I already have a PVR with freeview and it won't work with the Virgin cable box. We can't get a strong enough aerial signal where we've just moved to so in order to get all the channels we had to move to cable/sky. I contacted the manufacturer of the PVR who confirmed it would not work with the Virgin box - bit of a pisser really as it was only a couple of months old
Wait till one of the German cheapy chains has an offer soon, they usually don't have Freeview. Otherwise get one with Freeview that has a "SCART encoder", you can hook a Sky/Virgin box up to these just like a VCR. Getting harder to find but most JVC ones do.
Failing that, import one from Ireland - nobody uses DTT ("Freeview") here except a tiny few so all hard drive recorders sold here have analogue tuners still.
1GB internal memory and micro SD card compatible up to 16GB, features up to 2465 hours of "on board" record time. Over 7 times more storage as other models, due to exclusive compression technology.