[Big Daddy]

have successfully set my DM 800 up and things seem to be working OK , I am now starting to venture into Storing more channels into favourites which again seem to be OK, the sticky ones are as follows:

a)
On the DM 800 can you find all sports channels, I ask this because on the Humax 5400z this had a facility to include this which was very usefull. The DM 800 box came with a number of favourite but did not include sports

b)
On record mode it does not appear to let you search for a programme "say " 2,3 or more days in advance , the same day seems to be OK, I am looking at the recording mode similar to the SKY PLUS box which allows all of this in the most simple way, are there any short cuts in the DM

All help will be appreciated