recording from youview

penrhyn

What on earth is s OK important that he wants a permanent copy. Set the box to record stuff when its shown live.

espresso

googler wrote: »

The installation manual for the BT YouView box shows it to have two SCART sockets, and it suggests if your TV doesn't have HDMI, to connect the box to TV with SCART.

Get a DVD or DVD/HDD recorder, and connect SCART - SCART to record from the YouView box, surely ...?

It's no different from connecting any other set-top box to a recorder.

Apart from the copy protection!

Be aware that a while ago the YouView software changed to emit a SCART signal with copy protection turned on. Presumably this was done to prevent copies being made of On Demand material.

googler

espresso wrote: »

Apart from the copy protection!

Be aware that a while ago the YouView software changed to emit a SCART signal with copy protection turned on. Presumably this was done to prevent copies being made of On Demand material.

Some online sources suggest this only applies to certain Sky channels

Wig

penrhyn wrote: »

What on earth is s OK important that he wants a permanent copy. Set the box to record stuff when its shown live.

You shouldn't need too many grey cells to realise I have missed something in the last week that I would like recorded.

Youview and iplayer potentially allow me to get a recorded copy.

googler

penrhyn wrote: »

What on earth is so important that he wants a permanent copy.

Why on earth would someone NOT want a permanent copy of a TV programme? Just because you don't find anything of interest, doesn't mean that everyone else should see it your way...

debitcardmayhem

googler wrote: »

Some online sources suggest this only applies to certain Sky channels

Huh what has Sky do with youview ? Some online sources talk bollix. Same sources don't know that youview will allow you to watch some things in the last seven days but not everything that has been shown on Freeview in that time.....if you have youview check it out otherwise comment on what you know. I still await the outcome from the ASA about their (Youview) ads

Edited: funny that youview ad just came on my telly at 23:50 claiming to watch the crap in the last 7 days, I can't even watch what I don't want to watch from this afternoon ( eg Channel 4 news or Star Trek)

debitcardmayhem

penrhyn wrote: »

What on earth is s OK important that he wants a permanent copy. Set the box to record stuff when its shown live.

googler wrote: »

Why on earth would someone NOT want a permanent copy of a TV programme? Just because you don't find anything of interest, doesn't mean that everyone else should see it your way...

OH dear you mis-quoted penrhyn again you cut his post thus in red above sadly to make your point (irrelevant) you missed the bits in blue above (relevant) you really need to use youview to review your posts in the last 7 days

ben501

A question I've been wondering about as well.

Sorry but the earlier answers seem conflicting to me (post 5 says yes, post 7 says no)

Just to clarify - if, for example, someone says - 'did you see that programme last night?' I could then watch it on YouView catch-up.
Could I also record the programme for later viewing or can YouView only record programmes at the time they are broadcast?

JohnStuart_2

penrhyn wrote: »

YouView is a PVR so naturally you can record any live programmes.

Thanks for telling me, i didnt know that. :T

googler

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

OH dear you mis-quoted penrhyn again you cut his post thus in red above sadly to make your point (irrelevant) you missed the bits in blue above (relevant) you really need to use youview to review your posts in the last 7 days

I didn't misquote him, I corrected his post. He wrote;

penrhyn wrote: »

What on earth is s OK important that he wants a permanent copy. Set the box to record stuff when its shown live.

which I read as (see post #15, too), and corrected to;

"What on earth is so important that he wants a permanent copy?"

The implication from this being that it's seen as somehow deviant to want to keep a TV programme permanently. I disagree. There's plenty of stuff worth keeping.

It's pointless to tell the OP to record it live, as it's clear the OP has already missed it and wants to record it from a catch-up service.

You really need to dismount from that high horse.