Recording a TV programme onto a DVD

[Explorer-8]

I have got Sky+, but I don't think there is any way of permanently saving my Sky "saved programmes" onto a DVD - is there?

I will be watching a BBC programme which should be shown on their website. Has anybody ever saved a programme from the BBC website onto their computer and then copied it onto a DVD? Is it possible?

My DVD recorder is too complicated to use that. I haven't recorded anything directly onto DVD yet.

[Ethel]

You can download from Sky+ to your dvd recorder that is connected to it and the television.

But surely your dvd recorder has a tv guide that you operate in a similar way to Sky? Just make sure there is a blank dvd in the recorder and programme it to record.

[VHG]

I record programmes from my Sky+ box direct to DVD all the time.

I agree that DVD recorders can be complicated, the instructions for my Panasonic were so complicated I gave up on them (and I am pretty good when it comes to techncial stuff)

In simple terms you connect your Sky+ box to your DVD recorder with a Scart socket.

You then set the "channel" on your DVD recorder so it is "seeing" what is coming in on the Scart lead from the Sky+ box (this is often a channel like AV2 or EX2).

You place a blank DVD disk in the DVD recorder.

You then press "play" on the Sky+ box to show the program and record on the DVD recorder.

Whatever is "playing" on the Sky+ box should now be recorded onto the DVD disk.

[Explorer-8]

Thanks. I will experiment with something I have already got recorded on Sky+. I do have a scart lead from the Sky box connected to the DVD player.