March 29, 2007 · Filed Under Television

Sky Anytime

Recently Sky launched Sky Anytime

So what does this mean ? Well if you have a PVR3 or HD sky box, then you will now have additional temporary recordings which an editor considers popular and sets to download for you, the recordings are not counted alongside your personal recordings, because they are on Sky’s half of your hard disk, which has not been utilised up until now.

My thoughts: If you record HD films like me then your will find that they take up a lot of space on your hard disk, I really think users should have the option to utilise the space which is being used for Sky Anytime as not everybody likes the stuff that they select for you, I mean I doubt I am going to be watching the Kim Possible episodes they have recorded any time soon, I would much rather use up that space for HD films.

Another thing that is on my mind is the unused connections on these boxes, when is the USB or Ethernet port going to be utilised ?

Below is a screen shot of Sky anytime, as you can see each video they record includes a preview - why can’t they do that for the personal recordings ?

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