[Geofbob]

It's always very annoying when manufacturers & suppliers don't market goods as we personally want them, but according to their own assessment of the market.* Your dad's personal wishes seem to be (a) to archive programmes etc to DVD; and (b) to retain his analogue-only, one Scart TV.

Manufacturers/suppliers probably estimate that he is a rare breed, and most people will have switched to Freeview TVs (with 2 Scarts) by the time analogue is switched off, and those who haven't will probably NOT be interested in recording to DVDs, and will be content with Freeview/Freesat recorders with 2 tuners - or won't want to record at all, and will make do with a Freeview/sat box.

One way or another, your dad will probably have to compromise, either on the archiving issue (and get a PVR) or on retaining his CRT (and get a Freeview TV & a HDD/DVD recorder with digital tuner).

*Eg I would very much like to buy white Scart leads, but they seem to be as rare as hen's teeth!