Thanks Jethro - worked a treat. Anyone with a Grundig GDT2000 Set Top Box ( not compatible according to Pioneer )
- just pretend your box is a Thompson, and it finds the code within seconds.

If the Pioneer DVR530 gets its information from ITV terrestrial, what will happen when analogue is switched off? Presumably there is no passthrough of teletext from Freeview boxes, so where will it get a signal from?

Gemstar have confirmed to me that they are planning a 'DTT service' to start sometime this year. I doubt it will work via teletext as they said the service would be 'greatly enriched'. I assume that this means they will be transmitting Guide Plus data over the air somehow.

Sounds like a new system to me so I doubt If it would work on current boxes.

If 'Guide Plus' depends on an analogue signal then what happens when analogue goes off?
I did read, I think, somewhere that 'guide plus' is also available via Eurosport. If that is the case why are people using the analogue signal - do some of the recorders only work with analogue??

The analogue signal isn't getting switched off for another six years where I live, so I will be using it until then. There is an analogue tuner built in so why not use it, rather than having to switch the external digi box to Eurosport ?

By the time the analogue signal goes, I'll probably have a PVR on cable anyway and the Pioneer will just be used for archiving to DVD.

I have just taken delivery of this PVR. When I looked in the manual to check the instructions on connecting up my PVR, TV and STB Box I was surprised to find that the connection diagrams show only one SCART socket on the TV and STB. whereas I have two on both. (An update required here, surely.)

I had decided to connect them in the way I've already got, simply substituting my VCR for the PVR, viz.

SCART Lead 1 STB TV to TV AV2
SCART Lead 2 STB AUX to PVR AV2
SCART Lead 3 PVR AV1 to TV AV1

The only slight worry I have is the note alongside the connection diagram in the manual "Do not connect the recorder through your VCR, satellite receiver or cable box." Do I ignore this, as my supplier advises?

Any help would be much appreciated. In case it's relevant my STB is a Sagem ITD 62.