What to do with my old Sky+ Box

Beatlefan

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help please.

We're taking advantage of Sky's over to get a free Sky HD+ Box and the engineer is coming this afternoon to install it. And we've gone through a cashback site, so that should pay for installation and the first few month's HD subscription. So far, so good.

My only problem is that there are a few things on our old Sky+ Box that I want to keep, mostly music stuff, gigs, etc. We haven't got a DVD recorder at present, so I can't quickly download it all onto disc.

Once the new box is installed is there anyway I can transfer what's on the hard drive of the old Sky+ Box onto a dvd recorder at a later date? When the Sky engineer called to confirm the time he was coming, he said you couldn't swop back and forward between boxes. He said once the HD Box was in, that was that.

He did say I could give the old box to someone as a present though - so don't know if that would mean they would be able to access what's currently on my hard drive or whether that would automatically be wiped if it was set up for another Sky subscriber.

Grateful for any advice. I've resigned myself to losing some of the gigs I've recorded, but if anyone's got any ideas, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks. :T

fwor

A better solution than a DVD recorder might be to transfer the recordings to a PC's hard disk. Take a look at the following freeware:

http://www.skycopyplus.co.uk/

knightstyle

I have been looking at Sky plus boxes on Ebay, they seem to sell OK there. I don't think that without special equipment you can download from the box, but you can erase everything before selling if you like. If you want to sell PM me and perhaps we can do a deal.

atlantis187

knightstyle wrote: »

I have been looking at Sky plus boxes on Ebay, they seem to sell OK there. I don't think that without special equipment you can download from the box, but you can erase everything before selling if you like. If you want to sell PM me and perhaps we can do a deal.

Ive got a sky+ box for sale in perfect working order if ur interested in buying?

knightstyle

atlantis, I have sent you a PM

chrisw

The recorde programmes are retained on the sky box. You don't need to connect it all back up again, just a scart lead to tv and/or dvd recorder and play the programmes back from the planner.

Oneday77

chrisw wrote: »

The recorde programmes are retained on the sky box. You don't need to connect it all back up again, just a scart lead to tv and/or dvd recorder and play the programmes back from the planner.

The only exception to that is any box office recordings.

moneyuser

chrisw wrote: »

The recorde programmes are retained on the sky box. You don't need to connect it all back up again, just a scart lead to tv and/or dvd recorder and play the programmes back from the planner.

Is this something they've changed recently then? I was under the impression you need a valid sky+ subscription to view recordings and since the viewing card is now in the hd box this won't be the case?

troublegum

If you don't mind me asking, which cashback site did you go through? I also have Sky+ and am looking to upgrade to HD and all the cashback sites I have looked at said for new customers only.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

troublegum wrote: »

If you don't mind me asking, which cashback site did you go through? I also have Sky+ and am looking to upgrade to HD and all the cashback sites I have looked at said for new customers only.

AFAIK, all the cashback sites are for new customers only.

troublegum

Phantom_Flan_Flinger wrote: »

AFAIK, all the cashback sites are for new customers only.

That is what I thought but the OP seems to imply otherwise.