Rewinding Sky+

[Chappers]

Ok...this doesn't make sense...my mate has Sky+ and it works and everything. But the wierd thing is that sometimes, on certain channels you can pause it (nothing unusual there) and usually you would then unpause it and continue...but sometimes you can rewind the footage even if you have only just tuned in and haven't been watching the channel!

Imagine...you flick over, you find an episode of the simpsons you haven't seen (unlikely I know) you are 15 minutes into it...you pause, then you can rewind back the whole length of the show!

How the hell does it do that?

[:Ace:]

And then won't you be 15 minutes behind in viewing everything else on that channel? :-S! Very confusing

[ugly_bob]

errr, magic?
if I understand you correctly, I can't see how it does that.

[originalspa]

That's why I love sky+ so much!! It's to do with the hard disk drive where it gets stored but once you've seen a particular programme, you can stop it and it'll go back into real time again so you'll miss the 1st 15mins or however long a programme of your choice actually is of the next programme but not the whole schedule!

Hope that makes sense!

[Chappers]

Yeah that's just pausing live TV and then catching up...what I'm talking about is that sometimes on certain channels you can rewind footage that the sky+ box hasn't been recording...catch my drift? It's madness!

[Ethel]

Could it be that the sky box is 'always on'.

Your friend is watching tv through his aerial and the sky box is chugging away unnoticed, storing the programme on the hard drive.
He changes to sky - and notices it has been recording.

This happens with my hard drive dvd recorder, I don't have Sky.

[Chappers]

No that's not it. It's a wierd thing that doesn't always happen but when it does it's very strange.

[vinrex7]

Thats sky for you. my sky+ box has suddenly lost all the programs i had recorded and now it wont pause or rewind. thats the beauty of sky

[ajmmac]

i guess the program is stored and trasmitted from some sort of network server at sky so anyone who tunes in midway thru can go back to the begiining of the file and start afresh

[originalspa]

I tried this last night chappers and it didn't work!! It does if you catch a programme midway then when you press record you can go back to the beginning and watch it in it's entirety!

Maybe he has a magic box?! Wish mine did this when I press the pause button!!

[Mattk]

If you watch a channel for 15 mins then sky+ IS recording it and will allow you to rewind that 15 mins if you so desire.If,after 15 mins you press the record button,it will record from when you started watching the channel 15 mins earlier.

[Chappers]

It seems some people get it and others don't!

Vinrex...the magic of sky! I hear that!

ajmmac, sounds plauseable to me!

Originalspa...it seems to work only on certain channels. Still, sounds like it worked for you...come in midway, start recording then you cen go back to the beginning, that's pretty much it right there!

[Starbar]

Perhaps some programmes are received in a compressed format ?!?!?