How much do you record on Sky Plus?

[vixen1700]

After not having or using a video recorder in years, after only a few months of having Sky + I'm amazed at how much stuff I've recorded and quite a few bits I haven't just deleted after watching.

Music stuff I've kept like great Sky Arts live stuff by the Stones, The Who, Zappa, Punk documentaries and the like. Then Joe 90s and '70s Tales of the Unexpecteds (I'm addicted to those)

Plus all the films on SyFy & horror, which are very much hit or miss, then the odd Film4 flick.

Not to mention my daily South Park fixes. Plus shedloads of stuff like Wheeler Dealers & tank/fighter stuff.

So how much do you use the record facility?

[obob]

On series link are Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Celebrity Juice, Harry Hill, MOTD and MOTD2. Then I've got a few documentaries and several movies I am yet to watch.

[slipstream 1985]

world at war, south parks, f1 if im at work. good backlog of films. best invention ever

[Truckosaurus]

The trick is never to record shows that are on heavy repeat every day eg. South Park, 2.5 Men, MASH etc and just watch them as they coincide with you being sat on the sofa.

I also have a rule that if 4 episodes of a single series build up then I'm obviously not interested in watching it and it gets binned and series link cancelled.

I hardly ever watch anything live, even if it's on a 15min delay so I can fast forward most of the adverts.

I get nervous if I get below 50% free too.

[RobFerrari]

I record an awful lot actually. Its rare that I sit down and watch things live, usually only sport to be honest. I use the search function to find shows that are on that week to record, and then have a selection of regulars on season record, Blue Bloods for example. Watch things, fast forward through the adverts and then delete. Sky + definitely revolutionised the way I watch television.

[Lordbenny]

Series link only works 50% of the time for me!

[Jasandjules]

Have a humax not a skyplus but we record a lot then just watch it when we want - also quite often record shows rather than watch them live so we can fast forward through the adverts.

[SpeedBash]

Similar to others, I now record stuff even if I'm in a position to watch them at the time of broadcast so that I can fast forward the adverts.

As you have noticed, its very easy for th box to become a library of stuff to watch and I'm on 10% free space which I have to juggle daily to ensure I can record new programmes.

I really must have a spring clean.

[zapbrannigan]

Nearly every TV programme I watch is on the Planner nowadays; no adverts

I also make sure I do a Planner Rebuild every couple of weeks or so.

[thetapeworm]

Much less than I used to due to the move to HD, I'm constantly running out of space these days.

[CivicMan]

Record Countdown every day and just fast forward the bits with contestants, Jeff doodah and dictionary corner.

[monthefish]

Lordbenny said:

Series link only works 50% of the time for me!

"Series link not available at this time"?



Sky's official line was that I was the only person this was happening to (but have since found that at least 50% of people I know with Sky have/had this problem too).
B'stards.

Fortunately they seem to have now fixed this on the HD boxes.

[monthefish]

thetapeworm said:

Much less than I used to due to the move to HD, I'm constantly running out of space these days.

Helps if you don't record programmes in HD that don't really need it.

[7 Sevens]

The only thing we watch live now is sport or news. Everything series/show is on Series Link so get to choose when we watch it.

Just waiting for my new HD box to replace the older Sky + one. :-)

[chibbard]

We record as much as possible in order to skip through the adverts/other toot. Even the kids constantly series link their stuff too !!!!

[jesta1865]

Truckosaurus said:

I also have a rule that if 4 episodes of a single series build up then I'm obviously not interested in watching it and it gets binned and series link cancelled.

I get nervous if I get below 50% free too.

i am the opposite, i am happy having a big chunk of a series recorded, i have being human all lined up for the easter break all 8 episodes

and as i currently have 7% left, best you not pop round fella you may feint

[jesta1865]

zapbrannigan said:

Nearly every TV programme I watch is on the Planner nowadays; no adverts

I also make sure I do a Planner Rebuild every couple of weeks or so.

how do you do the rebuild and do you have to put stuff back in afterwards?

[allgonepetetong]

Absolutley everything! I never watch live TV anymore.

Everything gets recoreded and replayed, even if only 15mins after the program has started, just so I can whizz through all the adverts.

Often I don't want to watch TV at sheduled times as I have better things to do, as I'm sure you do too. Watch it when you want to watch it, not when the scheduler says you should watch it.

[Halb]

SpeedBash said:

Similar to others, I now record stuff even if I'm in a position to watch them at the time of broadcast so that I can fast forward the adverts.

As you have noticed, its very easy for th box to become a library of stuff to watch and I'm on 10% free space which I have to juggle daily to ensure I can record new programmes.

I really must have a spring clean.

Haha, same here, got a few films and dramas
Currently got Damages not watched a single ep. I recorded Mad Men watched them all in one go having never watched it before, it was ace

[forsure]

CivicMan said:

Record Countdown every day and just fast forward the bits with contestants, Jeff doodah and dictionary corner.