As you will discover from between the solutions it relies upon the type you connect them yet in theory definite. I made a distinctive selection: i offered a stressful rigidity recorder with a freeview tuner geared up-in. no choose for a separate freeview field + distant. Plus it certainly has 2 tuners so i will checklist 2 courses, or checklist one software and watch yet another and pause it, rewind nonetheless to the stay software etc... Mine is a Humax yet i think of there are others on the marketplace. I paid under 2 hundred pounds. nevertheless choose a VCR to play back older tapes, and a CD/DVD participant (no choose for a recorder) and right here back i got here across a blended unit that works properly. My previous CD participant had only packed up so as that became an basic 3-in-a million selection. Sony a hundred and fifty pounds one 12 months in the past. so as that's 2 bins plus the television, 'only' 3 remotes (yet I regularly use the HDD unit's) and it does all i %. And while i purchase an liquid crystal demonstrate demonstrate (expenditures are coming down so i will try this quickly), I only plug it in and that's it. perhaps this could artwork for you too. reliable luck.