Originally Posted by HDFootyMan (Post 35182878)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?...d=0&output=pdf

Looking for feedback on this folks. Willing to put info in there for stuff like dimensions, power consumption etc and all the other things which I've probably missed. :)

Originally Posted by Marcus125 (Post 35183058)

The sky 1tb box actually has a 1.5tb drive although 500gb is for skys push ondemand feature ,Anytime.

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic (Post 35183606)

but the end user can't use that to record ;)

Originally Posted by big_dirk (Post 35183818)

cracking document, hope you don't mind me asking in this thread but you know where you've listed VOD Push for Sky? Does it grab that stuff via the web or through the satellite? I'm panicking on behalf of my parents now as they have only the basic hardly any bandwidth web package!

Originally Posted by pythagoras (Post 35183518)

Something is wrong with the recording capacity the TiVo reports.

It cant be 325 and 99 hours when the v+ is 80 and 20 They both use the same codec mpeg2

So V+ is 30 minutes per GB for SD and 7 minutes 30 seconds per GB for HD

Therefore TiVo should be:

500 hours of SD and 125 hours of HD.

I suspect TiVo is under reporting its hours.

Regards

John.

Originally Posted by HDFootyMan (Post 35183965)

Its 'pushed' via satellite.

Heh, I really should update that part. ;)

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The odd thing is, the hours for SD recording seemed to reduce as I did more research.

On VM's TiVo Press release, its listed as 500 SD hours.

In VM's TiVo user guide, its stated as 400 SD hours.

Then Carl from TCF told me its actually 325 SD hours

What really blew me away was the 700+ SD recording hours on Sky+HD 1TB (which is actually 1.5TB). I'm assuming at the moment that includes hours 'pushed' onto the box by Sky Anytime, into the reserved 500Gb partition.

Originally Posted by mersey70 (Post 35184180)

The user can record upto 740 hours of SD independently of the 500GB reserved for Anytime.

I'm sure you know but Sky employ DVB-S2 (MPEG4) which is much more efficient than MPEG2 as used by VM.

Originally Posted by HDFootyMan (Post 35184183)

But that's for HD isn't it?

Don't Sky use MPEG2 for their SD channels?

Mind you, if they are using MPEG 4 for SD and that doesn't include the space for Anytime, then that would explain why Sky+HD 1TB has almost double the SD recording space compared to VM's 1TB Tivo.

Originally Posted by mersey70 (Post 35184204)

Yes.

But the 1TB box can still record upto 740 hours SD, I read it's just less than a 3:1 ratio for SD/HD recording whereas VM is about 4:1.

Some of the bitrates on SD are pretty low on Sky which might explain how it can squeeze upto 740 hours. It is confusing I agree, maybe that's based on recording the ropiest shopping channel!

The 500gb reserved for the VOD service is totally separate.