Its not possible to record a channel while watching another with sky as there is only one output from the digi box. to get around this problem i'd suggest upgrading to sky+ as you can ditch the old videos as all tv programs can be stored on the digi box's hard drive while watching other programs.
Paul Arowheed
November 2005
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