Hi.
Is there a recording device available that I can plug the hdmi lead that goes from my Sky box to my tv into and then plug a hdmi lead into it and the other end into my tv?
I can then set a programme to play and record it as it is played to my tv.
The reason I ask is that I want to capture all the programmes I have stored on the Sky box before I cancel my subscription.
Thank you.
Happy to be corrected but i dunt think that is possible due to recording and copyright restrictions. I wanted to do this years ago with my Virgin box and was told it wasn’t possible.
Someone may know a workaround.
Good luck.
If the Sky+HD Box has Scart sockets I use one of them to output to a Pioneer HD/DVD Recorder with Scart Input, you have to set the programme to play and the recorder to record. I usually look at the timings of the programme then set the recorder for a few minutes before/after, record to the Hard Disk then edit (the minutes before/after out) and save to DVD if I want to archive. Usually set them to record overnight, when we are not watching anything, can be slow and tedious but if you want to save stuff no other easy way I have found.
I have some software that allows the copying from disk to disk (complete copy) for disk replacement/upsize and even that can’t decrypt the files on the disk only copy the whole disk format.
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Some of them are likely to apply macrovision protection to the analogue output scuppering the effort to get an analogue recording.
There are devices on the market that strip protection from HDMI and allow capture to a computer. They are in that grey category where they are perfectly legal to make and sell and illegal to use.
Like the Uniti Core 
How does this sit with the copywright aspect? Does the Sky subscription allow you to capture in this manner?
Chap wants to end his subscription.
Possibly record his saved content.
I used to have an Archos 504 portable player, which had an optional dock with S video inputs. I hooked up the Sky box to that and recorded the odd film to the hard drive of the Archos. Can’t remember the format but it was capable of being exported from there.
I see some of the units still on the bay. Brings back memories of the kids watching films on “Archie” while travelling.
Sky boxes used to have a scart socket to allow you to do this. This may have been before HD.
I think playback from the disc requires an active subscription so just copying the drive wouldn’t work.
Maybe worth asking this on the Sky forum. Google suggests other people want to do similar
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