So THAT's what the locked half of the HD is for on a Sky + box - VOD

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....rint&ID=945710

....in 2007, Sky will introduce a new enhancement giving Sky+ customers
the chance to enjoy a selection of the week's best programmes
on-demand. The service will be available to more than one million Sky+
and Sky HD customers from launch, making use of additional recording
capacity on the hard drive of more recent boxes.

Ed wrote:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....rint&ID=945710

...in 2007, Sky will introduce a new enhancement giving Sky+ customers
the chance to enjoy a selection of the week's best programmes
on-demand. The service will be available to more than one million Sky+
and Sky HD customers from launch, making use of additional recording
capacity on the hard drive of more recent boxes.

Still 5 years behind Tivo then...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05...ivo_recorders/

I wonder if it will go down any better when sky do it.

--
Mike

"Ed" wrote in message
oups.com...
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....rint&ID=945710

...in 2007, Sky will introduce a new enhancement giving Sky+ customers
the chance to enjoy a selection of the week's best programmes
on-demand. The service will be available to more than one million Sky+
and Sky HD customers from launch, making use of additional recording
capacity on the hard drive of more recent boxes.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse

In article .com, Ed
writes
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....newsArticle_Pr
int&ID=945710

...in 2007, Sky will introduce a new enhancement giving Sky+ customers
the chance to enjoy a selection of the week's best programmes
on-demand. The service will be available to more than one million Sky+
and Sky HD customers from launch, making use of additional recording
capacity on the hard drive of more recent boxes.


I already get to "enjoy a selection of the week's best programmes". I
record them myself, if I'm interested in them. I just wish they'd
release the rest of the space on the hard drive so I could record some
more of them, as the 160gb available on the HD box, I find very
limiting. With the likes of King Kong taking up 14%, Kill Bill 9% and
the Star Wars movies in HD that pretty much fills it up.

--
Sean Black

Ed wrote:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....rint&ID=945710

...in 2007, Sky will introduce a new enhancement giving Sky+ customers
the chance to enjoy a selection of the week's best programmes
on-demand. The service will be available to more than one million Sky+
and Sky HD customers from launch, making use of additional recording
capacity on the hard drive of more recent boxes.


When TiVo launched here, the BBC tried a similar type of thing ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/24/bbc_hijacks_tivo_recorders/

--
Adrian C

"Mike Redrobe" wrote in message
. uk...
Ed wrote:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....rint&ID=945710

...in 2007, Sky will introduce a new enhancement giving Sky+ customers
the chance to enjoy a selection of the week's best programmes
on-demand. The service will be available to more than one million Sky+
and Sky HD customers from launch, making use of additional recording
capacity on the hard drive of more recent boxes.

Still 5 years behind Tivo then...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05...ivo_recorders/

I wonder if it will go down any better when sky do it.

--
Mike


But with the TiVo, the space occupied by the downloaded programme was part
of the viewers hdd space. Sky's version will use the portion of the hdd
which isn't currently used by viewers.

In message ,
ABC Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

"Mike Redrobe" wrote in message
. uk...
Ed wrote:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....rint&ID=945710

...in 2007, Sky will introduce a new enhancement giving Sky+
customers the chance to enjoy a selection of the week's best
programmes on-demand. The service will be available to more than
one million Sky+ and Sky HD customers from launch, making use of
additional recording capacity on the hard drive of more recent
boxes.

Still 5 years behind Tivo then...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05...ivo_recorders/

I wonder if it will go down any better when sky do it.

--
Mike


But with the TiVo, the space occupied by the downloaded programme was
part of the viewers hdd space. Sky's version will use the portion of
the hdd which isn't currently used by viewers.

I'd have thought that most users would rather Sky freed up that portion so
that they could use it for their own recordings...

--
Regards,
Chris.
(Remove Elvis's shoes to email me)

"Adrian C" wrote in message
...
Ed wrote:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....rint&ID=945710

...in 2007, Sky will introduce a new enhancement giving Sky+ customers
the chance to enjoy a selection of the week's best programmes
on-demand. The service will be available to more than one million Sky+
and Sky HD customers from launch, making use of additional recording
capacity on the hard drive of more recent boxes.


When TiVo launched here, the BBC tried a similar type of thing ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/24/bbc_hijacks_tivo_recorders/

--
Adrian C


At some point some of the Public Relations / Stockholm syndrome suffers from
the BBC / BSKYB will enter this thread telling everyone how wrong they are
to want to control what their Video Recorder copies.

What a ridiculous idea of suggesting the consumers might want to choose how
to spend their time and money, and in what format they consume products, and
whether said products are mutilated with further logos, adverts, Trojan
software, centralised mono-directional voice-overs.

In the case of the BBC, you licence fee payers should be grateful that aunty
forces your PVR to record Tosser and Joe and that since the remote control
was invented, by Auntie, you are in fact no longer required to get down on
your knees to programme the video.

"Ed" wrote in message
oups.com
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....rint&ID=945710

...in 2007, Sky will introduce a new enhancement giving Sky+ customers
the chance to enjoy a selection of the week's best programmes
on-demand. The service will be available to more than one million Sky+
and Sky HD customers from launch, making use of additional recording
capacity on the hard drive of more recent boxes.

If it has to record "a selection of the week's best programmes"[1] on the HD
first, it's not "on-demand".

[1] IOW, dross. True on-demand allows the customer to choose what he wants,
including rare, unpopular stuff.

--
Max Demian

"Max Demian" wrote in message
...
"Ed" wrote in message
oups.com
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....rint&ID=945710

...in 2007, Sky will introduce a new enhancement giving Sky+ customers
the chance to enjoy a selection of the week's best programmes
on-demand. The service will be available to more than one million Sky+
and Sky HD customers from launch, making use of additional recording
capacity on the hard drive of more recent boxes.

If it has to record "a selection of the week's best programmes"[1] on the
HD first, it's not "on-demand".

[1] IOW, dross. True on-demand allows the customer to choose what he
wants, including rare, unpopular stuff.

--
Max Demian



Interesting, and will merely browsing one minute of these programmes be
counted as share / reach?

Do bears **** in the woods. ;-)