As I have documented in another thread, I am now able to get good HD UHF reception in a fairly marginal area. Since achieving that breakthrough, I have been playing with the PVR function of my bargain non-approved STB. I have an old IDE enclosure with an even older drive I am using for test purposes. It works pretty well for standard definition broadcasts and also for "high definition" with two-channel audio. Last night though I recorded Indianna Jones on TV3 in full 5.1 surround sound and got a terrible result, with constant drop-outs, pixillation and desynchronisation throughout the entire recording. This was not due to a reception problem as I watched parts of the film while recording and everything looked fine. The only conclusion I can draw is that the full high definition video plus 5.1 audio channels is overwhelming the USB port or the hard drive with too much data. Can anyone tell me more about this kind of problem, and whether upgrading the drive alone might fix it? I was thinking maybe a flash drive could handle a higher data rate but my Orton box can only cope with Fat32 and is very fussy about which flash drive it will work with.