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Originally Posted by Martin
You would need another box to record on the video if you were watching another! Personally Sky+ is probably the way forward now!!
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Sky+ is only the way forward if you want to pay a subscription for the privilege of videoing your favourite programmes and don't mind being unable to pop your recordings in a box for long-term safekeeping, as you can with a trusty VHS videotape (my mum still has most of Live Aid on tape!).
If you want to continue home taping, then you need to buy a freeview decoder for your video recorder. However as the digital terrestrial market matures, recorders (probably DVD rather than VHS based) with integrated digital reception are bound to appear. I believe the reason we don't already have them is that the UK has been leading Europe in the uptake of digital terrestrial, and we alone are not a large enough market for the likes of Sony and JVC to bother manufacturing them.