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Hello All
A friend is about to upgrade his Sky+ to HD. He has some recordings on the old box that can't be replaced.
He is considering buying a DVD2 (from a reputable reseller not a million miles away). He wants to be able to archive the recordings from the Sky+ box before the new Sky+HD box arrives. Can he record them to the HDD in the DVD2 with a view to copying to disc at a later date if required?
Thanks for your collective wisdom.
Opman
My DVD2 can record from the HDD on my freeview box. The way mine is connected it will record whatever is on screen. You can then record to a DVD afterwards. It is quite a laborious task as yo can only record to the DVD2 in real time (although it records from the DVD2 onto disc quicker)and then you have to go in and chop out the stuff you didn't want to record.
The DVD 2 is also a very complicated machine with a very poor menu structure and it took me days searching this forum to find out how to finalise a DVD once I'd recorded it. Nothing seemed common sense in the menus and even getting the recording to save on to the HDD involves a few steps that just complicate the whole thing.
Is there not a workaround where he can take the HDD out of the Sky machine and connect to a PC and keep the recordings that way. A connector to run an HDD from USB is really cheap. I don't know enough about Sky recordings but on my Hamax box the recordings on the HDD are in a standard format that can be saved onto the PC then "archived" on the PC DVD burner.
Stoobie
A quick google search bought up this which may assist