Copying off Sky +

[A210AMG]

Hello

I upgraded our sky + over the Christmas period and just rang them to cancel it as although its good not sure its worth £17 a month extra to us.

Rang up to cancel and chap said I'm paid up until 22nd of this month but If I cancel now the films we have saved get cleared

He then went on to say there is a USB port on the unit and I can download them using Nero or similar, I thought thats a good idea...

So told him to leave it with me, looked at the box and NO usb...

Whats the easiest way to copy the stuff off? do I need a DVD recorder..as I did mean to get one in the sales?


Thanks in advance

 

[robert.saunders]

Yes, u need a DVD recorder

Deja vu

 

[crockers]

Yes - you need to run the film and then record it on to a dvd recorder. If you have sky box office films they may well be encrypted and can't be copied.

 

[A210AMG]

Cheers...


OOh I know I asked a while back

"do I need a DVD recorder..as I did mean to get one in the sales"


Sorry

 

[HughJarse]

Yes - you need to run the film and then record it on to a dvd recorder. If you have sky box office films they may well be encrypted and can't be copied.

OOHHHHhhhhhhh yes you can !!!!

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[Mr E]

He then went on to say there is a USB port on the unit and I can download them using Nero or similar, I thought thats a good idea...

So told him to leave it with me, looked at the box and NO usb...

And I thought the USB was of no use?

Does anyone actually know whether you can use it for download onto a PC? Would be much better than the realtime transfer to DVD...

 

[HughJarse]

And I thought the USB was of no use?

Does anyone actually know whether you can use it for download onto a PC? Would be much better than the realtime transfer to DVD...

NO your assumptions are correct, the usb is of no use!

I'm unclear as what the Sky person was on about but you can't use it for anything at the minute.

 

[Soltan]

If the box is out of warranty then the quickest way might actually be to whip the drive out and attach it to your PC to copy the files off. Not tried it myself but was told by Sky engineer this could be done (unfortunately after he wipped the drive doing a reset... GRRRRRR).

 

[HughJarse]

If the box is out of warranty then the quickest way might actually be to whip the drive out and attach it to your PC to copy the files off. Not tried it myself but was told by Sky engineer this could be done (unfortunately after he wipped the drive doing a reset... GRRRRRR).

To coin a phrase that will be starred once I push the submit reply button....********!

Its a completley different format and you have to go through a massive procedure using software such as copy+ which is really just made for upgrading hard drives. Dont bother even trying, why do these sky "people" ( Im not going down the engineer route due to a recent post!) say such tosh?