Re: New to SKY+: A couple of questions.




"SteveL" <stevelon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:11:31 +0000 (UTC), Brian McIlwrath
> <bkm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>SteveL <stevelon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

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