DVD recorders and Sky+

Spendaholic_Chick

Hope this is in the right place!

My Sky+ is almost full, with lots of things I don't want to delete, so I've decided to but a dvd recorder to transfer them onto dvds.

I've looked at DVD recorders online, but can't seem to find an answer to this question - do I need anything in particular in a dvd recorder, or will any be able to record from my sky+?

Would appreciate any advice, thanks!

pcombo

lol why bother. As its sky all the stuff will be repeated anyway

buglawton

You can record from Sky box to a DVD recorder via Scart cable. I'm also inclined to ask, why bother?

Spendaholic_Chick

Thanks, that's great. There's a lot of stuff on tv that isn't repeated, hence why I want to put them on dvd.

deebee

I got an LG one at Argos a few weeks ago for the same reason, it;s an upscaling one, so it upscales the dvds to HD quality, it's very good and was easy to connect (for a change lol), was about £119

buglawton

And there are some real cheapies around the £50 mark on Richard Sounds bargain section if you don't mind a non-Bluray, non-Freeview DVD recorder, one of these will tide over till the blu-ray recorder proposition becomes compelling.

computershack

PLEASE NOTE that many programmes on Sky+ have Macrovision. This will screw around with the AGC on any recorder and result in a picture that varies all the time in colour and contrast.

buglawton

This would not surprise me at all, why would Sky allow you to record for free when they want £10/month minimum just to use Sky+ to record Freeview programs?

nickcardwell

why dont you put in a bigger hard drive?

easy enough done, went from 20hrs of recording time (40Gb hd) to 250gb (125hrs or recording time)

doa google search on upgrading sky hard drive.

Spendaholic_Chick

deebee wrote: »

I got an LG one at Argos a few weeks ago for the same reason, it;s an upscaling one, so it upscales the dvds to HD quality, it's very good and was easy to connect (for a change lol), was about £119

I've gone for this one too. However, I don't need the freeview as I already have the SKy+. Bit confused about setting it up now

Should I just replace the current dvd player with this new dvd recorder, or is there a way to connect this completely (i.e. as a dvd and hard drive recorder) without affecting the sky+, so effectively giving me two hard drives, as well as the dvd recorder? Does that even make sense to anyone else? lol

Spendaholic_Chick

Can anyone help with this? I've got wires and stuff all over the floor, with no idea what to do next! lol