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On 10/06/2025 15:45, JNugent wrote:
On 04/06/2025 06:11 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
JNugent wrote:
You wouldn't watch your own off-air video-recording (VHS / DVD-R / PVR >>>> / Whatever) via internet streaming, would you?
You might, if you were away from home and wanted to watch something
unavailable locally to where you are.
Sounds like a very clever and probably next to non-existent, case.
Easier to download to an iPad before leaving.
Can you download /any/ TV programme to /any/ computer for off-air use,
and download it simply? I'm sure I've noticed odd programmes that aren't available for streaming after live broadcasting.
And streamed programmes aren't viewable using slo-mo or frame stepping
in the way that older PVRs can (the new ones don't seem to be able to do
it).
I prefer Sky+HD. It doesn't "do" streaming. Anything on catch-up is downloaded to the drive and watchable in the same way as if it had
been recorded off-air.
A few movies from Sky Cinema are copy-protected.
JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
I prefer Sky+HD. It doesn't "do" streaming. Anything on catch-up is
downloaded to the drive and watchable in the same way as if it had
been recorded off-air.
+1 SkyQ much the same, especially good for people with very poor
internet connections, it can sort out a download in its own time. You
can also start watching the download with only a couple of minutes of
the item downloaded.
It is very good but expensive.
A few movies from Sky Cinema are copy-protected.
Feed the hdmi into a modulator, record the output on a PVR.
On 21/07/2025 01:33 PM, Bob Latham wrote:
-a-a-a JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
I prefer Sky+HD. It doesn't "do" streaming. Anything on catch-up is
downloaded to the drive and watchable in the same way as if it had
been recorded off-air.
+1 SkyQ much the same, especially good for people with very poor
internet connections, it can sort out a download in its own time. You
can also start watching the download with only a couple of minutes of
the item downloaded.
I had Sky Q, but the lack of a SCART output was too much to stomach. I
sent it back and reverted to Sky+HD.
It is very good but expensive.
I think Sky installed Q for free, and (of course) left the old Sky+HD
box with me. When I got rhem to come and take the Q box away, I assumed
they would reconnect the Sky+ box that I had carefullystored away. But
no - they gave me a new one (meaning that I still have in good condition
as a spare).
A few movies from Sky Cinema are copy-protected.
Feed the hdmi into a modulator, record the output on a PVR.
There's an easier way...
On 21/07/2025 01:33 PM, Bob Latham wrote:
JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
I had Sky Q, but the lack of a SCART output was too much to
stomach. I sent it back and reverted to Sky+HD.
A few movies from Sky Cinema are copy-protected.
Feed the hdmi into a modulator, record the output on a PVR.
There's an easier way...
On 31/05/2025 in message <101fu9a$1fpqv$1@dont-email.me> JMB99 wrote:
On 31/05/2025 21:22, Jeff Gaines wrote:
I watch less and less live TV and I'm getting more and more fed up with >>>the BBC who ignore complaints and feel the Bronze Buffoon is our new king >>>and so give him a great chunk or air time each night. We have just >>>commemorated the 85th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation but if you >>>only watched BBC you wouldn't know it (I managed to find some quite good >>>films on YouTube).
I saw quite a number of programmes about Dunkirk, what channels were you >>watching?
BBC News24 - only channel I watch live!
On 31 May 2025 20:22:59 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:
Is anybody here aware of a definitive guide to what is needed to legally >>give up my TV licence? I have a vague feeling that you have to get rid of >>anything that is capable of receiving live TV but need a reliable steer.
You don't need to get rid of anything. The TV licence is for the *use*
of equipment, not its ownership. You can own as many TV sets as you
like without a licence. You need a licence to watch or record what is
now called 'live' TV, i.e. broadcast TV, or TV recieved via any other
service *at the same time as it is being broadcast*.
In article <me6t87FtjvuU1@mid.individual.net>,
JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
On 21/07/2025 01:33 PM, Bob Latham wrote:
JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
[Snip]
I had Sky Q, but the lack of a SCART output was too much to
stomach. I sent it back and reverted to Sky+HD.
I don't have any need for analogue video so the lack of SCART wasn't
an issue. What we didn't and still don't like are the graphical
listings for your recording and things but the big advantage of Q is virtually no limit on how many simultaneous recordings you can do
without a clash. Everything worth watching is on at the same time.
[Snip]
A few movies from Sky Cinema are copy-protected.
Feed the hdmi into a modulator, record the output on a PVR.
There's an easier way...
Please enlighten ...
BBC News24 - only channel I watch live!
I now prefer Sky News.
In article <mhhv7k5genu0orlmtp8acsjcbgmkuc29vp@4ax.com>,
Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
BBC News24 - only channel I watch live!
I now prefer Sky News.
Those channels are amazing, they are completely captured by woke
ideology neither have the remotest connection to reality.
Now had you said Sky news Australia, that would have been very
different, they speak some sense.
:-)
Bob.
In article <mhhv7k5genu0orlmtp8acsjcbgmkuc29vp@4ax.com>,
Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
BBC News24 - only channel I watch live!
I now prefer Sky News.
Those channels are amazing, they are completely captured by woke
ideology neither have the remotest connection to reality.
Now had you said Sky news Australia, that would have been very
different, they speak some sense.