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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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?

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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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.

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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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)

"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

"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

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.

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?