topic Re: Puck & DVD recorder in Sky Stream

Puck & DVD recorder

JN130942 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:07:57 GMT

Simple question.

I'm about to consider a new Sky contract possibly upgrading from SKY+ to Stream.

Can I connect my DVD recorder to the puck ?

Alternatively, could I record the stream via my smart TV?

Many thanks.

Re: Puck & DVD recorder

MarkGoldsmith — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:26:44 GMT

@JN130942 wrote:
Simple question.
I'm about to consider a new Sky contract possibly upgrading from SKY+ to Stream.
Can I connect my DVD recorder to the puck ?
Alternatively, could I record the stream via my smart TV?
Many thanks.

You can't record from a stream puck, everything is streamed online via the internet.

The puck only has an HDMI port allowing you to connect it to a TV.

Re: Puck & DVD recorder

TimmyBGood — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 09:18:05 GMT

@JN130942

DVD recorders are essentially obsolete (which would be why no-one has manufactured such hardware for many years) : the HDMI standard was specifically created with embedded encryption to defeat them.

Recording to USB on a smart television is only possible for Freeview content received by the aerial and DTTV tuner built into the television set itself.

Re: Puck & DVD recorder

JN130942 — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 09:38:11 GMT

Does the fact that my DVD recorder has a hard drive make any difference?

Re: Puck & DVD recorder

Padam_Padam — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 09:44:21 GMT

@JN130942 wrote:
Does the fact that my DVD recorder has a hard drive make any difference?

No. You simply cannot make legal recordings of streamed copyrighted material over HDMI, be it onto a hard drive or optical disc.

Re: Puck & DVD recorder

TimmyBGood — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:35:31 GMT

@JN130942

Presumably you've been using the SCART connection out of the back of the Sky+ hardware to the recorder: that's a connection technology which is now almost half a century old. Modern devices just don't use it any more as it cannot carry high definition content and (from the point of view of the rights owners) can't be protected adequately from copying hardware.

Re: Puck & DVD recorder

SAVVYSCLUTTER — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 18:03:04 GMT

Buy an HDMI-to-AV or HDMI-to-SCART converter with HDCP.

Re: Puck & DVD recorder

TimmyBGood — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 20:58:44 GMT

@SAVVYSCLUTTER wrote:

Buy an HDMI-to-AV or HDMI-to-SCART converter with HDCP.

I'm not aware that any such hardware exits: a manufacturer would never be granted licences by the relevant bodies.

Adapters to SCART don't carry HDCP: it isn't relevant to the SCART connection and the quality loss is so great that rights owners tolerate such things (not that they could prevent them anyway)

Re: Puck & DVD recorder

JN130942 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:58:17 GMT

To SAVVYSCLUTTER. Thanks for that suggestion. Since posting I've renewed my Skyplus contract. Wife prefers that porgramme guide & via a triac we can watch both sky & terrestrial in the kitchen as well as the lounge. If she sees a film she wants to keep we can record to disc or on the hard drive. Confirmed luddites!!