Recording SKY..?????

[Damien]

Hello all....

I have a Vaio PCG-K215S, and having set our standard VCR to record a TV program last night, my girlfriend suddenly asks me, "Could we connect you're laptop to the Sky box and record programs that way?".....and my reply...."Errrrrrrrr!"...."I'll ask the forum!!"...

So here i am, asking whether it would be possible to connect my laptop and record Sky programs either onto my hard drive or straight to DVD???
I would assume it would probably be better to go to hard drive first, but would this be at all possible?

If any of you think it would be....
a) How would it connect? What type of cable?
b) Would i need some specific software? Is this something that is available?
c) Any idea howe much space it take up? I do have an external hard drive too, giving me 220 Gb of space in total...

Thanks in anticipation...

Damien.

[Damien]

As virtually all of what has been said has gone straight over my head...I think i'm just gonna tell the missus..."It's too complicated!....Stick with the VCR or let me have Sky+..!!!!" :smileygrin:

Thanks for the replies though, at least i know now it's a bit more than my constricted knowledge can handle!

[kee-lo_]

Be quick if you want Sky+, I believe there was a deal where you got it for 1 year at the same price as normal Sky. Might be wrong though.

http://www.sky.com

[nick_pan]

yeh Sky+ does the same thing basically, beside the editing part..
so thats probably a better choice

[kee-lo_]

Nick

How about replacing your sig with a link to that topic?

Yes Sky+ does look nice, but it's not really viable for me, I don't watch much on sky really.