How do you connect a sky plus box to your computer?

Answers: There are a few ways to connect from your Sky box to a PC TV card:

Aerial: The most straightforward way is to help yourself to a feed from one of the Sky box RF output receiver feeds and use standard mast co-ax cable to connect to the input of a TV card. Note that you'll need a TV card that supports an 'analogue' input, as this is what's sent from the Sky box satellite dish socket. Some PC TV receivers are digital (DVB-T) with the sole purpose, so won't work. Analogue cards are getting more rare, so consider looking for a dual digital and analogue card, such as one from the Hauppauge HVR breadth - we recommend either the Hauppauge HVR1100 (PCI card) or Win-TV HVR900 (USB).

S-Video: If you're looking for slightly better standard than using the modulated output of a Sky box and aerial cable, later you can consider using S-video. Look for a TV card with an S-Video input. If you entail S-Video cables, or a SCART-to-Svideo converter. Note that an S-video connect with the sole purpose handles video, so you'll involve to connect an audio feed too (from the phono outputs on your Sky box to your PC soundcard).

Video sender: If you don't fancy the cable run, consider getting a video-sender to transport output wirelessly. AV senders are available from Argos and Maplin. Note that these normally transmit to a SCART socket, so you may stipulation a RF modulator to convert an AV Sender's output from SCART to co-ax aerial input