LG HRT403DA

PVR works well ; Multi-format support ; External recording

DVD pictures average ; No dual Freeview recording ; Manual and menu translations

It's probably not the best Freeview DVD/HDD recorder you can buy or the best home cinema sound system but this package remains pretty good value all round, though the lack of dual Freeview recording to hard disc is disappointing.

Functions galore ; good tuner and recording ; decent DVD picture ; 1080p upscaling

Thin, hard sound ; loose sub ; poor usability

While we admire LG for trying to squeeze in a world of features, we don’t think this system has quite got the quality we'd expect