[bxd]

Hi,

I was rather making the point that people don't actually understand the difference between a PVR and a DVD-recorder. It's not a simple matter of adding another tuner ... you'd need a second encoder section as well.

Many people wouldn't understand how to operate such a device properly, so let's not overcomplicate things.

From a manufacturers point of view, it's probably not expensive to include a second tuner in a PVR. If you've only got an analog tv then a twin tuner PVR makes perfect sense as you can record one and watch another freeview channels at the same time. That 'duplicates' what you could do with your old vcr and gives you 'digital' tv on your old telly.

If you want to do anything else (play dvds/ record things from your pvr) then you need another device. If you're looking to record 3 or more things at the same time, then you're in the same (geeky) boat as the rest of us and you probably wouldn't be stuck with a single scart crt tv anyway.

Brian