First picture of the new Thomson Sky+160

The first picture of the new Thomson Sky+160 became available today.

It looks very striking.

For picture and article click here - http://www.plusworld.co.uk/

Callum
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The first picture of the new Thomson Sky+160 became available today.

It looks very striking.

For picture and article click here - http://www.plusworld.co.uk/

It looks very big!

The more I think about it, the more I wonder if one of the uses for the USB
ports will be to daisy chain additional storage. Sky are already talking about
selling movies to your hard disk. If you buy too many movies then 80 hours
of storage isn't going to go far. Maybe Sky have aspirations to pitch a Sky+
box as the heart of a media hub for non tech-savvy homes. Maybe they're
also hoping that they can get some nice markups on selling add-on storage
to people who won't look further than the Sky magazine for their electronics.
I wonder how much revenue and profit they make from their existing electronics
section in the Sky Mag.

- Julian

Julian wrote:
"plusworld.co.uk" wrote in message om...

The first picture of the new Thomson Sky+160 became available today.

It looks very striking.

For picture and article click here - http://www.plusworld.co.uk/


It looks very big!

The more I think about it, the more I wonder if one of the uses for the USB
ports will be to daisy chain additional storage. Sky are already talking about
selling movies to your hard disk. If you buy too many movies then 80 hours
of storage isn't going to go far. Maybe Sky have aspirations to pitch a Sky+
box as the heart of a media hub for non tech-savvy homes. Maybe they're
also hoping that they can get some nice markups on selling add-on storage
to people who won't look further than the Sky magazine for their electronics.
I wonder how much revenue and profit they make from their existing electronics
section in the Sky Mag.

- Julian


£400 for this box compared with £200 for the other boxes, just to get a
160 gig disk. I think that someone is trying to rip us off, the retail
price of a 160gig disk is less than £60 these days.

Paul

£400 for this box compared with £200 for the other boxes, just to get a
160 gig disk. I think that someone is trying to rip us off, the retail
price of a 160gig disk is less than £60 these days.

Paul


Some of us are dreaming of building an open source solution to these
problems. XMLTV is one possible starting component. BitTorrent the
second. XML RSS the third. DIV-X and DIRAC the fourth.

All that is really missing is an easy way of encoding data to disk and a
trip to Taiwan might even solve that one.

I have a dream that one day entire libraries of programmes will be
available via the internet array. It will also make things such as
LOGO-removal and advert skipping possible, as well as able to
watch a programme one did not explicitly record.

An open source Mass-Array-PVR could allow massive personal hard disks
and detactched storage devices to be used, shared, and archived.

Any computer system where the user can not access the file system or
tinker with the operating system, is in my view, a liability and
weakness as to what the user is then empowered to do.


http://logofreetv.org/



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