Recording TV programs online

[#1]

really, have they made recording tele illegal? I guess they should jail the majority of the world population then.

[#2]

I bought a DVD recorder for my TV (with builtin digital decoder).

[#3]

We use Sky+
Does all of the above easily.
ducks and waits for the flak
John

[#4]

Both the Above are ok unlless you live where my sister does, South side of Bury St Edmunds Ridge, Choice of terrestrial stations, Talcneston, over the ridge, Sudbury, line of large trees in the way, OK in the Winter, useless in the summer for Digital, can get bbc1, bbc2, ITV1, 4 and 5 analogue, not the set of !TV, or 4 channels (itv1,2,3,4 etc) but yes to 5 on digital.  FreeView on sky, - some of the terrestial freeview are payfor on Sky, Both Sister and Hubby, techno idiots, had all the leads plugged into wrong sockets on new DVD/pvr made it a nightmare to record from sky, tried to plug in my portable PVR to the AV3 socket, overlaid onto sky.
Got in trouble last time I went - what have you done with our recorder - well nothing actually, hadnt even turned it on.  so left well alone, but this time put the manual on the table open to the page which showed which wire went into which socket, beat hasty retreat oh what a happy ten days baby sitting mum.

[#5]

Quote from: hulls

We use Sky+

But can you backup the hard disk? 

[#6]

Not as such Axis, but you can copy the programmes onto a recordable DVD (I will admit that you can only do it in real time, which is a pain)
John

[#7]

The reason I ask about backups is that when my normal TV died and I was forced to buy a digital TV, I paid extra to buy a DVD recorder instead of a PVR because of reasons of portability of recorded programs.
I gained incidentally because the DVD has it's own decoder, so I can watch one channel and record on a second one.

[#8]

my sister has a recordable DVD with PVR and tuner, AV2 takes output from Murdoc and can record it whilst you watch terrestrial Freeview on its tuner, or Analogue on the TV, it also has AV3 for input from PC, mind you when baby sitting last week all the scart plugs were in the wrong holes

[#9]

Quote from: pierre_pierre

not the set of !TV, or 4 channels (itv1,2,3,4 etc) but yes to 5 on digital.

Need to upgrade the aerial to a wide bandwidth/digital aerial to receive these stations in that area of the country.

[#10]

For most people an aerial upgrade is essential.
On analogue, a weak signal or some interference gives you a watchable picture (perhaps with some "snow").
With digital, you will be lucky to get anything - borderline gives a badly pixelated picture.

[#11]

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Transmitter BBC         ERP ITV & C4 ERP SDN ERP Mux B ERP Mux C ERP Mux D ERP Site Details NGR Channel (kW) Channel (kW) Channel (kW) Channel (kW) Channel (kW) Channel (kW) Sudbury    TL913377 49 7 68        8.1 48 5 39         7.5 54 1.5            50 1.1 Sudbury B   TL913377 56         1.1

so BBC 49,  ITV either 68 or 56, SDN 48, Mux b 39 muxc 54 mux d 50
Not my set up, thats up to them

[#12]

I'm on the same transmitters BBC Ch49 ITV1 Ch56

[#13]

In TV setup etc I found it totally baffling - worse than setting a video recorder!
It seems that the are several transmitters picked up by my highly directional aerial 
I automatically get a bunch of channels from each of several transmitters.
Well that's how it seems to be anyway.
I haven't a clue what a "mux" is in this connection.
BTW I get all the channels - including about 20 shopping channels.

[#14]

its not up to date but this is list I once made up, on my tv tuning I can check the signal, quality and channel number of each program (pdf)
You will see that it tuned in the rogue channels twice, numbering the second set 800 plus

[#15]

I think that most of the "pay" channels have disappeared - but otherwise it's pretty accurate.