djy,

According to the link you gave me pvruk, the new Humax has the EPG technology.......what that is I don't know but it seems to be an add-on to the previous model, I cannot see myself watching one programme and recording another at the same time but sod's law dictates otherwise, if fact it happened on Wednesday I wanted to watch Alan Titchmarsh and the evolution of the British Isles, on the other side was a prog about Mediums...both these things I would have liked to have taped but my Grundig has hit the skip, so no VCR anymore consequently I lost one of them and viewed the other.

This is what has given me the impetus to sort something out, your help has been a great to have, I can afford to wait a little longer for the right gear and you say that the Humax 9000T is around the corner so that could well be just the job,

thanks David.