Saving Movies From Terrestrial TV

[ShellyK2024]

Does anyone else experience this? When  i add a movies to my playlist from a terrestrial tv station sky glass adds it from sky store instead, therefore asking me to pay for a movie that is free on a main tv channel. Its driving me nuts, it happens sll the time. Surely sky glass csn tell if the movie im adding is from a terrestrial channel. Any ideas on how i stop this happening? Ive had so many problems with sky glass but this is the final straw! 

[MarkGoldsmith · Accepted solution]

The film would only be available if that free Tv channel either has the on-demand rights for it on their own catch up service or Sky has a legal agreement in place to take a cloud recording of that film.

in quite a lot of situations films are available on multiple on-demand platforms so when you open the film on from your playlist, scroll down to Available Now rail and it will display all the on-demand apps the film is available on. Typically if the film is on Sky Store or Sky Cinema it defaults to that rather than say IPlayer or ITV X, as these typically only have films for a very limited time. 

[ShellyK2024]

Oh, thank you for explaining. Does that mean that sky glass won't let me record any film that fits those peramiters? The film is on ITV and I'm out so really wanted to record it. It sort of makes paying for sky pointless if it's not possible to record films available on terrestrial channels under those circumstances. I have been with sky since the day it launched and pay a lot of money for the service, it's quite upsetting that this is the case, if itv is allowed to schedule these films (I guess they have to pay to do so) it seems really unfair that sky wont allow its users to record them  

[MarkGoldsmith]

Ultimately this is the way the TV industry is going with streaming.

Production companies and broadcasters are taking back ownership of content so either want people to watch live or via their own on-demand stream apps. As this is the only way for them to either make decent advertising revenue or support the drop in ad revenue ( if you then subscribe to premium ad-free tiers of the apps).

It all depends on the film and if that film will be available on ITV X. With regards to films the Sky streaming platform isn't that great unless you also have subscriptions to the likes of Sky cinema or paramount +, Disney + etc and thus subsequently have access to the back catalogue included on those services.

[Mister_Dalek]

@ShellyK2024 

For situations such as those you describe, have you got an aerial attached to your TV? 
Most modern smart TV's have Freeview or free-to-air tuners built in. This will get you all the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 , 5, etc channels for free. Many TVs also have built-in means of recording these channels.

I have two TV's - a Panasonic and a Samsung. Both allow me to plug in a simple USB flash drive (about £20 for 256Gb) and I can set recordings from the Freeview EPG. These recordings (including films) can be played back at any time I like and I can fast forward through the ads. I can even set it up to be constantly recording what I'm watching so I can do instant rewind like you can do on Sky Q. 
All of this is part of the TV operating system. There's no charge, other than for the USB flash drive. If you watch a lot from the main free to air channels then it might be worth considering. 

**EDIT 

Sorry - just realised you have a Glass TV, not a smart TV, so this won't apply. Please ignore me.