Sky Why you can't use all of your hard disk.

When you see a Sky Plus box with a 160Gig hard drive you must be careful to check how much of it is actually available for you to record on. With all later models of Sky Plus the inbuilt system takes away and reserves 80Gig for services such as "Anytime TV".
So why is this important?
If you see a Sky box for sale on eBay, or indeed if you upgrade your home box with a larger hard drive yourself you will probably wonder why you end up with far less recording time than your maths would suggest.
For example if you take a standard Sky you presently have 40 hours recording time but you may not know that there is an 80 hour (160Gig) hard disk already inside. (In fact the available time is very variable as the raw stream from the satellite transponder is recorded and there is nothing that you, I

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