Re What they don't tell you

I too was recording on the unit straight out of the box, but when you have used the unit with the tutv card and then remove the card you can not use it to record, unless you can do some kind of reset,

I have done a master reset, menu > help > green button > red button.

I have reverted back to the old software and also looked on the engineers page, menu > help > 1397.

And still no joy. So if you can use the device with out subscription I am All ears.

Any advice would to great so I can use this plastic box to do the job I got it for.