a LG TV 32” which had a built in hard drive without any USB sockets.
The IceWeasel is both Freeview and Free to air satellite and it allows one to move, delete, and hide programs and is also HD, but it does not seem to work very well on the internet, and the program guide is very slow, often you have to select a program before the guide works.
I am now living with my 91 year old mother and the larger TV made sense, but I was not very good at getting TV and Internet links set up around the house. So although we have Sky+ in one room, and an old Sky box in another room, we don’t have the ability to watch in all rooms, so a transportable recording system may be a good move.