Recording sky movies

liz_davidson

If I decide to get Sky movies at the special price or any price and I record them on my Sky + box, can I then copy them on to my dvd recorder or are they encrypted in any way?

Thanks for any advice.

:j

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

You should be able to, but there seems to have been some problems recently.

Have a look here.

I believe that only the Box Office movies are encrpyted.

sillygoose

As above, generally Sky strip protection off nearly everything (never tried a box office movie) and I have archived huge amounts via a DVD recorder (My Virgin/Telewest box would often send out protected signal so could not record pah! Branson)

Recently I got a multimedia hard drive that can record video signals to use instead and had a lot of problems, even with old Stargate's on Sky1, it appears that at the beginning of the program Sky were letting a short blip of protection signal through - causing the recorder to abort. If I pressed record again straight away I could record the whole program OK but could not do a multi-episode copy-out as it stopped at each episode's start.

Fortunately I have a nice protection signal removal box (from my the Virgin cable days) and by feeding the AV through this it can no longer ever be an issue. Contrary to some information it is not illegal to own or use these devices, it is only the act of copying unauthorised material that is, and you are allowed to copy Sky material, this is just a bug in the Sky box.

If your handy with a soldering iron I can recomend the Vellerman kit, not cheap but very good quality signal processing and onboard micro CPU control and opens up your options of what you can record in future.
http://cpc.farnell.com/HK00784/car-leisure-hobbies/product.us0?sku=velleman-kit-k8036&_requestid=438251