PVR standby

Hi there,

I'm thinking of finally moving into the 21st century and replacing my
VCR with a PVR, such as one of these:

http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=HITA-HDR080&SID=87658f9fbade57e9449c2e0a9078de69

However, I have a couple of questions. I've already tried these on the
Richer Sounds people, who replied to my Email but clearly did not know
the answers. I'd appreciate general answers, even if people here don't
have direct experience of the specific box above.

1. I gather these devices update the schedules at night. However, I
prefer to switch off unused devices at night to save power (and,
nominally, the planet). Will the device know to update once I give it
power again, even if it's not the middle of the night? Or can I
explicitly tell it to update?

2. I usually switch off my TV/DVD player and so on by just switching
the whole lot off at the wall. If I do this to a PVR, will it do nasty
things to the hard-drive and so on?

3. I've seen some complaints that PVRs can be noisy with processor
fans and disk spinning. Am I going to notice this? Does anybody know
how noisy the Hitachi thing above is?

Thanks in advance for any insight,

Peter

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