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I'm also aware that very few TVs these days seem to have SCART sockets, which would mean being unable to connect up some old devices, not that they're used much anyway

I have a Panasonic Blu-ray player & recorder, with Freeview HD support, which is great for this. The Panasonic supports SCART inputs and will output them over the HDMI interface upscaled. It also allows recording content via the SCART inputs, has analogue RCA inputs for things like old-school camcorders and an SD card input.

All of this can be recorded to the internal HDD or burnt onto Blu-ray, which is rather useful.

I don’t know if Panasonic still sell them or not?