Bought one of these machines 2yrs ago and it has served me well (certainly in comparrison to the new DVR's). Simple to use, easy menus to follow. Records one channel at a time but you can watch another (I think a lot of the problems with the more modern machines is when they try and record two chanels). Only a couple of minor snags with it:

1. The in built volume control ceased working about 3 months in (never used it anyway, change the volume on the TV.
2. When rewinding / forwarding at 2x speed the audio speeds up as well (though this can be quite amusing).
3. Lost the BBC chanels during the first phase of the digital switchover (but thats just because they moved the channels up a frequency band. The 2nd phase should move them back down, I hope).

Just wish Sharp were still producing the TU-R160H!
K.