Hi Again Soneman,
Thanks for your explaination of RGB,
From what I can see when I have the Sky routed through the DVD Recorder it doesn't seem to have an effect on the picture, or not a noticeable one, its hard to tell though as I don't have the pictures side by side to draw any comparison ie: Sky straight to the TV, and Sky through the DVD Recorder, I have the Sky set to RGB rather than PAL, both settings are the same going through the recorder, though the sound does tend to be slightly quieter when I have the Sky going through the DVD Recorder.
I will try what you did and see what happens with the analogue picture quality.
I'm slightly cheesed off as I paid abit more for mine, £150 to be exact!

it is the one with the 250gb HDD though, so I guess that could be why.
Why do these companies put RGB Out on but no RGB in?
Many Thanks