Quote ="Asgardian13"What about recording, though? When the Wire are on I always record the game on my hard disk DVD recorder, then , if it's a good match, burn it to DVD to keep, and erase the hard disk copy to free up space. As I understand it I can record HD to a Sky Plus HD box, but can I then transfer an HD recording to a (non HD) DVD recorder, or direct to a DVD? If not, does this mean that Wire games I'd have to watch and record on normal Sky, thus meaning only non-Wire games would I get the HD benefit? Or I'd have to keep it on the Sky Plus box forever?'"
You can record a Warrington game thats being broadcast in HD direct to your dvd recorder but it will be downscaled to standard definition (it will be slighlty better than a normal SD picture), their arn`t any dvd recorders at the moment that support recording HD direct from one HD platform like a Sky HD box to a dvd recorder, i can`t see it happening in the near future either. It will probably only happen when HD is standard in every household and that will take some time and even then their is no guarentee, the closest at the moment are the Panasonic DMR BS750 and BS850 bluray recorders but they don`t have HDMI in, i think this maybe something to do with sky where they have encrypted the feed to stop people distributing their HD content and to try and get more people to buy HD.
Its no problem recording the HD game to your sky HD box which will obviously play back in HD, what i do is record the odd game of ours to the HD box and at the same time have it recording to the dvd recorder just incase its a good game that i want to put on disc.
You wouldn`t fit a full HD recording onto a stndard 4.7GB dvd disc anyway, it would have to go onto a bluray disc which as you already probably know they are expensive to buy at the min.
