Recording DVDs from a Sky box?

[oblio]

Folks

Im not wishing to double post but could anypne help with this?

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...


Cheers

Edited by oblio on Thursday 22 May 20:37

[Muntu]

oblio said:

Folks

Im not wishing to double post but could anypne help with this?

http://www.cirencester.ac.uk/exams/rooming/2014-05...

Cheers

Pardon?

[MissChief]

Muntu said:

oblio said:

Folks

Im not wishing to double post but could anypne help with this?

http://www.cirencester.ac.uk/exams/rooming/2014-05...

Cheers

Pardon?

I agree with my esteemed PH member. Pardon?

Yes it is possible to copy from a Sky box onto recordable DVD by running a SCART lead from the box to the SCART in on the DVD recorder. Change the input on the DVD recorder, hit play on Sky box and record on DVD Recorder.

[mat13]

Please tell me your not a ciren student?

(Harper Adams true blue over here)

[oblio]

Apologies but I dont understand the "pardon" references

No Im not a ciren student nor do I know what Harper Adams is (although I do now as Iv Googled it)

I only want to capture programmes in a format that I can use without a Sky box. I do not own a Sky box nor a device upon which to capture the programmes but I do have colleagues who have Sky boxes and am looking for a way of making it easy for them to do this (i.e. so I can get them to do this).

That's all.

As you will have guessed I am not at all techie so was looking to see if there was a way to do it that was relatively painless and cheap.

Thanks

[MissChief]

oblio said:

Apologies but I dont understand the "pardon" references

No Im not a ciren student nor do I know what Harper Adams is (although I do now as Iv Googled it)

I only want to capture programmes in a format that I can use without a Sky box. I do not own a Sky box nor a device upon which to capture the programmes but I do have colleagues who have Sky boxes and am looking for a way of making it easy for them to do this (i.e. so I can get them to do this).

That's all.

As you will have guessed I am not at all techie so was looking to see if there was a way to do it that was relatively painless and cheap.

Thanks

Have you actually looked at what you linked? It has nothing whatsoever to do with recording from a sky box.

[oblio]

MissChief said:

Have you actually looked at what you linked? It has nothing whatsoever to do with recording from a sky box.

Whoops

Now I get it

Please excuse me...I think I did say I wasnt techie

Id better delete that (can you?)..iv changed it now

Cheers

Edited by oblio on Thursday 22 May 20:38

[belleair302]

You connect a DVD recorder onto a SKY + box, tune in the DVD recorder to the correct channel and then just record whatever you require from either real time programming or what is contained on the Sky + hard drive. Loads of people do this every day.

[Bullett]

Can we summarise?
You want to take recordings other people have made and copy them to DVD so you can watch them?

The only way to do this is to use the method proposed. Seeing as this is legally dubious why don't you just download what you want directly? Or get a sky subscription and pay for your content?

[keeling54]

you could try this but it's a bit of a faff.

http://www.ph-mb.com/products/expvr/about

you would need to take the HD out of your sky box and copy the files you want onto a computer.

There was a free version but I can't find the link at the moment.

EDIT: Found it http://www.skycopyplus.co.uk/

Edited by keeling54 on Sunday 25th May 19:43

[MissChief]

keeling54 said:

you could try this but it's a bit of a faff.

http://www.ph-mb.com/products/expvr/about

you would need to take the HD out of your sky box and copy the files you want onto a computer.

There was a free version but I can't find the link at the moment.

EDIT: Found it http://www.skycopyplus.co.uk/

Edited by keeling54 on Sunday 25th May 19:43

This works for copying from one Sky box to another (as long as you remove both hard disks) or if you get a new box and want to transfer recordings from the old box to the new box but the recordings are still encrypted and require decryption before playback. The files are not viewable on a PC as an AVI or MPG file for example.