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Using a PVR to record free-to-air Sky channels?

Interceptor posted:
You might want to buy a non-Freesat DVB-S2 PVR since so many free to air channels are not available on the Freesat EPG and recording non-Freesat channels varies between an absolute pain and impossible on Freesat branded equipment.

I'm not sure what the options for that sort of thing are nowadays, Foxsat used to be the go to.

This was precisely my thinking and why I would be looking for a simple hard drive recorder as opposed to a FreeSat recorder. I’ll investigate the DVB-S2 you mention, but when I search PVRs they all seemed to be geared towards home security systems and recording CCTV footage rather than satellite TV.
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Using a PVR to record free-to-air Sky channels?

Ste posted:
Could you not just get a Freesat box with built in PVR functionality and then you could record / watch multiple channels at the same time?

I could, yes, but as @Interceptor rightly says FreeSat doesn’t carry many of the channels that Sky do.
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Using a PVR to record free-to-air Sky channels?

I’ve recently cancelled my Sky subscription and would like to know if I could record the free-to-air channels onto a PVR or other such hard drive recorder.

I understand I wouldn’t be able to switch channels while recording, as you can with a Sky subscription, but in principal would this be possible by coming out of the Sky box and into the PVR and recording the selected Sky channel?

Thanks in advance.