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What are the options for Hard Disk recording of UK FTA and FTV channels?

I have a Freesat for Sky card which I will bring with me to Cyprus.

This is my understanding:

If I buy a generic hard disk recorder I will be able to record FTA channels only.

If I bring a Sky + box, it will not work.

But if I have a generic hard disk recorder with card slot, will I will be able to record FTA and FTV provided I keep putting the Freesat-from-Sky card back into a normal Sky box every ten days or so to keep it active?

My great hope is that Channels 4 and 5 go FTA next year.

Have I got this right?

Do I have any other options?

[craigbeck]

What is FTA

[Hazza]

Free to Air

[hxxxlxxxh]

contact with my email
[email protected]

[MM_cy]

Dear Brian

1/ SKY HD and SKY plus DOES work out here... the problems are
a) getting it turned on -to record - matched to the box
b) keeping it turned on if the box is new or within the first year of a SKY contract.

Providing you have two feeds from the lnb and a SKY subsciption .. any SKY sub.. SKY now give the pause record facility FREE on all packages

2/ What type of SKY + is it?

The HD box is fantastic tuner, but most SKY + are poor on weak signals such as BBC1/2/ ITV , so if do NOT want to take out a SKY sub ,then this is NOT the tuner to bring to CY

3/ If you wish to use a std HDD /DVD recorder in conjunction with a SKY box and a FTV card, you could get

BBC 1/2/3/4/CBBC/Ceebeebies/News 24 / BBC parliament and BBC radio stns
ITV and ITV 2+1
C4
Five, Five life/ US
Trouble
SKY three
SKY News
CNN


without the FTV card..

BBC 1/2/3/4/CBBC/Ceebeebies/News 24 / BBC parliament and BBC radio stns
ITV and ITV 2+1
Trouble
SKY News
CNN

3/ a generic HDD/ DVD recorder will not read a SKY card. Free channels only

4/ It is rumoured that C4 might go FTV ..


This assumes you have dish big enough in Cyprus and correctly tuned..


Mark

What are the options for Hard Disk recording of UK FTA and FTV channels?

I have a Freesat for Sky card which I will bring with me to Cyprus.

This is my understanding:

If I buy a generic hard disk recorder I will be able to record FTA channels only.

If I bring a Sky + box, it will not work.

But if I have a generic hard disk recorder with card slot, will I will be able to record FTA and FTV provided I keep putting the Freesat-from-Sky card back into a normal Sky box every ten days or so to keep it active?

My great hope is that Channels 4 and 5 go FTA next year.

Have I got this right?

Do I have any other options?

[jo-zigbee]

hello brian

i have a skystar 2 card with dreamdvb, it works very well for recording tv

if you are interested send me pm

bye

Jo

[simonwjones]

Hi

I came accross a good site at the weekend. If you like footie this is a good one - http://www.footballstreaming.info/sched ... gland.html

This is also good http://www.andromedanet.com/tvu.html

Happy watching!