Sky+recording issue/help

minterno

hi guys,Is there any way to transfer a recording from a sky+ reciever to another device,ie hard drive or memory stick,There was a little clip of my grand daughter on rte for a few minutes and as the childs mother wants to pack up sky tv shes worried that she will lose the recording,i dont use sky myself but knowing the way they work i would assume that it might be a dose to do or maybe impossible,any ideas?

jgbyr

Record it onto disc using a dvd recorder. If you don't have one maybe you could borrow one.

brian ireland

minterno wrote: »

hi guys,Is there any way to transfer a recording from a sky+ reciever to another device,ie hard drive or memory stick,There was a little clip of my grand daughter on rte for a few minutes and as the childs mother wants to pack up sky tv shes worried that she will lose the recording,i dont use sky myself but knowing the way they work i would assume that it might be a dose to do or maybe impossible,any ideas?

Might be wrong here but I don't think you can. I had a philips hd recorder linked up to my upc box and I used to record from It. I got sky in and connected it up but it would not record, just a blank screen.

minterno

thanks for the replys guys,as i said i dont have sky so dont know if you can hook up a dvd recorder to it or a hard drive but i think sky would make it very hard to grab some files out of their box,if anyone has actually done it or can confirm that its possible and how to do it that would be a great help

void2500

I transfer Sky+ recordings on a regular basis over to my laptop using a video capture device, with included software. As far as I know it is not possible to transfer the actual files on the harddrive in the box as the files are encrypted.

minterno

jgbyr wrote: »

Record it onto disc using a dvd recorder. If you don't have one maybe you could borrow one.

I found a few posts tru google that gave the same advise as yourself so i will pass it on and see if they could borrow a dvd recorder off someone(murphys law'i got rid of a dvd recorder a few months ago,thought id neve need it again,cheers

minterno

void2500 wrote: »

I transfer Sky+ recordings on a regular basis over to my laptop using a video capture device, with included software. As far as I know it is not possible to transfer the actual files on the harddrive in the box as the files are encrypted.

thanks for that,would that be a tv card you used,

Gerry Wicklow

Aldi did a special on a video capture device which may suit

http://aldi.ie/ie/html/offers/special_buys3_19857.htm

I have no connection to Aldi

minterno

thanks gerry

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

Aldi did a special on a video capture device which may suit

http://aldi.ie/ie/html/offers/special_buys3_19857.htm

I have no connection to Aldi