Anyone capture Sky/Sky+ with a tv card?

[Gavin01]

If so how do you go about it?

I have some bits i would like archived from my sky+box and the £25 card i bought,gets a okish picture but no sound.....

[M@rtin]

I use the svideo output from the Sky+ box, plus the red/white audio outputs going into my soundcard line in. Seems to work OK...

[wysinawyg]

Its in a different room (which our landlord thoughtfully pre-cabled with a coax socket linked to the living room) so it runs straight out on coax. Not ideal, but certainly not a bad picture and has sound too :)

[Anthony.S]

I do the same as M@rtin and capture using a Hauppauge pvr-250. Top quality.

[Gavin01]

I used a pvr 250 and wasnt impressed with it....

Any others?

[Lee Brown]

Any others?

I use a Sapphire Theatrix 550 via composite. The quality is fairly good, but would be even better with svideo from Sky+ I imagine.

[Just]

I found that using a DVD recorder and then editing/archiving to the PC from the DVD disc was another way of doing it.

[nick1977]

I've just decided to go for an xtream 7230 (search on ebay to see what it is). It cost £129.99 and lets you input\output RGB, S-Video, or composite and will input\output DV. I hope to use this to archive my Sky+ stuff to DVD using the RGB in and convert to DV. I know there will be a marginal quality loss doing this, but I'm hoping it will be better than the WinTV composite input I've been using up to now!
Will post back when I have tried it if anyone is interested.

Nick

[Gavin01]

I found that using a DVD recorder and then editing/archiving to the PC from the DVD disc was another way of doing it.



Hmm didnt think of that, could be a good idea:) i like it......could i burn to dvd recorder then put the dvd in pc and convert to divx ?

Would be one way of getting stuff of sky and also having a great new toy...

A new pvr 250 costs around £90 i think? im sure i seen cheap dvd recorders around for that which would be more flexible....

Thanks for that idea ill have a think:D

[Just]

No probs, I use it to take stuff off Sky+ and then use a few tools on the PC to bring things together and edit them down tight (eg ads etc).

It's horses for courses - I decided to use a DVD recorder as all of my kit is in a cupboard and getting a connection to the PC wasn't going to happen anyway. It also means I can set it recording, dump various programmes on it and edit away later on while deleting from Sky+ there and then.

It also means I can record something to DVD quickly for someone else to watch or keep without a load of hassle at the PC.