Sky plus box

[musicmummy]

Hi. is there any way of putting a programme off a sky plus box onto disc. Problem is i dont have a recordable dvd player. any ideas???

[wise monkey]

Do Sky+ boxes have a USB port on 'em? If they do, you could try putting a USB memory stick in and copying to it. Then you could transfer it to your PC and convert to VCD to watch on your dvd player/PC

Obviously all of the above will be complete tosh unless it has a USB port....Im guessing it doesn't but its worth a look......good luck

[wise monkey]

I just thought of something else that might help.......

You could remove the HDD from the Sky+ box and temporarily use it as a second HDD on your PC. Simply copy files and convert to VCD ect as above

[musicmummy]

thanx wisemonkey, i shall give that a try. K

[sparkyharky]

Sky+ does have a USB socket ... but don't bother trying to access it with a PC, it's disabled - only there for some Sky feature in future.

If you have no knowledge on video making on a PC, save time and frustration and buy a cheap DVD Recorder - far simpler... having had experience of both methods the DVD recorder wins every time (the computer route takes flippin ages from start to finish!)

[kepla]

Not too sure if wisemonkey's solution would be that easy to do. It would rely on the PC running an operating system which was able to access the file system on the Sky+box HDD, and then having the software able to access the format of video file used for the recording. Might be better trying to find a hack to eable the Sky+box's USB port.