Freesat, the product seen as liberating Sat reception by SKY haters, has 
some wondeful tricks up it's sleave. Broadcasters will be able to limit 
component output to SD just by sending a flag in the stream, and also limit 
scart output to composite at the same time, both aimed at lowering the 
quality of external recordings. I gave up recording using composite years 
ago, it's crap. Welcome to the Land of the Free "Sat".