Sky Tv

[Bazile]

Can you record a programme unto a dvd - if so how ?

Someone would like to watch the Indianapolis 500 , but hasn't got sky

[Guilbert53]

Sky have an option called Sky Go where you can logon to Sky on your computer and watch Sky TV on the computer.

So what you COULD do is register for Sky Go yourself then give HIM the Sky Go userid and password and let him watch Sky Go on his computer.

http://go.sky.com/

[Tuvok]

Connect your Sky box to your dvd recorder.

Set the channel on the dvd recorder to the relevant input eg. if you've connected the box into AV1 then choose AV1

If you are watching your program as it is broadcast, then just start recording on the dvd recorder.

If you are watching a recording on the Sky box - start it playing and then start the recorder recording.

Don't change the channel whilst recording as the dvd recorder will continue reording whatever you're watching.

If you have a few things you want to put onto dvd then there is an option on the sky box.

Go to the planner and for each thing you want to record select the program, press the right arrow then you should see COPY as an option at the bottom - press the green button to mark the program for copy.

Once you've got the ones you want to copy marked, press selct, then agree to the message on screen, start the dvd recording and go and do something else for the duration of the recording.

[Bazile]

I have now ascertained that only BT Sport will be showing the race .

Thanks for that both - at least I have the knowledge for future reference of how to record a programme

[sunny-dave]

Just to add to what Tuvok has said, you can't record the HD signal which is output on the HDMI connection - only the signal from the older SCART connection. If you have a Sky Q box (and hence no SCART connection) you're going to need an HDMI/SCART adaptor - and these are notoriously flaky.