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Sky+hd with dvd recorder.

  • 16-02-2009 1:49pm
    #1
    greenman09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭


    Got hd installed today. Installer said to gf that we cant use dvd recorder with the sky to record stuff or it would mess up the channels. Is this true? Will be using the plus but if want something would xfer to dvd. Was Using it with standard sky


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  • #2
    fat-tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,711 ✭✭✭fat-tony


    No problem in using a SKY HD box with a DVR. I used one for the past two years. The TV out SCART is looped through the DVR on on to the TV. (I aslo have a HDMI cable connected to the TV for HD channels). If I needed to archive anything off the SKY HD disk, then I used the COPY function or just played the programme and recorded onto the DVR.
    If your setup is similar, then I see no reason why it wouldn't work.

    Alternatively, if you don't have a loop-through on your DVD recorder, then you connect the VCR out SCART on the SKY HD box to it - that's what it's for.


  • #3
    greenman09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭greenman09


    I have it all looped as you said. Had de ring sky about something earlier and he mentioned when i asked above Q, that the boxes could have/had an encryption on them to prevent recording to dvd in case of piracy. Wasnt sure tho if was the case now as it was engineers i was through to


  • #4
    gtg60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭gtg60


    I believe that some of the programs you record can have Macrovision enabled (a copy protection system to stop you recording them to DVD) but I've never had a problem. Probably for Sky box office stuff (which I don't/ won't use anyway).


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    That 'Problem' Sky had which caused them to recall certain HD boxes has something to do with it, they claimed it had something to do with the hard drives.

    Found by a clever lad on a UK forum i frequent
    the 'fault' is that the receivers have component outputs as well as HDMI, and the component outputs are not HDCP copy protected, nor are they makrovision protected

    its a perfect HD output that can be copied straight to DVD

    ive repaired 6 of these exact units today, as theyre now worth a lot more money to those who know about this 'fault'
    faultcz4.jpg
    w640.png


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