Sky+ recording question...

Bardo said:


"Gareth Kitchener" wrote in message
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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! ;-)


Not if you want to watch it later rather than at the time.



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Gareth Kitchener
Bedfordshire, England
http://www.garethkitchener.org.uk

On 07 Jul 2003 18:17:15 GMT, oneofit (HarryPatt)
wrote:

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?

You can record it as well, but it will record the live transmission
and not the rewound part. If you want to see the beginning of the
programme, you'll miss it on the recorded copy, but you'll see it on
rewind.

Paused/rewound live TV is not kept for posterity beyond the point
where you catch up with the live broadcast

Brian

bigbrian said:

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:44:17 +0100, Gareth Kitchener
wrote:

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?

You can only copy onto video someting that has been recorded into the
Personal Planner. Stuff that is simply held in the pause/rewind live
TV buffer isn't loaded into the personal planner, so it can't be
copied to video. But it *is* a kind of (limited) facility to record
two things at once. You can pause live TV while recording another
channel.

Brian


I didn't mean copy it to video later - I meant to make the Sky+ think
you were watching it (as buffered/live), but record it on the VCR
instead.


--
Gareth Kitchener
Bedfordshire, England
http://www.garethkitchener.org.uk

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 23:30:43 +0100, Gareth Kitchener
wrote:

bigbrian said:

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:44:17 +0100, Gareth Kitchener
wrote:

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?

You can only copy onto video someting that has been recorded into the
Personal Planner. Stuff that is simply held in the pause/rewind live
TV buffer isn't loaded into the personal planner, so it can't be
copied to video. But it *is* a kind of (limited) facility to record
two things at once. You can pause live TV while recording another
channel.

Brian


I didn't mean copy it to video later - I meant to make the Sky+ think
you were watching it (as buffered/live), but record it on the VCR
instead.

I don't think it works that way, although I've never tried it, I would
think that the VCR will record the signal from the tuner (ie, what's
being broadcast "live"), rather than what your TV is actually
displaying. Might be worth a try though.

Brian

"Mike Henry" wrote in message
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In ,
oneofit (HarryPatt) wrote:

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?

Yes. If you want to be able to save a recording in those circumstances,
get a TiVo instead. :-)

I've just sold mine to buy a Sky+ so that's not a terribly helpful answer!

You can only copy onto video someting that has been recorded into the
Personal Planner. Stuff that is simply held in the pause/rewind live
TV buffer isn't loaded into the personal planner, so it can't be
copied to video. But it *is* a kind of (limited) facility to record
two things at once. You can pause live TV while recording another
channel.

I didn't mean copy it to video later - I meant to make the Sky+ think
you were watching it (as buffered/live), but record it on the VCR
instead.

Whatever is being shown on the screen can be recorded to video, as
you're watching it. So you could rewind to the beginning of the
programme, then set the video recording while you watch it (or go
somewhere else and don't watch it). Not ideal perhaps, but a
solution. Saving the paused buffer is one of the things that is
rumoured to be on the development list, along with dual recording.
Believe it'll happen when you see it...

Simon Kempster

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 21:28:27 +0100, "Bardo" wrote:


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



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


Just trying to help :-) Actually, I misunderstood your question - I
thought you just wanted to watch it - not record it.

On 07 Jul 2003 18:17:15 GMT, oneofit (HarryPatt)
wrote:

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?

Yes, but why would you want to?

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:16:43 GMT, bigbrian
wrote:

Presumably you could record it onto video?

You can only copy onto video someting that has been recorded into the
Personal Planner.


Rubbish!

Stuff that is simply held in the pause/rewind live
TV buffer isn't loaded into the personal planner, so it can't be
copied to video.

Of course it can - just like any live programme - even before Sky+

"K" wrote in message
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 21:28:27 +0100, "Bardo" wrote:


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



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


Just trying to help :-) Actually, I misunderstood your question - I
thought you just wanted to watch it - not record it.

No worries mate - I appreciated the help anyway! :-)