Sky+ to PC

MaceFace

I am sure this must have been asked before, but can't find a decent answer.

Basically, I want to get recordings from my Sky+ box onto my PC.

The solutions I have seen people mention before is to use a capture card in the PC, but don't want to do that.

What I am hoping for is that I can get a cheap standalone DVD recorder which I can hook into my Sky+ box through a Scart or the like. Then using the Record feature on the Sky+ box, play back the recording at nighttime onto a DVD +RW disk on the recorder, and then copy that disk onto the PC.

Is this possible?

Daavid

That should be perfectly possible. If your PC is good enough you could get a WinTV usb addon for your computer for about €70 in argos. You can hook the sky box to that with a scart I think, and record direct to the PC bypassing the DVD altogether, and its probably cheaper than buying a DVD recorder.

MaceFace

The Sky+ to PC direct connection is something I do not want as the PC is upstairs and moving it is not an option.
Therefore, I was thinking of the DVD recorder. I hear that you can get them for under 100 at the moment, and I presume if you record something from Sky onto the DVD recorder with a DVD+RW disk in it, the quality will be almost perfect? I could be very wrong.
If I can put the recordings onto a DVD+RW, the disk is only 5 quid, and the recorder for under 100.
I don't know the format the recordings is in though.

Anyone have a DVD recorder which they use to record from standard TV or Sky?

branners69

MaceFace wrote:

The Sky+ to PC direct connection is something I do not want as the PC is upstairs and moving it is not an option.
Therefore, I was thinking of the DVD recorder. I hear that you can get them for under 100 at the moment, and I presume if you record something from Sky onto the DVD recorder with a DVD+RW disk in it, the quality will be almost perfect? I could be very wrong.
If I can put the recordings onto a DVD+RW, the disk is only 5 quid, and the recorder for under 100.
I don't know the format the recordings is in though.

Anyone have a DVD recorder which they use to record from standard TV or Sky?

I have the Pioneer 530 which I use, I copy sky to the Harddrive first then edit the ads etc and the rip it to a DVD..

But you could pick up one of the PYE dvd recorders( this is mentioned in another thread about Philips dvd recorders) I think its only €100 from Power City!! And it would do what you want!!

watty

The quality is better than ordinary VHS and can vary from slightly better to slighty worse than S-VHS.

* Home DVD recording does not use anything like as good MPEG as off line PC conversion or the Broadcaster.

* The Sky+ is converted to analog, the analog is re-encoded to MPEG, you get extra re-compression artifacts compared with Analog off Air recording.


For FTA channels, recording direct on PC via a satellite PCI card is about twice the quality.

If the Sky+ channel is high bit rate and very artifact free, then the DVD recorder works well. If it is already a poorer bit rate channel, the recompression usually accentuates the artifacts and makes image noticably worse.

ffocused

anything over 2 hours recorded on a dvd recorder will be very poor quality especially on a cheap recorder. If you were hoping to burn 6-8 hours overnight to a disc...avoid

MaceFace

I would presume copying it to a HD in the DVD recorder and then moving it later to a DVD would be sound though?