I'll widen this thread.
Bought the Panasonic DMR-BW500 and installed it on the weekend all based on a recommendation and research by James at Camberwell. The unit was a straight swapover for the Strong 5400 box in terms of connections.
Performance is in a different league on all levels. I now have blue ray, Twin HDTV recording, CD, DVD and BR recording, pic and music management, it works in link rooms, it upscales and solves some of the problems of only being able to control 2 external boxes with the BV7-40 MK11. It's many boxes in one, simple to use..
All I need now is the software update to control it with the Beo4...
Very happy and many thanks to James again... If you are in the market for something similar have a look.
Beoaus.