Just Sky+, for PVR on free channels, is it possible?

"Alraftter" wrote in message
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Why not just buy a normal pvr? (One with a hard drive and a dvd recorder)
It is a bit more fiddly to select
what you want to watch. But the quality is better because you can select
your bit rate and you can
record to dvd. Also save £120 a year subscription.


Quality is *better* because you can select your bit rate?? I dont think so.
Since the SKy+ records exactly what is broadcast, you cannot possibly
improve upon that, and all the variable bit rate lets you do is hold more,
not improve the picture. Having a built in DVD recorder is nice though.

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Alraftter wrote:
He doesn't want the Sky channels and from this, I assume most of the
channels he will watch will be
ordinary analogue( BBC, ITV). I still think analogue gives a much better
picture when watched using a good aerial.
A Hard Drive recorder such as the Panasonics RGB can record at a higher bit
rate than Sky broadcasts,
and therefore recording anologue would be better.

Err, how would that be an advantage when the analogue signal has to be
decoded from composite PAL ? How do you propose the OP might record
ITV 2, ITV 3, BBC 3 and BBC 4, how do you propose making anamorphic
widescreen recordings ?

As for freeview the picture is worse than Sky.

'Freeview/DTT' BBC, ITV , and C4 pictures are no worse than on 'D-Sat'
(aka Sky) IMO some are better, but I agree that C5 is far better on D-Sat.

A DTT PVR might be a better bet for the OP, I'll certainly be ditching
my Sky+ as soon as a DTT model with equivalent functionality, and stable
s/w appears.

BTW I think you've might have got the OP's gender wrong ?

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Alraftter wrote:

He doesn't want the Sky channels and from this, I assume most of the
channels he will watch will be
ordinary analogue( BBC, ITV). I still think analogue gives a much better
picture when watched using a good aerial.

Analogue RF = no widescreen and only 5 channels.

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