Most painless way to back-up Sky + recorded content?

[16610LV]

I'm not very techie, so please would someone explain how I can save stuff already recorded on Sky +, to free up disk space? For best results would I have to copy to a DVD recorder?

Wife's on holiday and I need to record a load of American Idol!

Thanks

Jason

[ajg31]

as far as i know, you can't, it is all sky encrypted. it may be posible to use another decoder box like a dreambox, and copy from there, but not sure.

[ThePassenger]

Assuming you wire the DVD-Recorder/Computer/Whatever up to the Sky+ box with a SCART it should work. Tell the Sky+ box to play, tell the recover to record... should be laughing (hopefully).

But no, their is no direct way to strip stuff off a Sky+ box easily (like over a LAN) so always going to be the arse about face routine I'm affraid.

[16610LV]

Thanks! Think I'll buy a cheap DVD recorder and get on with it!