Mike, I get the selected deafness one but it;s usually for different reasons. I can for example be over absorbed at rowing with people on Mudcat. Mother might come in and ask say "could you light the fire". I'll later get reminded of what I haven't done. It's not a hearing issue but I'm pretty good at not really listening and giving the yes or no response to please.

Richard, I don't think any of us are big tv viewers but we have a fairly capable recording set up on mythtv. We use an hdhomerun and a TBS card. Homerun is twin channel and TBS is quad but only two are used for recording here. Some would depend on how the multiplexs split but that gives a minimum of 4 channels. If everything fell together, eg. BBC 1 and 2 are on the same multiplex, we could have 8 simultaneous recordings and I just accept myths default of 2 recordings per tuner.