Copying Sky Plus Content to Mac

[r3dt3ch]

Does anyone have experience with transferring content recorded on Sky Plus to a Mac ?

There appears to be a variety of solutions such as video cards, dvd recorders and even cracking open the Sky Plus box and accessing the hard drive. How do you do it?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

You mean apart from the solutions you already found, and are probably uncomfortable doing?

 

[MagicBoy]

Panasonic DVD-Recorder.

Sky+ dumps the incoming sat signal to the HDD, and uses the viewing card to decode it when playing back. Unlike some Freeview/Freesat recorders it doesn't just dump MPEG2 to the disk that you can copy off.

 

[r3dt3ch]

You mean apart from the solutions you already found, and are probably uncomfortable doing?

It's not a question of being comfortable. It's a question of peoples experience and deriving the best solution. Why do people respond to questions when they have nothing to offer? Ridiculous.

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Panasonic DVD-Recorder.

Sky+ dumps the incoming sat signal to the HDD, and uses the viewing card to decode it when playing back. Unlike some Freeview/Freesat recorders it doesn't just dump MPEG2 to the disk that you can copy off.

That's what I've read. Picking the files straight from the HDD would be apart of the most elegant solution, shame it can't be done. I imagine you go through quite a lot of DVDs doing it that way?

 

[MagicBoy]

The Panasonic also has an HDD so you can do some basic editing on the machine then transfer/archive off to DVD. I tend to use DVD-RAM or DVD-RW for transfers.

I didn't actually buy the DVR with this in mind. My apartment building only has a single LNB feed so they initially refused a few years back to install Sky+ as it needed a dual feed. I used the Panny with a standard Sky box which remotely woke the recorder when required. Now Sky+ works on single feed I've upgraded to Sky+ HD.