LG DVD recorder recording from Sky+?

[oldmanbm]

Bought a new 'simple' LG DVD Recorder and cannot get it to record from Sky+ The instructions are useless and I am not sure I have connected up the Scart leads right. I thought I saw a diagram somewhere on the net but can't find it now? Any ideas?

[eybic]

I didn't think you could record to another device from Sky+

[Mikey G]

I would have thought it would simply plug into the VCR scart port and just work no?

[eybic]

No unfortunately not, I questioned this with a sky engineer and he said you can't take stuff off of the hard drive which I guess also means you cant record from the box. There might be a way to record whilst you are watching the sky+ but I don't know how you'd go about this.

[Mikey G]

There is a facility in the planner that said 'backup' which I assume means to record to an external device via the outputs. I never tried but I cannot see why Sky would stop you from recording to another device. If you can output to a telly then there is no reason why you cannot record that output.

http://www.sky.com/helpcentre/tv/sky-plus/recordin...

That answers that

Edited by Mikey G on Saturday 7th April 13:24

[mondeoman]

Interesting!! So you can fill up your Sky+, copy to Bluray or straight to PC HDD.

Nice!

Works on Sky+HD too, so an easy way to fill up your film library with HD movies.

[grumpyscot]

I have my Sky+ with scart going from sky+ > DVD Recorder > TV. All I do is start "playing" the prog on Sky and record on DVD.

[audi321]

grumpyscot said:

I have my Sky+ with scart going from sky+ > DVD Recorder > TV. All I do is start "playing" the prog on Sky and record on DVD.

+1 Easy to do as there's 2 scart outputs on the Sky box. Come on guys, whoever's saying it can't be done earlier needs to stop posting or get some imagination!

[oldmanbm]

That's great folks and many thanks!!

[y2blade]

eybic said:

I didn't think you could record to another device from Sky+

you can.

I do, scart running from the sky+ to the DVDR.

[Magic919]

mondeoman said:

Interesting!! So you can fill up your Sky+, copy to Bluray or straight to PC HDD.

Nice!

Works on Sky+HD too, so an easy way to fill up your film library with HD movies.

Apart from the HD bit.

[mondeoman]

Magic919 said:

mondeoman said:

Interesting!! So you can fill up your Sky+, copy to Bluray or straight to PC HDD.

Nice!

Works on Sky+HD too, so an easy way to fill up your film library with HD movies.

Apart from the HD bit.

[danyeates]

mondeoman said:

Magic919 said:

mondeoman said:

Interesting!! So you can fill up your Sky+, copy to Bluray or straight to PC HDD.

Nice!

Works on Sky+HD too, so an easy way to fill up your film library with HD movies.

Apart from the HD bit.

Scart isn't HD anyway.