Copy from Sky Q box to Panasonic DVD recorder

[Chodley]

Possibly. It's flawless digital copies they care about these days though.

[rob68]

You would have thought that the composite AV output on Sky Q mini box wouldn't have copy protection on it these days. Nobody is going to copy stuff this way to sell it. Most of us would just like a way to copy something for our own personal use to be able to watch, even in SD when it's inevitably removed from Sky Channels. 

[Chodley]

I agree although they absolutely do not want you copying things for your own personal use, neither do we have any right to do so even though VHS gave us the impression it was allowed.  They want you to need to pay for it again (or sit through ads) and as the content rights owners, that is a legitimate legal and commmercial attitude to adopt, even though it seems properly humbug. Especially if it's something that is unlikely to ever be re-broadcast such as a family member on the news or something. A smartphone on a tripod is probably better than composite at that point though 😆

The only exception to this is if you buy a permanent right to a copy of the media like a bluray and how many of us do that these days? (confession: I love a decent 4K bluray)

[maccafan1]

I have used the system to record a couple of things and the quality is slightly better than Sky+HD but now a couple of chanels used to record from have gone from Sky so looking at setting my DVD Recorder to receive Freeview which have never done so can then use that to record to DVD Recorder, I record Beatles things which have done since 1987