Sky+ recording question...

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Just changed over to Sky+ from TiVo

Why?
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In article ,
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Just changed over to Sky+ from TiVo

Why?
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Dom Robinson

Can you watch one channel on Sky while recording a different Sky channel on
the TiVo?
I was lead to believe you can't and so opted for Sky+.

Dee wrote:

Can you watch one channel on Sky while recording a different Sky channel on
the TiVo?

I can. But of course I equipped myself with two digiboxes for just
this purpose.

Personally if I subscribed to Sky at all I would prefer to pay an
extra monthly sub for a mirror card (to use with a Tivo) than to pay a
Sky+ sub.

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In article ,
says...
Just changed over to Sky+ from TiVo

Why?
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Dom Robinson

Can you watch one channel on Sky while recording a different Sky channel
on
the TiVo?
I was lead to believe you can't and so opted for Sky+.

Got it in one! Another reason I changed over is because now I've got a DVD
recorder, I wanted a *bitstream* recorder rather than a recorder that
reencodes the video from an analog signal - it just effects the signal too
much as the signal has effectively gone through a DADAD conversion by the
time it gets onto DVDR!

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 22:33:03 +0100, "Bardo" wrote:

Just changed over to Sky+ from TiVo and have a quick question for you Sky+
experts in here...

Right, here goes. Imagine, if you will, that you return home to find that
you've missed the first 20 minutes of a TV show that you desperately wanted
to record but forgot to program into the Sky+ planner. On the TiVo, it used
to keep a constant 'buffer' of the last 30 minutes of television and so if
you wanted to record a program that had already started, you could get TiVo
to record your program complete with the first 20 minutes that you'd missed
using the first 20 minutes of the program held in TiVo's buffer. Is this
possible with Sky+? Try as I might, I can only get recording to start from
the point that the 'Record' button is pressed - it seems to ignore any part
of the program held in the Sky+ buffer, despite it being set to 60 minutes.
Sure it can (subject to a couple of "ifs")

IF the digibox has already, during your absence, been tuned to the
channel that the desired program is on, and

IF you *don't* start trying to record it, then....

Come home, turn the telly on, realise you've missed the start of the
program.

Rewind the live TV to the start of the program and pull up a chair.

It won't be available if you want to watch it again or keep it for
future use, but at least you won't have missed it

Brian

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:53:44 +0100, "Poncho & Lefty" wrote:




You can stop trying because (at the moment) it can't be done.



It can be done if you do it correctly :-)

First of all you need to go into the Sky+ settings and change the size
of the buffer. The defauly is 0 mins; you can set it up to 1 or 2
hours I thnk.

Secondly, instead of pressing the record button, press the rewind
button. Assuming you are on the correct channel, you should be able
to rewind as far as the length of the buffer.

As long as you have enough free disk space, once you have started to
rewind, that much of the programme will still be there until you come
out of live pause mode. (unlike Tivo which has a moving
last-30-munutes buffer)

HarryPatt said:

It won't be available if you want to watch it again or keep it for
future use, but at least you won't have missed it

Let me get this straight. If I rewind to the start of a program I can only
watch it there and then and NOT record it as well?

Presumably you could record it onto video?



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In article ,
says...

"Dom Robinson" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
Just changed over to Sky+ from TiVo

Why?
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Dom Robinson

Can you watch one channel on Sky while recording a different Sky channel on
the TiVo?
I was lead to believe you can't and so opted for Sky+.

You can't, but you'd be hard pushed to find two programmes that are on at the
same time each week and don't get a repeat later the same week. So all this
"watch one while recording the other" goes out the window.

And you can bet that one of the two will usually be available via DTT anyway
(or analogue) and I have a DTT box connected to watch stuff via that while I
record something on the TiVo.

If that's all the Sky+ has got over the TiVo then it's not saying much. Sky
have really shot themselves in the foot with so many repeats.
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:53:44 +0100, "Poncho & Lefty" wrote:




You can stop trying because (at the moment) it can't be done.



It can be done if you do it correctly :-)

First of all you need to go into the Sky+ settings and change the size
of the buffer. The defauly is 0 mins; you can set it up to 1 or 2
hours I thnk.

Secondly, instead of pressing the record button, press the rewind
button. Assuming you are on the correct channel, you should be able
to rewind as far as the length of the buffer.

But that's kinda missing the point - you still can't *record* what's held in
the buffer!

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HarryPatt said:

It won't be available if you want to watch it again or keep it for
future use, but at least you won't have missed it

Let me get this straight. If I rewind to the start of a program I can
only
watch it there and then and NOT record it as well?

Presumably you could record it onto video?

LOL! Kinda defeats the object really, doesn't it! ;-)