Hi mcbruja, you listed that your Philips recorder has component-in input, maybe a typo.
Let's assume that your Philips doesn't have the component input, then your best option would be to send the S-Video output along with an audio feed of your satellite box to the S-Video and audio inputs of you recorder.
No clue, I'm a cable user myself and I have a PVR box which I send my recordings that I want to keep to a dvd recorder in the same matter (S-Video) as I've described above.
I suspect that the signal going into the box is a proprietary rights type of signal from the satellite provider which is then converted in the box into an analog output in order for the signal to be readily accepted by analog-only equipement such as older TVs, VCRs etc. This signal would then be converted to a digital format by your recorder. Anyways those would be my thoughts on this but as I said, not sure at all.
Maybe someone with more savvy on this will respond.
I am also perplexed as to if I'm copying my programs in Digital or Analog? I have a Directv DVR and through a SV2000 (Funai)second one! I got both online at Walmart:First it was $50+ this year $80!I listen to Leo Laport the Tech Guy on Radio weekends out of LA,He says:"DVD recorders(Standalones),"Record in Analog?"What aout that? When I got a Digital Video Recorder and Burn a Copy to my DVD recorder(SV2000) ,to a Disc,is it in Digital?
My humble take on this is that a recorder will accept an analog feed, the encoder chip turns the info into a digital format to be burned.
When playing back the disc, the player's (or recorder's) decoder chip will take the digital info and turn it to analog (480i) to be fed to a TV.
If your TV can be set to accept progressive scan (sometimes called component) feed, you can set the player (or recorder) to output progressive scan and you'll get the low end of a digital signal(480p)through the component line out.
Once HDTV is well implanted, more hd/blue-ray players will be available and eventually also recorders that will record HD feeds and also hopefully upscale and record low end feeds.
