I just asked the techie but he says Sky have gone out of their way to try to prevent it. If I connect to another TV, then it won't allow a DVD write unless connected to the Satellite dish and then it would be seen as an unauthorised second set.
However, I asked if it would work if I just remove the HD and hook that up to a PC, copy across, remove the HD and burn a DVD from the PC. He thinks that should work. A job for a rainy day!
Gerry Winskill Fossil wrote:
Have you got a spare TV you can plug the old Sky box into? If you do and can bring up the menu system then you should be able to burn to DVD. The trouble is that I don't know if the menu is only activated with a live feed.. bones bones@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerry Winskill Sent: 15 June 2009 15:11 To: JHB Restricted Subject: [jhb] Off Topic It's a long time since I last used this title! Anyway, the knowledge is probably out there, somewhere.The TV techie had to be called in, last week, as our Satellite channels were playing up. Sound would continue but picture lock up. Then we started to get "no satellite signals detected". He eliminated the dish end of the setup, since he was getting good signals. That left the HD+ unit. It's a Sky supplied box and he was quite scathing about the quality and poor life of the units. So, he's coming back later to instal a replacement. No problems so far.However, it's just dawned on me that the existing unit's HD is about 50% full, with recordings that SWMBO wants to keep and that I've never got round to recording to DVD. With the old unit removed, is there a way of downloading the recorded material to this PC, so that I can move to DVD, when time and inclination permit?Gerry Winskill
