Just a little update on our experience of life with this PVR.
On the whole the experience has been staggering - the way we watch TV has completely changed. We rarely watch programmes live anymore, preferring to watch the recordings (and being able to skip the adverts etc). We are also watching a lot of programmes we would never have watched because of the hassle of setting the Video Recorder or just missing that they were on in the schedules.
There have been two problems however:
1) There have been a number of crashes of the system, even after the software upgrade. However we have not had one for several weeks now, so maybe that glitch has gone.
2) I taped 'Bring Back the A-Team' and Tracy deleted it off of the Hard Drive, right in front of me as I went 'NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'. You might have guessed, I had not seen it yet and Channel 4 have not repeated it on E4 or More4. She is STILL in trouble over that one!
Overall I am very glad we bought it, I am definitely getting to see more Motorcycle racing this year thanks to it. We also have a growing number of films on the Hard Drive now - which I am trying to persuade Tracy to watch - classics like American Werewolf in London and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Perhaps they could be her penance for the A-Team.