Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

just go a new Amstrad Sky+ box in addition to my V1 Pace box and it
has 2 USB ports, one on the front and one on the back, any use for
them?


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Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

At 08:21:50 on 16/04/2006, Luke Curtis delighted uk.media.tv.sky by announcing:

just go a new Amstrad Sky+ box in addition to my V1 Pace box and it
has 2 USB ports, one on the front and one on the back, any use for
them?

The one on the HD box will allegedly allow the use of external HDDs; perhaps
it's the same for a regular + box?

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:21:50 +0100, Luke Curtis
wrote:

just go a new Amstrad Sky+ box in addition to my V1 Pace box and it
has 2 USB ports, one on the front and one on the back, any use for
them?

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Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

On 16 Apr 2006 08:57:11 GMT, "Alex" wrote:

At 08:21:50 on 16/04/2006, Luke Curtis delighted uk.media.tv.sky by announcing:

just go a new Amstrad Sky+ box in addition to my V1 Pace box and it
has 2 USB ports, one on the front and one on the back, any use for
them?

The one on the HD box will allegedly allow the use of external HDDs; perhaps
it's the same for a regular + box?

Hey that could be good if true. The 160 GB harddrives on the HD box
might sound a lot but high def recording takes up more room.

It would be useful to be able to add disk space.

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:13:44 +0100, SteveL
wrote:

On 16 Apr 2006 08:57:11 GMT, "Alex" wrote:

At 08:21:50 on 16/04/2006, Luke Curtis delighted uk.media.tv.sky by announcing:

just go a new Amstrad Sky+ box in addition to my V1 Pace box and it
has 2 USB ports, one on the front and one on the back, any use for
them?

The one on the HD box will allegedly allow the use of external HDDs; perhaps
it's the same for a regular + box?

Hey that could be good if true. The 160 GB harddrives on the HD box
might sound a lot but high def recording takes up more room.

AFAIK HDTV won't take up much more space as they are going to use the more
efficient MPEG4 compression rather than the current MPEG2.

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Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

At 11:13:44 on 16/04/2006, SteveL delighted uk.media.tv.sky by announcing:

On 16 Apr 2006 08:57:11 GMT, "Alex" wrote:

At 08:21:50 on 16/04/2006, Luke Curtis delighted uk.media.tv.sky by
announcing:

just go a new Amstrad Sky+ box in addition to my V1 Pace box and it
has 2 USB ports, one on the front and one on the back, any use for
them?

The one on the HD box will allegedly allow the use of external HDDs; perhaps
it's the same for a regular + box?

Hey that could be good if true. The 160 GB harddrives on the HD box
might sound a lot but high def recording takes up more room.

Hence the reported 250GB HDD in the HD box (and MP4 algorithms)

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

"Alex" wrote in message
...

Hey that could be good if true. The 160 GB harddrives on the HD box
might sound a lot but high def recording takes up more room.

Hence the reported 250GB HDD in the HD box (and MP4 algorithms)

It's 300gb.
160gb for the consumer
140gb reserved for Sky (so they can download content whilst you sleep)

Loz

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

"Alex" wrote in message
...
At 08:21:50 on 16/04/2006, Luke Curtis delighted uk.media.tv.sky by
announcing:

just go a new Amstrad Sky+ box in addition to my V1 Pace box and it
has 2 USB ports, one on the front and one on the back, any use for
them?

The one on the HD box will allegedly allow the use of external HDDs;
perhaps
it's the same for a regular + box?

I don't think it has been alleged at all.
Some people hope it will - but that's a different thing.

HDD expansion is more likely through the SATA port - More likely than USB as
HDD is the only use of such a port, so why put one on if you don't intend to
use?

Loz

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

On 16 Apr 2006 11:41:04 GMT, "Alex" wrote:

At 11:13:44 on 16/04/2006, SteveL delighted uk.media.tv.sky by announcing:

On 16 Apr 2006 08:57:11 GMT, "Alex" wrote:

At 08:21:50 on 16/04/2006, Luke Curtis delighted uk.media.tv.sky by
announcing:

just go a new Amstrad Sky+ box in addition to my V1 Pace box and it
has 2 USB ports, one on the front and one on the back, any use for
them?

The one on the HD box will allegedly allow the use of external HDDs; perhaps
it's the same for a regular + box?

Hey that could be good if true. The 160 GB harddrives on the HD box
might sound a lot but high def recording takes up more room.

Hence the reported 250GB HDD in the HD box (and MP4 algorithms)

Hmm, I was told 160 when I ordered it. I wasn't aware of the MP4
either.

Thanks.

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

At 13:18:45 on 16/04/2006, loz delighted uk.media.tv.sky by announcing:


"Alex" wrote in message
...
At 08:21:50 on 16/04/2006, Luke Curtis delighted uk.media.tv.sky by
announcing:

just go a new Amstrad Sky+ box in addition to my V1 Pace box and it
has 2 USB ports, one on the front and one on the back, any use for
them?

The one on the HD box will allegedly allow the use of external HDDs;
perhaps it's the same for a regular + box?

I don't think it has been alleged at all.
Some people hope it will - but that's a different thing.

The review in Issue 44 of "What Home Cinema" says there is a USB and SATA port
for exactly this. There's also the option of allowing downloads to portable
players in the future.

HDD expansion is more likely through the SATA port - More likely than USB

Well why not both?

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

"SteveL" wrote in message
...
Hey that could be good if true. The 160 GB harddrives on the HD box
might sound a lot but high def recording takes up more room.

Hence the reported 250GB HDD in the HD box (and MP4 algorithms)

Hmm, I was told 160 when I ordered it. I wasn't aware of the MP4
either.

I understood it to be 300gb
160gb available to you
140gb reserved for sky

It could be 250gb though.
But same effect
160gb for you
90gb for sky

Loz

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

At 13:56:07 on 16/04/2006, loz delighted uk.media.tv.sky by announcing:


"SteveL" wrote in message
...
Hey that could be good if true. The 160 GB harddrives on the HD box
might sound a lot but high def recording takes up more room.

Hence the reported 250GB HDD in the HD box (and MP4 algorithms)

Hmm, I was told 160 when I ordered it. I wasn't aware of the MP4
either.

I understood it to be 300gb
160gb available to you
140gb reserved for sky

It could be 250gb though.
But same effect
160gb for you
90gb for sky

From the aforementioned mag:

"Round the back of the HD box is a USB socket and a serial ATA port, both of
which will allow supplementary hard disks to be hooked up to the box for an
expansion of the memory capacity."

Features:
250GB hard disk

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

"Alex" wrote in message
...
It could be 250gb though.
But same effect
160gb for you
90gb for sky

From the aforementioned mag:

"Round the back of the HD box is a USB socket and a serial ATA port, both
of
which will allow supplementary hard disks to be hooked up to the box for
an
expansion of the memory capacity."

And of course such mags are always 100% accurate.

The current Sky+ box also has USB ports.
They were also allegedly going to allow expansion.
Did they ever?

Loz

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

At 16:26:03 on 16/04/2006, loz delighted uk.media.tv.sky by announcing:


"Alex" wrote in message
...
It could be 250gb though.
But same effect
160gb for you
90gb for sky

From the aforementioned mag:

"Round the back of the HD box is a USB socket and a serial ATA port, both
of which will allow supplementary hard disks to be hooked up to the box for
an expansion of the memory capacity."

And of course such mags are always 100% accurate.

Hence my use of the word 'allegedly'.

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

"Mike Henry" wrote in message
...
HDD expansion is more likely through the SATA port - More likely than USB
as
HDD is the only use of such a port, so why put one on if you don't intend
to
use?

For a similar reason to why every Sky digibox since 1998 has had an
expansion slot which at the back has never been used, and a Money-card
slot which still hasn't been used...

As I pointed out in another post in this thread

Loz

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

Luke Curtis wrote:
just go a new Amstrad Sky+ box in addition to my V1 Pace box and it
has 2 USB ports, one on the front and one on the back, any use for
them?

I emailed Sky about this a few months ago. They said its not used at the
moment but its there for the future.

Any use for the USB port on Sky+?
 

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:57:18 +0100, "loz"
wrote:

"Mike Henry" wrote:

For a similar reason to why every Sky digibox since 1998 has had an
expansion slot which at the back has never been used, and a Money-card
slot which still hasn't been used...

As I pointed out in another post in this thread

And both you and Mike are wrong - the "Money-card slot" has been used,
the Sky Card credit card service being one purpose.

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