I am just of the phone to an NTL customer service rep who told me it was impossible to record from digital and watch a different digital channel at the same time. A little dickie bird, on the other hand, has told me that if I get another NTL box (which they will insist on installing in the other room) I can hook this up to the original NTL box, thus splitting the digital signal and allowing me to do what I want to do. I read here yesterday they have a package with 50 channels for eur5 per month(which they dont advertise). If I could get the installation for eur25 and only pay an extra eur5 a month for the second box I would go for it.