Malc
It's a 55" Panasonic set. The instructions don't tell you how to switch the set off from Standby and I can't find any manual On/Off switch except the one on the mains socket. Strange, as our little 19" Panasonic in the kitchen has an On/Off switch right in the middle of the top edge. It's these inscrutable...Welsh??
M-F
1982 film jokes? That one went straight over the top, so please feel free to show me up as being thick again!
I-S
Freeview is built in, but that message does appear regularly. With the HDD/DVD/VHS recorder it appears every single time you turn the damned thing on (and even when you've just finished updating it!), but if you ignore it all the time then there comes a time when you can't set a program to record until you've updated the channels etc.
The lunatics electronics really are taking over the asylum.
DM