Yeah I was looking at the ones in Tesco's for about £30.... Seem pretty basic, no built in hard disks (again not too fussed about that as such, I agree it would be extremely useful, like pause TV and no messing about with tapes, but I don't watch TV that often, it's mainly my old dear and trying to explain to her how to use it would be about the same as teaching her to fit a Zetec turbo conversion ). Only thing I thought would be usefull would be being able to record one digital channel and watch another - I mean how annoying would it e if video's would only let you record the channel your watching?

From looking at them, most have RF loop throughs, like VCR's, allowing you to record a digital channel, and watch an analoge channel like BBC1.... But it means you can't watch say ITV3 and record E4.....

What I might do tho is just get a cheapie one, or get one cheap off ebay and use it as a tester - plug it in downstairs to see how well it works and test the signal etc, and then try it in my room (which probably won't work as I only have an indoor arial) and if it works hunt out a better one if poss......

Might go down tesco again....