Lurch88
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| posted on 20/12/06 at 09:40 PM |
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DVD/ Hard Drive Recorder (Sky etc)
I have just bought a Sony Hardrive (Video) recorder and Its driving me nuts!
I cant get it to recognise any of the SKY channels. I have been through all the set ups (Several times) but it wont pick up the signal coming from the
Sky digital box at all.
Is there a setting in the Sky box I have to turn on? (I know there are hidden menus ect)
Or is this a hideous Sky ploy to make people subscribe to Sky+?
Helpppppppppppppppppp
Please forgive me if this is a rant I’v just been” testing” the Vino calapso I brought back from France last week
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smart51
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| posted on 20/12/06 at 10:03 PM |
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Do you have to recognise the Sky box as a channel or is it an auxilliary input like AV1 or something. Is it connected by SCART?
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phoenix70
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| posted on 20/12/06 at 10:04 PM |
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The only real way is to connect your sky box to the recorder via the SCART lead, and then you should be able to record the channel your on.
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JohnN
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| posted on 20/12/06 at 10:51 PM |
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Connect the sky box by SCART to either AV1 or AV2, sockets round the back, then with the remote, select AV1 or AV2 as the input, and whatever you have
on the sky box will be fed to the video recorder
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stevebubs
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| posted on 21/12/06 at 09:50 AM |
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You'll need to connect the Sky box in the same way you would connect a video - either via SCART or UHF/Aerial Lead.
To record, you'll need to setup a reminder in the sky planner as well as programme the time/date into the PVR.
External PVRs don't (currently) seemlessly integrate with a sky box.
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Lurch88
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| posted on 23/12/06 at 10:44 AM |
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Thanks for that.
.It will happily record the channel I’m on, but it has a built in Planner very similar to the sky menus and I cant get it to download that
information.
If I connect it to a terrestrial Ariel cable it will download BBC1, 2, ITV ,
Ch4 and Ch5 info from that.
Which makes it doubly frustrating that it wont get the information from SKY!
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greggors84
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| posted on 23/12/06 at 04:13 PM |
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Is there a connection on the back for the SKY dish cable? Or do you connect it to the sky box another way?
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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Peteff
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| posted on 23/12/06 at 07:10 PM |
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but it has a built in Planner very similar to the sky menus
It can only download it's own EPG, not the one for the Sky+ if it has it's own internal tuner. Does it have an option for the Sky+ box to
switch it on if you want to record from it as an external source?
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Lurch88
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| posted on 26/12/06 at 07:28 PM |
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Ok
it looks like it only can download the planner information from two channels ITV (terrestrial) or Eurosport on digital. I have not been running a
terrestrial aerial cable for some time relying on the Sky signal through scart cables. Therefore as the program guide is set ITV by default there was
no information to get. Have now plugged in everything ,all the scarts all the Aerial’s Everything.
Now all I have got to do is work out how to use the dammed thing!
Went to there web site in the end and went through the FAQ item by item.
Big thanks for your thoughts though.
Lurch
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