Sky+ Box, No subscription - External recording?

[mccann]

Hi,

I am a novice so please be kind :-)

I live in the Netherlands and recently bought a Sky+ box at a great price. I know, to use the recording functionality can only be done by paying a basic subscription to Sky. I'm receiving all the necessary free to air channels (I have no card). I was wondering:

I have a multimedia player with storage, I have the option to buy a tuner as an accessory to record onto it. The tuner supports DVB-T/ATSC scheduled recording (EPG). Would it be possible to hook up this external tuner with the Sky+ box? The Tuner itself has a coax connection. I want to try and avoid dishing out for a subscription/another storage device when I have nearly everything already.

Any suggesstions would be great.

Thanks,

Jonathan.

 

[Topper]

Do you mean by connecting and enabling the RF2 out connection direct to the DVB-T Tuner?
If so you could not get the EPG and would have to manually set the channel on the sky box and set the time on the Tuner but assuming your DVB-T tuner can record from external sources like mine does I see no reason why not although it is not a very neat solution and you would lose all the benefit of sky +

 

[Robbo]

The Sky+ box is doesn't have the Sky+ capability without a card anyway.

Yes, you should be able to do it using the rf out and feeding into the TV aerial in of a receiver.

A better option I think would be to get a generic FTA satellite receiver with PVR functionality. A Technomate 5200 or the Clarke Tech equivalent for example. Or even a Freesat PVR.

 

[mccann]

Thanks for your replies. So it seems to me that the most cost effective solution would be to purchase a (for example) technomate and hook up the external storage multimedia player via USB and record away!

Correct??