Recording Sky Programmes

Bunter_2

HI

For the past few years I have had a sky subscription. I used to have the sports channels but dropped them a couple of months ago. Now I have three basic channels. I had a single line input and a standard Amstrad box. I used to record programmes, the old way, using my Toshiba recorder.

A couple of months ago the opportunity came to have a new quad dish installed so now I have four feeds from the quad plus one from the old dish.

I then bought a Humax Foxsat recorder and I could not believe how easy it was to record programmes.

So now I have my basic subscription Sky channels in addition to the freesat channels on my Humax ; both working together fine (although on different input sources), of course.

The problem is that I want to record my Sky subscription channels (especially the documentaries) with the same "ease of recording" that I can achieve on my Humax. There is no going back now to the old "manual" way of recording.

I would be grateful if anyone could advise me what the best options are. I believe I am right in saying that it is not possible to use the Humax to record sky programmes.

So it would seem that I need to get hold of Sky Plus box

I have no problems with the line feeds required but need help in understanding the various upgrade options available. Would it be best to get a Sky plus box myself from ebay? Even if I do this will I still need to pay an extra subscription for Sky to make it functional?

Many thanks for any help or advice.

macman

As long as you have a Sky sub you don't need to pay the £10pm for the PVR functions on the Sky+ box. So an eBay box would seem the best solution,as nothing else is required if you already have the 2 spare feeds from the quad LNB.
You can't receive the Sky sub channels to record on the Hummy as the box cannot decrypt them.

Bunter_2

Many thanks macman. That means the solution (and cost) is going to be a lot easier than I thought.

The more I looked at the "available" options the more confused I was getting.

Thanks for clearing it up.