cant record digi channells?

As you don't say what either of the boxes is and my crystal ball is in the menders, here is generic advice. There are only two ways to do this:

The DVD recorder has a built-in Freeview tuner.

The TV has a Freeview channels AND can OUTPUT them down from its SCART socket (unusual but now unknown) AND the DVD recorder can accept INPUT from its SCART socket.

t
April 2008