Is there such a thing?
I have a Freeview box with a hard-drive recorder, similar to SkyPlus, but it only records things from Freeview.
I have a satellite receiver set on 19.2 degrees E (Digtial Plus, Canal Digitaal etc) and I'd like to know if it would be possible to feed the output into a hard-drive recorder with, say, 20 hours capacity.
Otherwise, do they still make E-300 VHS tapes?

(I like to set my video record 5 hours at a time of Latin American soccer in the middle of the night and my current E-300s are wearing out.

perhaps move this into the personal video recorders forum, which I never noticed before?
And I may have found the answer reading about the Sony RDR-HXD870?

The TiVo will record anything from its Scart input, if you can still find them around. I mainly use mine now for recording batches of programmes from Sky+ when that gets full up.

Yes, that's one example - but basically most HDD/DVD recorders will accept an analogue input - most HDD only are PVR's, and simply record the incoming digital signal directly.

There are no digital TV recorders that can record from an external input.

What you're after is a digital video recorder, such as a DVD recorder with built-in hard disk. I have a Pioneer DVR-630HS. A model with the Guide+ system may also be able to control your external receiver itself via an infra-red dongle that you attach to the front of the receiver. You set a timer recodring with the channel number, and it changes the channel itself automatically.

Or replace your satellite receiver with a hard disk model, like your Freeview box.