What do you do to record?

Elmo

Just brought up in another thread but since when did Sky+ become a verb?

So here we go what do you say when you are recording something from the TV?


Sky+ing it?
Recording it?
plusing it <<<< for people with out sky.
VideoPlusing it?

amacachi

I don't record, I'm not a thief. :pac:

Basq

Elmo wrote: »

Just brought up in another thread but since when did Sky+ become a verb?

VideoPlusing it?

The early 90's called.. they want their verb back! :pac:

PS - I always say 'I'll Sky Plus it!'

Bonkers_xOx

Recording it:o

I don't even have Sky!

Carroller16

Skyplussing it or record it i say both

Elmo

I think we should start a new phrase

saving it to the box
or
I am goign to save it to the box
or
I have put it on the box

Dman001

Like Basquille I say "I'll Sky+ it".

Brian CivilEng

Am I the only one to still say that I 'tape' things?

Carroller16

abitofacomedian wrote: »

Am I the only one to still say that I 'tape' things?

The early 80's called

They want they're verb back

Ron DMC

abitofacomedian wrote: »

Am I the only one to still say that I 'tape' things?

I actually say "I'll video it" or "Do you want me to video it?".

Elmo

abitofacomedian wrote: »

Am I the only one to still say that I 'tape' things?

From now on I am using either To tape or to videoplus

Brian CivilEng

Ron DMC wrote: »

I actually say "I'll video it" or "Do you want me to video it?".

Technically I think that you are more correct than I am as the verb "to video" existed before VCRs and is actually an old verb meaning to imitate or copy. Then again, maybe I should 'hard disk' it, or 'flash memory' it.

Carroller16 wrote: »

The early 80's called

They want they're verb back

Hmmm, pot kettle?

Elmo

abitofacomedian wrote: »

Then again, maybe I should 'hard disk' it, or 'flash memory' it.

Perhaps HDed?

I HDed it
or
I will HD that later
or
feck the HDing box is not working.

ScumLord

Tvs on the way out the door (if anyones looking for a free tv there's a link in me sig) I right click and save as. :pac:

Elmo

ScumLord wrote: »

Tvs on the way out the door (if anyones looking for a free tv there's a link in me sig) I right click and save as. :pac:

Bring it to an antique dealer.

DublinWriter

abitofacomedian wrote: »

Am I the only one to still say that I 'tape' things?

Nope, damn these young whippersnappers.

Liam Byrne

Carroller16 wrote: »

The early 80's called

They want they're verb back

And they also want you to refer to "their" verbs correctly!

Sky are pushing the phrase SkyPlus as if it were a new thing, as if there were never video recorders or VideoPlus, or as if there weren't any other boxes that allowed you to record.

I still have a video recorder (almost never used) and because my Sky sub will be getting the road soon (feck-all on it worth watching most of the time) and the fact that Sky+ is useless unless you keep up your Sky sub (imagine a video recorded that only allowed you to record if you had a current TV licence), I usually respond to someone who uses SkyPlus as if it were a verb with "Sorry - you what ? Oh, you recorded it"

All that said, "hoovering" became a verb (at least in some parts), so you have to watch out for those nasty marketing folk - they're persistent little buggers.....

Elmo

Liam Byrne wrote: »

All that said, "hoovering" became a verb (at least in some parts), so you have to watch out for those nasty marketing folk - they're persistent little buggers.....

Well sweeping was so 1910s :pac:

Liam Byrne

Elmo wrote: »

Well sweeping was so 1910s :pac:

Probably, but my point was that there was a non-branded word - "vacuuming" - before Hoover hijacked it in the same way that Sky have hijacked "recording".

Dman001

Elmo wrote: »

Perhaps HDed?

I HDed it
or
I will HD that later
or
feck the HDing box is not working.

It's best to say HDDed it, as some may think you are referring to High Definition.:)

TheManWho

"I'll record it"

I guess I'm just not as edgy as you guys, what with your abstract verbs and all.

sillyputty

I sky+ it because it is the stuff of HG Wells blah blah blah.

I am also one of those annoying people that try to convert friends to Sky Plus.

Liam Byrne

sillyputty wrote: »

I sky+ it because it is the stuff of HG Wells blah blah blah.

I am also one of those annoying people that try to convert friends to Sky Plus.

You still playing with the grandkids, George ?

Seriously, though - what's the point in investing, getting used to, and using a proprietary technology that becomes unavailable once you unsubscribe ?

fricatus

Think about it this way. When you're sitting in the stand in Thurles thinking "this is a deadly match - I can't wait to see that shamozzle on the telly later", then you realise you forgot to set the video/sky+ box/UPC digital thingy or whatever, what do you say?

Do you say
a) "FCUK IT! I forgot to VideoPlus the match!"
b) "FCUK IT! I forgot to PVR the match!"
c) "FCUK IT! I forgot to Sky+ the match!"

NO! You don't even say "FCUK IT! I forgot to record the match!". You say "FCUK IT! I forgot to tape the bastardin' match!"

QED...

Sir Oxman

fricatus wrote: »

Think about it this way. When you're sitting in the stand in Thurles thinking "this is a deadly match - I can't wait to see that shamozzle on the telly later", then you realise you forgot to set the video/sky+ box/UPC digital thingy or whatever, what do you say?

Do you say
a) "FCUK IT! I forgot to VideoPlus the match!"
b) "FCUK IT! I forgot to PVR the match!"
c) "FCUK IT! I forgot to Sky+ the match!"

NO! You don't even say "FCUK IT! I forgot to record the match!". You say "FCUK IT! I forgot to tape the bastardin' match!"

QED...

Noooo, you take yer mobile out and send a txt msg to sky+ it! *

Win win.

*that's if you remember at least 30 mins before program starts...