Sky Q to laptop

It might be available on iPlayer in which case easiest option would be to grab it after the event with get_iplayer (linux and windows).  A lot of stuff is 1080p and you can get just about everything else in 720p or SD.

Looking at the iplayer webpage S4C is listed as a channel so I reckon your chances of getting it the next day are pretty good. Record it anyway – there are ways to get it off the Sky Q box, all a bit clunky though.

If you need help with get_iplayer post back.

BTW – get_iplayer will download it and save as an MP4 file (H264 video with AAC audio) – there are a number of free programs such as DVDFlick which will allow you to burn it as Video DVD)

Here’s how I would go

HDMI Spliiter to TV and video converter (while you perform this the TV needs to be on the required channel at the same time as the Video converting-on the PC)

Splitter to TV and Video Converter video converter to PC Video to PC

On recording (capture) with Video to PC the Capture Device settings are NTSC (default) need to be changed to Pal, once recorded you select Produce/Create File (choose output format)

You could record the program on SkyQ and perform the above anytime from SkyQ

The above are mainly guide lines, cheaper or better could be found.

Get_iplayer is the way to go, on your lap top. It’s a simple one step process that spits out an mp4 iirc.

That way you can share it about to all that want it. Easiest way would be upload to a cloud account, Google,  ms, Dropbox etc. But given the content will be copyright, I’d store a copy in my usual cloud of choice. But ad also use Mega to actually share it.

The recipients don’t need mega, but upload it there, then generate a url, and text /email / im,  the url link to the recipients.

Mega has a free 50gb upload limit. So you’ll be more than cope.

Don’t try the hard, long winded way of getting of a sky box. It will mean trying to tap I’m to the box, usually means low definition, then you’ll need to record it in real time (or at least shifted time) . Think of the old recording of a music tape method.

I copied 100s of kids films of sky in the early to mid 2000, in that manner. Dvd recorder attached to the start out of the sky box. Each night I’d have to hit play on the sky box the record on the dvd recorder.

2 weeks ago I binned the dvds, about 5 or 6 large spindles, and probably months of work. I had then on a couple of hdds back in the day too, (ad that was why u was recording them off the sky box, to put on the pc) bit I know I’ve reformatted Atleast one of the hdds. Not sure where the others are now.

Long story short. Get_iplayer. Only used it about 3 times. But it’s the way to go.

Nice one Dwynne: the biter, bitten. I hate all that Nationalist krap as well, there are just so many Nazis atm flaunting the cross of St. George, Red Dragon, Scottish Saltire and the Union Flag. They think they represent a proportion of the people, when all they really represent is the results of inadequate personalities and a poor self-image that has to hide behind a flag with fellow nutters. My SIL had a White Dragon in the car, across the parcel shelf: “It’s the Saxon Dragon.” I pointed out that his family name meant that he was probably of Jewish descent, which he confirmed and was proud of. I further said that the Saxons mostly originated in Germany and Denmark, and that there was a Saxon regiment in charge at Büchenwald concentration camp in WWII.* So Saxons were probably responsible for the torture and death of many Jews. His eyes began to glaze over when I told him that Saxons and Angles had probably fought and killed my ancestors, and taken their lands.

The flag is not in his car anymore… I also advised him to try driving through Wales with the flag showing, then park up and leave it.

*I know this because my German ex-FIL was a camp guard at Bergen-Belsen. I forgot the German for ‘misbegotten SOB’ so I had to say FIL.

Duke I’ve read that book twice – a masterpiece imho – it is a real shame that towards the end of the war a lot of the papers that he used as reference for the earlier war years were destroyed (by ze Nazis) but none the less it is a really good read. Some of the more recent works (e.g Beevor’s WW2 book) have some more detail which is not a criticism of Shirer, just a fact that a lot of Soviet archives were unavailable when he (Shirer) wrote and updated his work.

Trumps speach today in poland seems to be taken place right from the Hitler play book of points to hit in a nationalist speach.

I was reading Mein Kampf while the US election was on. And the similarities with the atmosphere with the American Right public, and what Trump was “playing to” , to Hitlers world views in the book, I found quite stark.

Especially as he was the better choice. Or rather the more sane and less corrupt of the two on offer last year.

No need to be so touchy BL – reread my post.

I was not implying that Brexit voters were Nazi-like, I was just saying that freedom from foreign bureaucracy was a strong element of both the 1930s Germans portrayed in Heimat and the British politicians who pushed for Brexit.

Heimat in fact portrays all the ‘sorts’ of people you mention plus others including Jews and corrupt German industrialists. As it has received critical acclaim in Germany I would guess that the old generation found a lot in the series that resonated with them, but not necessarily either factual or unbiased:

“When you show the 1930s as a golden age of prosperity and excitement in the German countryside, when you are shown the Germans as victims of the war, then you inevitably find yourself asking: But what about the other side? What about Auschwitz? Where is the director’s moral judgment? To which the color filters insistently reply: ‘Remember, remember, this is a film about what Germans remember. Some things they remember in full color. Some in sepia. Others they prefer to forget. Memory is selective. Memory is partial. Memory is amoral. – Heimat wiki”

Hitler and that time in Germany (and the world) is a fascinating time, and there is alot of similarities today.

Putting the “bad” stuff to one side, the economic recovery of Germany always fascinated me. In such a short time, to go from nothing, to one on the best places, free of debt, strong economy, no army, to well.., strong education, the top In sciences.

When you here the muttering of the West/banks started the war to undermined what Hitler had implemented, sometime you have to think there could be something in it. Especially looking at the world today, and the constant fight of the oil/gas, gold/petro dollar.

He did have quite a bit of free labour, so that is always nice on the budget, but putting that aside, it is a minor miracle way happened from 33-8.

Also the whole poland thing isn’t as straight cut as the history books make out, (Victors get to write it etc). The Polish was persecuting and killing alot of Germans on the run up to their invasion. So I think alot of what later went on, was just sadistic revenge.

When people ask the question, what two people would you like to have to dinner. Churchill and Hitler, for me all day long. I’d love to here the first hand accounts, of what actually went on.

Also I’d like to add jesus to that list, just to see if he turned up! If he did I’d have a lot to think about.  also he would make a good referee between the other two.