'Copy' facility failure on Sky+

barrera

I recorded the three most recent episodes of Lost for a friend who was on honeymoon. When I went to transfer them to video in one fell swoop by marking them all with 'Copy', I found that uniquely out of the programmes saved on my Sky+, the copy facility was not available for the three Lost episodes.

Is there a copyright or some other reason that RTE shows (as I presume its not related to the Lost - maybe it's the island....:p ) can't be copied across in this way? I have to laboriously put each one of them on and record separately now instead.

DMC

It is unlikely in RTÉ's case, but I have found that when I've used the copy function during the daytime and it looks for the pin just before the start of the actual programme (not the same time as the start of the recording), it does enough for it to keel over and not copy.

I'd ring Sky to see if its a fault.

barrera

Yeah, I've had that PIN thing alright, but this is different - on the Sky+ planner, where the list of programmes you've recorded are shown, as you scroll down, every time I hit a 'Lost', the red square symbol in the bottom left of the screen to Copy disappears. Scroll to the next programme its back.

I'll give Sky a shout, but RTE are my number one suspect here.