Sky+ box full (instant rewind)

[Stu]

OK many apologies for asking you guys instead of customer services or such like but anyway.
I have my Sky+ box set to automatically manage recordings, I have a few programs on series link and am happy for the old recordings to be deleted whether I've watched them or not, I use the keep function for stuff I want to ..... keep
My problem is that with my box always full, I never get to use the pause or instant rewind when I'm watching live TV.
Any recommendations?
TIA

RTFM!

EDIT: No, seriously now...

The Sky+ box (latest generation) comes with a 40Gb hard disk. Tesco direct sell a 1Tb hard disk for £70 or thereabouts. Take the disk out of the external caddy, slap it in the Sky+ box.

Instantly a huge amount more space.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Baph

RTFM!

yeh but no but....what does it say, manually delete some programs? I'd rather have an automatic solution

EDIT: No, seriously now...

The Sky+ box (latest generation) comes with a 40Gb hard disk. Tesco direct sell a 1Tb hard disk for £70 or thereabouts. Take the disk out of the external caddy, slap it in the Sky+ box.

Instantly a huge amount more space.

So it will cope with that? assuming I do it right which is a big assumption. And all it will leave me is loads of TV I'll never watch anyway, the same problem once I reach 1Tb and it'll be harder to find the stuff I do want to watch.

Originally Posted by Stu

some programs? I'd rather have an automatic solution
So it will cope with that? assuming I do it right which is a big assumption. And all it will leave me is loads of TV I'll never watch anyway, the same problem once I reach 1Tb and it'll be harder to find the stuff I do want to watch.

You also haven't considered (or didn't mention) the fact that as a new drive is bigger than the old one, generally speaking, it'll spin faster. If it spins faster, it'll get hotter. It's also likely to be noisier than the old disk.

Remember that the Sky+ keeps the disc almost continuously spinning.

This will then make the Sky+ box's internal fan stay on longer (more often than not this stays on permanently too), not only increasing the wear rate, but also the volume.

What I'm getting at, is that you might as well just manually delete things off it.

[DarrenSV650S]

DVD Recorder ?
Second sky+ box ?

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by Stu

Any recommendations?

www.thepiratebay.org

?

http://isohunt.com/
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[Stu]

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

DVD Recorder ?
Second sky+ box ?

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

www.thepiratebay.org

?

Originally Posted by saoralba

http://isohunt.com/
?

how would either of these allow me to pause and rewind live TV which is all I want to do?

[DarrenSV650S]

Originally Posted by Stu

how would either of these allow me to pause and rewind live TV which is all I want to do?

Stick the cr@p you've got saved on your sky+ box on to a dvd. Or if they are films that you have saved, delete them then download them from one of those sites

[DarrenSV650S]

Originally Posted by Stu

how would either of these allow me to pause and rewind live TV which is all I want to do?

It obviously isn't ALL you want to do otherwise you would just delete the cr@p on your sky+ box. We are trying to help so don't give it the confused look