Tying in with another thread, another option is Freeview Plus. When it works at all, it just works. 
If I may be permitted a slight digression on DVDs … if the government actually looked after our interests, this whole region thing would have been banned at the outset. Not only is it anti-free trade and anti-competitive but it clearly doesn’t serve the interests of consumers, which nicely ties in with the thread " Starting to understand why people pirate".
