Stu.H

Evening folks


Just ordered Sky HD, to be installed on 23rd December, with their 20mb broadband and phone line.

What I was wondering is, how does the storage part of it work?
Is it a Linux based O/S and can I SSH/FTP into it?
Also can it be connected to a LAN so I can access the share to move recorded programs around?

Any cool things you can do with it? Already know about the ITV HD manual channel add [cheers Tiff]

Cheers in advance

dojj

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if you record hd stuff, it can take upto 4 times the space
if you record just normal stuff you get twice the storage capacity of normaly sky+

so you can get upto 80 hours or as little as 20 hours

Fiddy

Dont really know the ins and outs, but you wont regret it, its really good. ive added ITVHD aswell

P_is_for_Paul

I dunno WTF you just said, but it sounds sexy

Stu.H

LOL

Its just a way to get to the "guts" of a device and view the internal filestructure, get to the HD content in this case..

I'll do some reading, but thought someone on here would have already violated it

cfoster

What package did you go for mate and how much are you paying a month? Looking into changing to Sky next month but weighing the costs up!

Stu.H

i went for the basic hd with another set of channels (food channels for the missus +Ł1) 20mb broadband and a phone line

Already had a phone line, but worked out a lot cheaper to have everything swapped..

Bill will be Ł50 a month, and cost me around Ł115 for all the installation, but I get Ł50 M&S vouchers for the hassle...

Deal clincher for me was that virgin have only around 6 hd channels, went round my mates last night and the upscaling of normal channels is V good....

nthorpey

relativly easy to get to the HDD but actually doing anything with the files is impossible as its all encyptred, it is possible to gain more storage space by turning off the anytime TV feature

220tel

if you do this through quidco you get 100-00 cash back and 50-00 of m+s vouchers
i got the hd box free and 30-00 quid to install

cfoster

ah cool thats worth knowing cheers

cossiestu

Can always rig it up to a recordable DVD player and copy your recordings onto a disc...

The Rapid 1

Do you or can you actually regain this space JUST by turning off anytime tv, thought it was still reserved space, didnt see my free space in my planner go up when turning mine off ?

You can copy the recordings to a pc with a program "copy +" I think its called, but cant do anything with them only store or transfer them to a different drive, pc dont know what to do with them and are encoded, and need the card to watch them, even if you cancell your subscription to a channel you have recordings of you will not be able to view them on the sky box .

Any more input on the subject appreciated as always good to get something extra lol, so on that note how do you get the ITV HD .

OK now added ITV HD, easy enough lol, Google was my friend .


Steve

SS1

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I use this site for virgin-cable problems

Have a look there's some very clever people on there

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/

Fil

Has to be said itvs HD content is very poor

Tuesday 15th December
7.30pm Grimefighters
9pm Robson Green's Wild Swimming Adventure
Thursday 17th December
7.30pm River Monsters
9pm The Bill
10.35pm The Nutty Professor
Friday 18th December
10.35pm Nutty Professor II: The Klumps


Im mean grimefighters ffs



On another note, people with HD sky boxes, what digital audio conections are on the back of it please?

daviddunlop83

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When i turned off the anytime tv i didnt get any more space, as far as i thought it is still reserved and wastes space if you turn the anytime off. Not 100% sure tho

Porkie

iTrader: (1)

Content awful on ITVHD

they do occasionally have big footy games on ther though. and ITV's standard picture for footy is soooooooooo poor so its nice to use it.



As for outputs, I use optical. we will look to see if there are any others.

Fil

no need opticals fine, a mate asked me last night, as hes getting it. And ive got an old 5.1 amp, with optical, thats gathering dust, just didnt want to give it to him and its no good!