Movies from Sky+ box to laptop

[lacroupade]

I know its feasible and there are various ways of doing it, but just wanted to know if anyone here has had hands-on experience of dumping a movie from Sky+ box to laptop.....I'm guessing I need a PCMCIA TV card or similar but as its only one hard-to-find film I didn't really want to go to that expense unless I have to....

[kitchenman]

capture card should do it

I have virgin cable recorder box, what is the movie, I may be able to get it for you.

[R1cho]

what film is it?

[lacroupade]

I've got the film on my Sky+ box - its Black Sky, really amazing film about the first private space flight by Bert Rutans team.....excellent watch and I wanted to put it on DVD for my dad (he's a luddite LOL). Been shown on Discovery a few times but can't find the usual torrent or I'd get it that way.

[R1cho]

http://www.sumotorrent.com/en/detail...ceshipOne.html

[clivvy]

Originally Posted by R1cho

http://www.sumotorrent.com/en/detail...ceshipOne.html

good old Torrents!

[briggie]

http://btjunkie.org/

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by briggie

http://btjunkie.org/

Can't get Black Sky to work there either, so downloading Alice in Wonderland cos I deleted it before her indoors got to watch it.

does this site throttle you at all?

And I'm a bit concerned about this site TBH....it talks about bittorrent being a 'peer to peer' service, when the whole point of torrent technology is that it ISN'T! Limewire and other such shite services were P2P but torrent doesn't normally work that way.....and before you ask 'so what', P2P has two major disadvantages....(i) the fact you are downloading one file from one source makes it easy for the host to infect it, and (ii) it makes it a piece of piss for anyone to track and prove your downloading.....call me paranoid but.....

[briggie]

Originally Posted by lacroupade

Can't get Black Sky to work there either, so downloading Alice in Wonderland cos I deleted it before her indoors got to watch it.

does this site throttle you at all?

you dont have to be a member , ive had no problems with it ..... i use u torrent with it

mind you i mainly use it for audie files .... ie albums that i just happen to like and cant be arsed paying for them

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by briggie

you dont have to be a member , ive had no problems with it ..... i use u torrent with it

mind you i mainly use it for audie files .... ie albums that i just happen to like and cant be arsed paying for them

read the bit I added below though.....it worries me a bit TBH.

[briggie]

ive downloaded dozens of albums ( purely for research purposes ) ..... and have no probs , but thats not to say you will , im not a tinternet eggspurt , i guess you try it and see , ive never downloaded video files tho , so please let me know if its ok

i think you look at the colour of the bar ... if its green its ok , red is unsafe

but .... as soon as its finished downloading , stop the file ..... then extract contents

[briggie]

Originally Posted by lacroupade

Can't get Black Sky to work there either, so downloading Alice in Wonderland cos I deleted it before her indoors got to watch it.

does this site throttle you at all?

And I'm a bit concerned about this site TBH....it talks about bittorrent being a 'peer to peer' service, when the whole point of torrent technology is that it ISN'T! Limewire and other such shite services were P2P but torrent doesn't normally work that way.....and before you ask 'so what', P2P has two major disadvantages....(i) the fact you are downloading one file from one source makes it easy for the host to infect it, and (ii) it makes it a piece of piss for anyone to track and prove your downloading.....call me paranoid but.....

clive will explain further no doubt , but as far as i understand the files are spread amongst loads of different seeds , making it hard to track because each seed only holds a part of the file ..... summat like that anyway , im sure clive will expand

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by briggie

clive will explain further no doubt , but as far as i understand the files are spread amongst loads of different seeds , making it hard to track because each seed only holds a part of the file ..... summat like that anyway , im sure clive will expand

no thats exactly right, which is why I'm puzzled when they are talking about P2P cos its totally different. Oh well, I'll see what the end product is like!