[jhb] Re: OT TECHNICAL QUERIES
- From: "John Woodside" <fossil@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:39:32 -0000
You can copy content from the Sky box to a DVD Recorder - assuming you still
have one.
Heres how to do this:
Connect a SCART lead from the Sky+HD box to a spare SCART socket on a
DVD recorder.
Set the DVD recorder to the Line In feed (labelled AV, Line or Aux)
Insert a formatted blank DVD into the recorder
Cue up the programme on the Sky+ box that you want to copy
Put the DVD recorder into record and then start playback on the Sky+
box
Note that some content, such as Box Office movies, cant be copied in this
way, to prevent piracy / unauthorised copying.
John
fossil@xxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 03 December 2014 17:25
To: JHB Restricted
Subject: [jhb] OT TECHNICAL QUERIES
I suppose I should really be asking these questions on Social Media but fear
I'm too aged to use these new fangled devices. Apart from anything else, who
out there is interested in the fact I didn't have breakfast etc?
To the matter in hand. I've just replaced our disfigured TV with a 46"
Samsung, at almost a quarter of the cost of the smaller unit it's displaced.
To gain access to Smart TV, I've invested £44 in a marvellous TP Link system
that allows me to plug the TV into my router, sitting several rooms away,
via the power plugs in the two rooms. Amazing.
Next step is to set up the Humax Freesat Recorder unit that I bought to
replace our ageing Sky HD box. That leaves me with two posers that someone
may be able to shed light on.
1) For the Humax unit to access previous days' programmes as with the TV
unit's Smart TV function, it also needs to be connected to the Router. I can
achieve this by either plugging it into the TP Link instead of the TV, or
buying another TP Link unit so that both TV and Humax are wired in. Has
anyone coped with this already and able to offer advice please?
2) This one could save me from serious strife. The old Skybox is showing
its age and sometimes alleges that there's no signal. Swapping channels
brings the picture back. Sometimes fast forwarding stops the whole gubbins
and I have to power down then up again to get it to work.
If I just swap to the Humax these problems disappear(?) but leave me with
the crisis caused by the swap. Amongst the easily sacrificed recorded progs
on the Sky box are two whose loss would leave me in deep doodo! They are two
recordings of Songs of Praise, in the IOM, on which SWMBO can see herself
singing. Is there any way of copying these onto, say, a laptop, so that she
can still see them. Perhaps there's a commercial outfit offering this type
of service? I approached the BBC to see if I could buy a copy. I
can.....price £147 !
Replies in the usual unmarked brown envelope please.
Gerry Winskill
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