topic Re: Copying recording in Sky+

Copying recording

EthelLaycock — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:51:35 GMT

I have bought a Panasonic DVD-EX97 recorder to copy recording from my Sky+ HD box. The recordings are mainly in SD. I cannot get anything to sopy. Do I need to buy a HDMI to Scart converter, if so can anyone recomend a particaler model. Any help would be much appreciated

Re: Copying recording

Mark39 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:01:19 GMT

Check your user manual, but so far as I can see, this recorder has no input sockets. It can't therefore be connected to any external device, such as your Sky box.

Re: Copying recording

nigea99 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:05:04 GMT

@EthelLaycock wrote:

I have bought a Panasonic DVD-EX97 recorder to copy recording from my Sky+ HD box. The recordings are mainly in SD. I cannot get anything to sopy. Do I need to buy a HDMI to Scart converter, if so can anyone recomend a particaler model. Any help would be much appreciated

hi @EthelLaycock

I think, like my Panasonic Blu-ray recorder that you can no longer record from an external source on the EX97 (unlike previous models)

You can only record from the inbuilt Freeview Tuner

Re: Copying recording

SKY1992bf — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:11:43 GMT

@EthelLaycock Also note copying content is also against terms and conditions of your sky contract

Re: Copying recording

TimmyBGood — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 17:13:48 GMT

@EthelLaycock

That's specifically a Freeview recorder (from nearly a decade ago) capturing input from its own digital tuner when connected to a terrestrial aerial. The HDMI port is output-only to get video to a television set, so there isn't any adapter which is going to help you.

https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/panasonic-dmr-ex97

Re: Copying recording

oj01 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:46:09 GMT

@SKY1992bf wrote:
@EthelLaycock Also note copying content is also against terms and conditions of your sky contract

Not sure how that can be the case when Copy (to VHS or DVD) is a built-in feature of the Sky+HD Box

Re: Copying recording

EthelLaycock — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:36:43 GMT

Thank you all for your replies. You are correct that the Panasonic recors from its integraed freeview system. i was thiking I neede to buy a HDMI to scart converter. However i have just phoned the Panasonic and their advice is to buy USB 2.0 hard drive with its own power supply and ac adapter, Anybody has any thoughts of which product i might buy. The agent says i can copy the recoding from my sky box and then I can transfer the recoding on the hard drive to the panasonic dvd recorder. Thanks for eveyone who has shared their thoughts

Re: Copying recording

Annie+UK — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:20:05 GMT

@oj01 wrote:

@SKY1992bf wrote:

@EthelLaycock Also note copying content is also against terms and conditions of your sky contract

Not sure how that can be the case when Copy (to VHS or DVD) is a built-in feature of the Sky+HD Box

For temporary storage and not long time archiving, most people think because the recorded it they then own the content which is not correct

Re: Copying recording

BenJoBanjo — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:47:11 GMT

@EthelLaycock wrote:
Thank you all for your replies. You are correct that the Panasonic recors from its integraed freeview system. i was thiking I neede to buy a HDMI to scart converter. However i have just phoned the Panasonic and their advice is to buy USB 2.0 hard drive with its own power supply and ac adapter, Anybody has any thoughts of which product i might buy. The agent says i can copy the recoding from my sky box and then I can transfer the recoding on the hard drive to the panasonic dvd recorder. Thanks for eveyone who has shared their thoughts

You have been told incorrect information by Panasonic. You cannot just buy a USB 2.0 hard drive, connect it to a Sky+ box and copy recordings across. It's just not possible.

Re: Copying recording

Mark39 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:56:19 GMT

@EthelLaycock I suspect Panasonic don't how Sky boxes work, particularly the legacy Sky+ boxes (no reason why they should).

The only way you can copy to a DVD recorder is by connecting your Sky box via a scart or composite video/audio sockets. That means having a DVD recorder with scart or analogue input,sockets. You can then copy in SD quality and in real time.

Re: Copying recording

SKY1992bf — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:33:03 GMT

@oj01 wrote:
@SKY1992bf wrote:
@EthelLaycock Also note copying content is also against terms and conditions of your sky contract
Not sure how that can be the case when Copy (to VHS or DVD) is a built-in feature of the Sky+HD Box

@oj01 I refer you to section 9 of the terms and conditions you yourself have agreed to

https://static.skyassets.com/contentstack/assets/blt7f2b03fd02c7fe60/bltf8420cdb91427db1/6604390f6f2eed8145c2fe1e/download?disposition=inline

Re: Copying recording

oj01 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:01:38 GMT

@SKY1992bf wrote:
@oj01 wrote:
@SKY1992bf wrote:
@EthelLaycock Also note copying content is also against terms and conditions of your sky contract
Not sure how that can be the case when Copy (to VHS or DVD) is a built-in feature of the Sky+HD Box
@oj01 I refer you to section 9 of the terms and conditions you yourself have agreed to

https://static.skyassets.com/contentstack/assets/blt7f2b03fd02c7fe60/bltf8420cdb91427db1/6604390f6f2eed8145c2fe1e/download?disposition=inline

"You must not do (or allow to be done) any of the following:

(i) copy (except as permitted under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (“Act”), as amended from

time to time), redistribute or relay any of the Channels or any Additional TV Services or any part of them, or

otherwise deal with the Channels or any Additional TV Services or any part of them other than as permitted

by the Act. The exceptions in the Act are limited and you must make sure that you are legally entitled to rely

on one of them; or"

I'm assuming then that the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows for copying for personal use otherwise the box would never have been designed with that feature included.

Re: Copying recording

TimmyBGood — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:48:24 GMT

@SKY1992bf

https://www.sky.com/help/articles/copying-programmes-to-dvd

I guess the point was with SCART output there was no effective way to prevent this, so Sky chose to make it a feature.

Re: Copying recording

SKY1992bf — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:54:44 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:
@SKY1992bf

https://www.sky.com/help/articles/copying-programmes-to-dvd

I guess the point was with SCART output there was no effective way to prevent this, so Sky chose to make it a feature.

@TimmyBGood interesting, but was only quoting what was in the community guidelines and full terms and conditions but on double checking the terms today that reference seems to have been removed