HD movies on my laptop?

poppikins

I was going to get a Sky HD movies subscription but do not yet have an HD ready TV.

I have an HD ready laptop so would I be able to see them on this?

poppikins

spike7451

As far as I'm aware,no.
Not without a lot of hassle saving the movies to a HD DVD recorder.Even tho the are PC ports on the back of the HD box,they're not in domestic use.
If you could do it,the installer wont be able to set it up on the PC anyway.(most Sky installers I worked with could'nt even turn a PC on!)

Pokerlad

Some laptops have an HDMI port now and as yours is labeled HD ready I wonder if yours does?

If so could you just not plug the HDMI cable from the SkyHD box to the laptop instead of into the TV or is the HDMI on the laptop just output? I'm guessing it's prob just output.

Could a seperate TV card handle HDMI input?

Even if you had a HD/BluRay recorder you couldnt record from the SkyHD box because anything over HDMI is sent copy-protected. You can only record from Scart and that would be SD not HD. You also can't just drag and drop the content of the SkyHD HardDrive as it's encrypted and needs the keys from your viewing card to play back.

dougz_2

poppikins wrote: »

I have an HD ready laptop so would I be able to see them on this?

You have 2 main obstacles:
1) Avoiding the HDMI content protection
This is probably easiest overcome by swapping your sky box for an older model that still had a component output.

2) Getting the video into the laptop in HD quality
This requires a HD capture device, something like the Hauppage HDPVR which costs around £150.

poppikins

Pokerlad wrote: »

Some laptops have an HDMI port now and as yours is labeled HD ready I wonder if yours does?

If so could you just not plug the HDMI cable from the SkyHD box to the laptop instead of into the TV or is the HDMI on the laptop just output? I'm guessing it's prob just output.

Could a seperate TV card handle HDMI input?

Even if you had a HD/BluRay recorder you couldnt record from the SkyHD box because anything over HDMI is sent copy-protected. You can only record from Scart and that would be SD not HD. You also can't just drag and drop the content of the SkyHD HardDrive as it's encrypted and needs the keys from your viewing card to play back.

Thanks for replies.

I am asking as I know absolutely nothing about it and am grateful for any help.

The salesman told me that I could get a Sky movies subscription and then just plug the digibox into my laptop. I confess I took it as read at the time but was not able to do it then.

The laptop is a Sony Vaio AR21S T7200. It must have BluRay you mention as some BluRay movies came with it.

I don't want to copy anything, just watch the movies with the Sky movies subscription (viewing card).

Be grateful for any help.

poppikins

macman

But what is the point of watching HD movies on a 15in screen?

poppikins

macman wrote: »

But what is the point of watching HD movies on a 15in screen?

It's 17in and is HD ready

poppikins

macman

OK, but would you watch HD on a 17inch TV? Probably not.

dougz_2

poppikins wrote: »

I don't want to copy anything, just watch the movies with the Sky movies subscription

What I described is required regardless of you wanting to keep copies

Hillfly

There is no easy way to do this - the salesman told you a lie. The hdmi port on laptops is 99% for putting a signal out of the laptop into a tv - not for receiving one.
If you have aBlu Ray player in your laptop you can watch Blu rays on your laptop - but it doersn't mean you can watch other external devices on your laptop in HD. It's liek doubz said I'm afraid.