I've just bought one of these from Argos for Christmas. Any good?

You tell us. You bought it.

Point is, I haven't used it yet, it's for Christmas, duh!

Sorry to dampen your parade but I have one at the moment and can't wait to get rid of it

Did you just want to timeshift? Did you really want to write disks? Are you really looking for a twin tuner PVR..........

Rgds,
Scorp

Nice to see objective criticism...... would you like to be a bit more specific about the unit's shortcomings ? At least then the original poster might have some info on what to look for etc.