New to SKY+: A couple of questions.

1) Is it possible to alter the recording settings of SKY+ to trade off
a lower recording quality for more usable disk space, as you can with
other hard disk recorders?

2) Pressing the "i" key to get a program synopsis only works for the
currently showing programs (if you scroll right to get a later program
pressing "i" still only describes what's currently on), yet you can
get information on later programs by going to the TV Guide and
laboriously navigating to the next program and pressing "i" here. It
seems silly to have to do that when you could just hit select, and get
the info with a couple key presses. Or Am I doing something wrong?

MTIA

SteveL wrote:
: 1) Is it possible to alter the recording settings of SKY+ to trade off
: a lower recording quality for more usable disk space, as you can with
: other hard disk recorders?

No - as Sky+ dumps the (still encrypted) broadcast data stream to the disk.
Only HDRs which encode the MPEG themseleves can alter resolution. Of course
this means that Sky+ recordings are intrinsically as good as when broadcast!

: 2) Pressing the "i" key to get a program synopsis only works for the
: currently showing programs (if you scroll right to get a later program
: pressing "i" still only describes what's currently on), yet you can
: get information on later programs by going to the TV Guide and
: laboriously navigating to the next program and pressing "i" here. It
: seems silly to have to do that when you could just hit select, and get
: the info with a couple key presses. Or Am I doing something wrong?

There is a limit of how much data can be broadcast along with the channel
being watched! The EPG is on its own "channel" and can cope with the data
rate need to broadcast all the programme information.

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:11:31 +0000 (UTC), Brian McIlwrath
wrote:

SteveL wrote:
: 1) Is it possible to alter the recording settings of SKY+ to trade off
: a lower recording quality for more usable disk space, as you can with
: other hard disk recorders?

No - as Sky+ dumps the (still encrypted) broadcast data stream to the disk.
Only HDRs which encode the MPEG themseleves can alter resolution. Of course
this means that Sky+ recordings are intrinsically as good as when broadcast!

I've got SKY + 160 and I still ask! I wonder how the ordinary sky +
users cope....


: 2) Pressing the "i" key to get a program synopsis only works for the
: currently showing programs (if you scroll right to get a later program
: pressing "i" still only describes what's currently on), yet you can
: get information on later programs by going to the TV Guide and
: laboriously navigating to the next program and pressing "i" here. It
: seems silly to have to do that when you could just hit select, and get
: the info with a couple key presses. Or Am I doing something wrong?

There is a limit of how much data can be broadcast along with the channel
being watched! The EPG is on its own "channel" and can cope with the data
rate need to broadcast all the programme information.

Yes I understand why now. Still it seems a shame they can't find room
for the next program at least...

Thanks for the response.

SteveL wrote:
1) Is it possible to alter the recording settings of SKY+ to trade off
a lower recording quality for more usable disk space, as you can with
other hard disk recorders?

2) Pressing the "i" key to get a program synopsis only works for the
currently showing programs (if you scroll right to get a later program
pressing "i" still only describes what's currently on), yet you can
get information on later programs by going to the TV Guide and
laboriously navigating to the next program and pressing "i" here. It
seems silly to have to do that when you could just hit select, and get
the info with a couple key presses. Or Am I doing something wrong?

MTIA
A 1) No. It is not possible at the moment. This is why some people get
larger disks
A 2)It seems that it would take a phenomenal amount of space as to be
impractible for Sky
Hime

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On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:11:31 +0000 (UTC), Brian McIlwrath
wrote:

SteveL wrote:
: 1) Is it possible to alter the recording settings of SKY+ to trade off
: a lower recording quality for more usable disk space, as you can with
: other hard disk recorders?

No - as Sky+ dumps the (still encrypted) broadcast data stream to the
disk.
Only HDRs which encode the MPEG themseleves can alter resolution. Of
course
this means that Sky+ recordings are intrinsically as good as when
broadcast!

I've got SKY + 160 and I still ask! I wonder how the ordinary sky +
users cope....



By watching some of the stuff on it, instead of using recording as a proxy
for watching?

"Did you see the footy last night?" ...."No but I recorded it"

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