All I was thinking of doing was doing the video capture to the AV port on the back of the box (i.e. on the TV side), not going into the depths of the thing or trying to take it straight off the LNB.

The Sky+ box actually has a copy function, which I've not used yet, but appears to generate a list of programs for copying to a VCR. Some programs are apparently copy protected and won't work with this function.

We shall see

As a separate note, I understand that the Sky+ box contains an industry standard hard drive because I've seen an article about upgrading it to 250M (which is the limit of the Sky firmware). I've not played with this as I don't want to invalidate the warrenty on the box - but would guess that it's all a proprietary standard - not PC compatible!

Steve