RE: Sky+160

["Neil Ball" <neilball@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Thomson 160 box gives you the full 160gb capacity. The new V3 standard
plus boxes also have a 160gb disk but 40gb is reserved for use by Sky
leaving 80gb for user recording. Sky are not using this reserved space yet
so exactly how it will be used is still open for debate. A slip up with
recent software updates left a number of Thomson V3 users with the full
160gb available for a while until Sky "fixed" the problem with
another
software download! No one seems to have found a way to unlock this 40gb
manually yet AFAIK.



Neil B.



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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Malcolm Surgenor
Sent: 10 January 2006 11:51
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Sky+160



When I got my replacement Pace box (v3?) before Christmas I was told that
"40 Hours is reserved for the new Sky 'On-Demand' TV service due for
launch
later in 2006". Not sure what 40 hours equates to in gb (nor have I
had time
to go off and investigate what 'on-demand' is!  :-) )



Malcolm

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