transfering from sky+ to disc

[crockers]

Hi

Is there a quick and easy way of transferring recorded programs from the hard drive on sky+ to a dvd - at the moment I have to play the program and record it.... seems rather an archaic process......but have searched web with no joy

Thanks

 

[television]

I have never herd of one, turn it on and go shopping, take the good lady with you and you can get 5 hours moved over

 

[crockers]

Cheers Malcolm................ you confirmed my fears.............lol

 

[pammy]

It's the only way I know of too. I set it up then go do something more worthwhile or do it when I want to watch whatever it is.

 

[GRAV888]

That's the only way I know too.

 

[robert.saunders]

I don't know how you would do it quicker than "live" anyway, otherwise it won't work

 

[television]

I don't know how you would do it quicker than "live" anyway, otherwise it won't work

We do not want to know the truth on some threads

 

[robert.saunders]

We do not want to know the truth on some threads

Damn and sugar, I always fall for that ol' chestnut

 

[crockers]

I don't know how you would do it quicker than "live" anyway, otherwise it won't work

I was just hoping that someone had a "miracle" way of transfering the data as one does between hard drive and disc on a laptop......Oh well off to pick up my bed and walk...........

 

[HughJarse]

The only thing you can do is transfer the content to another disc via a free program. However this involves removing the drive from the unit.

 

[crockers]

The only thing you can do is transfer the content to another disc via a free program. However this involves removing the drive from the unit.

Think I'll give that one a miss......................lol

 

[robert.saunders]

I was just hoping that someone had a "miracle" way of transfering the data as one does between hard drive and disc on a laptop......Oh well off to pick up my bed and walk...........

Never utter "miracle" and "Sky" in the same context!!

 

[MikeL]

Not to mention, I'm pretty sure the data is encrypted, or at the very least the hard drive is formatted in a slightly different manner to standard PC/MAC hard drives. This is Sky after all.

Mike

 

[television]

Not to mention, I'm pretty sure the data is encrypted, or at the very least the hard drive is formatted in a slightly different manner to standard PC/MAC hard drives. This is Sky after all.

Mike

I cant answer that but we do take out the original and fit much larger HD's

 

[BTB 500]

I'm pretty sure the data is encrypted

Or more likely, compressed in some proprietary way.

 

[comports]

Hey Television. Is it difficult/expensive to fit a bigger drive to sky+. I have the standard one and am continually deleting things to save more onto it..? Is it a DIY jobby also..?

 

[HughJarse]

Hey Television. Is it difficult/expensive to fit a bigger drive to sky+. I have the standard one and am continually deleting things to save more onto it..? Is it a DIY jobby also..?

Yup diy.
Older boxes are IDE, best to find a 5400rpm for noise.
High Def boxes use SATA.

Its diy but if youre competent you can use a piece of software called copy+ which copies the content of your original drive and formats it correctly.

No matter you will find all you need to know here...
http://www.skycopyplus.co.uk/

 

[television]

Hey Television. Is it difficult/expensive to fit a bigger drive to sky+. I have the standard one and am continually deleting things to save more onto it..? Is it a DIY jobby also..?

Thats a handy link for you that Hugh has put up, and yes it is that easy

 

[MikeL]

To go back to Crockers original question, unfortunately you can't use Copy+ to create back-ups on the PC or DVD .

Mike

 

[Rory]

Not to mention, I'm pretty sure the data is encrypted, or at the very least the hard drive is formatted in a slightly different manner to standard PC/MAC hard drives. This is Sky after all.

Mike

The hard drive records the encrypted MPEG-2 Transport Stream.

It plays it back exacatly as if the stream was being received from the dish - so it has to be decrypted it and decoded.