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Whats the best way of getting SKY+ connected to my PC so I can save recordings?
dogtanian38 said:Most people already own a PC, in fact given this is the internet its a reasonable suggestion that the poster does, most people on these forums forget this. Sky+ has a svideo out, a cheap £15 PC card will have svideo input - as its made for the americans. Buy cable, set up software. PC DVD recorder drives are from around £25 if you need one, and a 120GB hard disc about £45 but I imagine you have a recent PC with these items already.
Starburst mentioned Standalone *HD* DVD recorder and cheap in the same sentence - other than that the post makes sense.
LoL! I must be getting old... P3 still sounds quite powerful enough for me.Some people are still using very sluggish Pentium III's for browsing the web.
unholy1 said:You don't have to have an uber-powerful PC for video recording as long as you get a video capture card with hardware decoding / encoding. This shifts the bulk of the work off your CPU and on to the card. A 1Ghz machine with about half a gig of RAM would almost certainly be enough, methinks.
Yep. But the cost of buying a card with built in decoder. You might just as well add a little more cash and get a DVD recorder.Starburst said:True, you can't beat having dedicated hardware encoding but perhaps it's an unusual path to take if you are not the sort of person to keep your PC at least vaguely upto date![]()
I've been down that route - sit there for hours waiting for video to be converted to mpeg files, then mess about trying to edit the file, then burn onto a DVD - now I have a Panasonic DVD recorder with a hard drive, and it's all so simple, and my PC isn't "groaning under the weight" of all that processing. (And by the way, it's an Athlon 64 3500+ with 1GB of RAM), but I still notice the extra processor load).unholy1 said:LoL! I must be getting old... P3 still sounds quite powerful enough for me.
You don't have to have an uber-powerful PC for video recording as long as you get a video capture card with hardware decoding / encoding. This shifts the bulk of the work off your CPU and on to the card. A 1Ghz machine with about half a gig of RAM would almost certainly be enough, methinks.
cyberheater said:Yep. But the cost of buying a card with built in decoder. You might just as well add a little more cash and get a DVD recorder.
dAVefaulkner said:There is still no HDD/DVD recorder on the market that has digital audio input - so that you can record the Dolby Digital soundtrack which accompanies films on Sky Movies 1-3. Can this be done with a PC? How?
Just buying the DVDs may work out cheaper!
cyberheater said:Yep. But the cost of buying a card with built in decoder. You might just as well add a little more cash and get a DVD recorder.