Thanks Les

I wish I had known that when I ordered my DMR 85EX. (Available in July)

Now all I gotta do is bolt a terestial digital high gain aerial to the side of my house about 30-40 feet above the apex. And hope that ch68 Ridge Hill / Woolhope (home of Roger Whittaker BTW) is not only pointing towards Stroud but Ch 5 is not killed by the side lobes.

Satellites do not suffer from intervening tumullii (invisible behind the railway embankment). Unless they were iron age alien celts!

No! the answer is a remote control with timers. And use most of the timers to switch on the same channel just in case Sky want to tell me something I already know and tell me I can connect to the telephone.

Les - 250 Gbyte HDD, DVD recorder, Dig & Analogue tuner, SD card, IEEE 1394 ............ er - enough PVR for you?
Red is a bit low in the priority for things wot stay at home.