I used to use the Kaiser baas tv stick back in the day which I think has since been discontinued. There was a good program which came with it called Total media (by ArcSoft) which let me schedule recordings and modify recording times.
These days I just use VLC but that’s because I now use a iMAC.
Obviously you start with a tuner - either card, USB or network device. It then depends what sort of recording you want where you go from there. For unattended, timed recording, you can often rely on the software supplied with the tuner. If you don’t need that, you can use VLC or other similar software.
I hooked up a single tv tuner usb eyetv diversity and recorded a couple nine shows. I was thinking about getting a dual tuner but because I will only being only just recording Neighbours during the week I don’t think I could justify the expense.
Anyone have any experience with a feature like this diversity tuning or have any insight? Dual TV tune with diversity tuning.
I had a car radio (posted about a couple of times) that had diversity tuning. It would swap between two antennas for the one with the best signal (you needed to install a windscreen antenna in addition to the standard one).
From an Aussie living in Canada. Low annual fee for recording.
You might need a reasonable video card to support the graphics though.
Finally found the issue - brought the one not compatible with my laptop 
I still use older Leadtek WinFast PCI and PCIe based capture cards.
Not that I would recommend them exactly, it’s just what I have always used. There might be something newer and better out there. I’m interested to know how others have their set ups.
Wouldn’t it be much easier and cheaper to pack a small box of your choice e.g. Apple TV, Fetch Mighty and plug that into the TV at where you’re staying?
We often take the Chromecast or Firestick with us places now when we go away, got a Telstra 4G modem that has heaps of data and it joins the wifi and then we have all our apps and everything already signed in and the kids can get their shows or YouTube videos quickly and easily.
The YT video calls it a “briefcase” whereas it was referred to in Sunrise as a “suitcase”. The second-biggest brief case I’ve ever seen 
At $2,000, it’s cheaper than some phones.
More of a question relating to the analogue TV era and TVs with push button/electronic tuning
What channel numbers did you assign to each channel back then? (particularly with SBS and/or aggregation in regional areas).
As an example, in Newcastle (in my household as a teenager growing up) we used
1 - SBS
2 - Prime
3 - NBN
4 - NRTV (before it became Ten)
5 - ABC
(7, 9 and 10 were used for the Sydney TV channels, though reception was not usually very good where we lived then).
With actual TVs as opposed to TV tuners, like this thread is for? I think I remember my childhood TV assignment in Wollongong in the 90s:
I’m not 100% confident in these assignments, but I do remember having a couple of pairs of duplicates. I was too young to ask why that was. Also, we were up on a hill, so our reception of Sydney was fairly good despite being further south.
I was also in Wollongong in the 90s. When we upgraded TVs, this is the channel assignment I remember:
1 - VCR channel
2 - ABC
3 - SBS
4 - WIN
5 - ABC
7 - Prime
9 - WIN
10 - Ten SC
We lost our VHF reception when our old TV broke. Well, I suppose we technically always had it, but we arranged for a UHF aerial to be installed with the new TV and my parents arranged to have the old aerial disconnected at the same time. It sat up there and fell off piece by piece until we got it fully removed ~15 years later.
The standard at home (Albury, early-mid '00s) was:
The logic behind 1 and 4 being that they were the traditional allocations for the ABC and AMV-4, with 2 and 3 used to infill SCN/Ten and Vic/WIN post-aggregation. SBS got number 5 by virtue of being the last station in the area to begin transmission in 1996.
Thanks! I note VHF and UHF for both Prime and ANC… was One Tree Hill your preferred/main site for reception?
It was, we had much better line of sight to One Tree Hill vs Mt Baranduda due to a hill directly behind us in that direction (VHF signals got in fine but UHF was a bit trickier).
Our TVs had the following in North Tas:
1 or 38 for the VCR
3 ABC (ABNT3)
6 TasTV after 1994 and then WIN
9 TNT9 for Southern Cross
SBS I can’t remember what number we gave it.
28? 0?
90s in Sydney:
0: SBS
1/5: Ten
2/6: ABC
3/7: Seven
4/9: Nine
8: C31
All single-digit numbers so that the channels could be accessed with just one press of the remote buttons.
VCR was connected via composite cables, so that was on AV1.
