That is interesting news, Nigel.
If european models have outputs, mine is chinese for the USA market.
No way to find its service manual to check at which nodes I could tap the signals
Visited several TV stores to check myself which to buy and called to a bunch more. Some had no clue on what I was asking, others said 'yes, all have them' to later retract in embarrassment when I asked to visually confirm. Some salespersons thought they knew it all about televisions...
Found zero with any kind of video outputs, 'high end' or not.
Already tapped composite video output from my TV internal tuner, works great, I can record, but only on NTSC channels.
Edited. added: Checked a UK site for TVs. Picked one random, seems to me there is no such video out:
**broken link removed** (click on 'specs')
Not even SCART shown. And if it was implemented, such would be for analog signals only... I think.