"...and Grandad, did the Esso sign really mean Happy Motoring? Were there really more writing miles per Tallon - and why were Consulate cigarettes as cool as a mountain stream? Did you slap it on all over, as Henry Cooper (who was he, Grandad?) told you to with Brut?"
Not sure about those multi-scart boxes - are all the inputs and outputs in parallel or do you have to make manual or remote selections? Are they all fully-wired and RGB compatible? Personally I'd prefer to keep it simple - although wiring together 2 VCRs, a DVD player and a DVD recorder and a Freeview receiver is going to be......interesting, to say the least! I'd wire up the DVD recorder, the S-VHS VCR and the Freeview together - and perhaps find a new home for the old DVD player and the non-VHS recorder?