DVD recording vs freeview confusion

Having a real hotch pot of stuff and formats I'm kind of thinking best to record TV and cart it around the house or play elsewhere will be a DVD recorder.

I have one TV with built in freeview and another with a freeview box separate. Its confusing me how a DVD recorder will work with these?

This isnt going to work like an old fashioned tuned in video is it? Am I going to have the TV or freeview box outoutting the channel I want to record while recording it? The recorder wont be able to 'choose' which channel to record unless the freeview box is set to it, will it?

Do I need a recorder with built in freeview then?

I also have a freview HD recorder.

Confused.....

There's usually a Scart socket on the freeview box called video/dvd, just connect that to you DVD recorder. To record you need to set the freeview box to the channel you want and the DVD recorder onto it's AV input, it's probably got several, AV1/AV2/Front panel AV etc. It usually has the input name printed by the scart socket on the DVD or the manual will tell you.

I use a DVD recorder with a Freeview tuner built into it, it works the same as the old VCR but you can set the timer etc using freeview channels. If you want to watch a differrent chanel you just set your telly to another channel/input. You can get clever freeview boxes with built in hard drive and dvd recorder with twin tuners but these can cost a tad more.