Sky Plus Recording
 

I record a lot of programmes for watching later using my Sky Plus and copy
them to video if I wish to keep them for watching again. Up to now this has
worked well and I can ensure that the Sky + hard disc does not get too full.
I did this with no problem for the first of the new Stargate series; but this
week, when I tried to watch and copy the Stargate SG1 and Atlantis records via
the Sky +, they would neither play nor copy. BBC programmes played back and
copied with no problem. Have Sky or the Stargate makers put a block on copying
for later viewing? For various reasons it is not convenient for me to watch at the Sky
transmission times.

Philip Hetheringgton

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"Philip Hetherington" wrote in message
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I record a lot of programmes for watching later using my Sky Plus and copy
them to video if I wish to keep them for watching again. Up to now this
has
worked well and I can ensure that the Sky + hard disc does not get too
full.
I did this with no problem for the first of the new Stargate series; but
this
week, when I tried to watch and copy the Stargate SG1 and Atlantis records
via
the Sky +, they would neither play nor copy. BBC programmes played back
and
copied with no problem. Have Sky or the Stargate makers put a block on
copying
for later viewing? For various reasons it is not convenient for me to
watch at the Sky
transmission times.

Philip Hetheringgton


Defintely not, (and I have watched all of the new Sky series 'time
shifted'). Try switching it off (at the mains) and then on again, I had a
similar thing where it wouldnt do 'copy' for any recorded program, which
this fixed.
BTW, if you are viewing things from video (aaargh) just because there isnt
enough space on the disk, why not put a bigger one in so you can have more
stored and then watch in much better quality?

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Philip Hetherington wrote:

but this
week, when I tried to watch and copy the Stargate SG1 and Atlantis records via
the Sky +, they would neither play nor copy. BBC programmes played back and
copied with no problem. Have Sky or the Stargate makers put a block on copying
for later viewing?

Surely not. You just have a faulty recording.

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"Philip Hetherington" wrote in message
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Have Sky or the Stargate makers put a block on
copying
for later viewing? For various reasons it is not convenient for me to
watch at the Sky
transmission times.

Defintely not, (and I have watched all of the new Sky series 'time
shifted'). Try switching it off (at the mains) and then on again, I had a
similar thing where it wouldnt do 'copy' for any recorded program, which
this fixed.
BTW, if you are viewing things from video (aaargh) just because there isnt
enough space on the disk, why not put a bigger one in so you can have more
stored and then watch in much better quality?

I copied the Saturday repeat of Stargate SG1 perfectly OK this morning using
"copy"; but an attempt to record the Sunday repeat of Stargate Atlantis failed
because I switched over to BBC1 whilst the box was also trying to record
BBC2 and before the last few minutes of Stargate Atlantis. And the box
finished with twenty per cent of its capacity lost -- so I have just been into
the engineer menu and done a repair and recovered the lost capacity. So my
failure on the copy was noting to do with any block by Sky but some hard disc
problem. It seems that if one switches over programmes before too soon the sky +
hard disc doesn't want to play!

I am very reluctant to try and fit a new drive at my age with muscles and
eyesight I can't fully rely on these days. For most purposes I find that
the capacity of the Sky+ is adequate. It is only when I want to record and
watch three or four programmes at the same time that I have problems and that
has was the case last week, Fortunately both BBC and Sky do repeat programmes,
and it is very much a matter of planning ahead.

Philip Hetherington

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