[access-uk] Re: Connecting Sky Plus to a Laptop

Hi Amro,

The ability to record to VCR while playing the recording from Sky+ or live ,
or indeed to a DVD still exists. That is exactly how one would record to a
PC, given that PC has appropriate video capture facilities, which most
won't. It is just that the time shift facility that Sky+ offers does not
enable fast dubbing from the hard disk to another media.

Sky+ do lots of things to encrypt their transmissions in order to protect
both their market place and copyright. You would need to emulates /
duplicate the technology in a Sky+ box in your PC to effect what you want.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.




Regards, John

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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Amro Bilal
Sent: 30 September 2007 23:41
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Connecting Sky Plus to a Laptop

People have always taped TV programs using their VCR(s) for their personal 
use. Very strange that Sky makes this operation pretty difficult to 
accomplish. The most thing I liked about Sky Plus was that I could save a 
program on it's hard drive, and then burn it to a DVD to keep a copy. Shame 
that turned to be a false assumption.

Amro

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Farley" <john_farley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 6:18 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Connecting Sky Plus to a Laptop


> Hi,
> From what I could find out there is no way of getting the encrypted data
> from the hard disk directly to another hard disk on a PC.
>
> The only way that I could see that it could be done is to replay the 
> desired
> recording and to capture the recording from the video out of the Sky+ box
> into a suitable connection on a PC. This would entail having some sort of
> full video capture software on the PC itself.
>
> If anyone knows of a way of doing it I am more than happy to be found
> incorrect on this.
>
>
> This may not be the case with other PVRs.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards, John
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of
> Amro Bilal
> Sent: 30 September 2007 17:22
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Connecting Sky Plus to a Laptop
>
> Hmm, so there's no way of transferring a recorded program to a DVD or a
> video tape from the Sky digital box internal memory? That doesn't sound
> right. Sorry if I misunderstood what you're saying.
>
> Cheers,
> Amro
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Farley" <john_farley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 3:42 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Connecting Sky Plus to a Laptop
>
>
>>I looked into this when I first got my Sky+ box and decided there was no
>>way
>> of doing it.
>>
>> You may want to look at the newsgroup uk.tech.tv.sky for further info.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards, John
>>
>> Contact on : (Home)
>> john_farley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>        or : (work)
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of
>> Steve Nutt
>> Sent: 30 September 2007 15:25
>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Connecting Sky Plus to a Laptop
>>
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> As far as I know, you can't connect Sky Plus to any computer.  The serial
>> port is just for Sky engineers.
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of
>> roger south
>> Sent: 29 September 2007 08:03
>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [access-uk] Connecting Sky Plus to a Laptop
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> My son wants to connect his sky plus to his laptop so he can download
>> recordings on his sky hard drive onto his laptop hard drive to burn 
>> discs.
>> He says the two machines won't talk to each other. Is there a tutorial to
>> help him do this around somewhere please.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
>>
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