Here's a pickle.
I recall reading on one of the forums somewhere that the movie files that are stored on the sky+ harddrive differ in that free-to-air viewing is in a file format that we can grab and take off the Sky box onto a PC for viewing, but the subscription channels have your viewing card details used to encode the movie file and hence we cannot view it on a PC.
Given that we know and can use the format of the file coming off from free-to-air channels...can we reverse the process and take something off our PC, convert it to the same format and then put it on the sky hard-drive and watch it through the sky planner?
Not sure if this is remotely feasible or whether anyone has tried it...but interested in finding out in the least!
Many thanks.
PS : And yes, the files all copied across to the new SKY HD box and I get to watch the mother-in-law drowning with the Lusitania for eternity (or until my HD crashes).