Sky Sky+HD - Recording from anywhere you go

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TAKING CONTROL
RECORDING WITH SKY
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Keeping an eye on available disk space
Remember that because your Sky±HD box records onto its hard disk there is a
fixed amount of storage space for recordings and Sky Anytime± downloads.
To see how much space each programme is using, highlight a programme in your
Planner and check the yellow part of the indicator bar. The bigger the yellow part,
the more space the programme is using.
You can check the exact percentage of disk space used for an individual programme
by pressingi
when a programme is highlighted.
HD recordings take up more space than other recorded programmes.
To free up some disk space, you can copy recorded programmes to your video
or DVD recorder. See Copying programmes to video/DVD (page 46).
Disk space warning
When you get your Sky±HD box, it is set up to automatically delete recordings
without warning if there’s not enough disk space for a new recording. This means
the oldest, viewed programmes in your Planner will be deleted when you run out
of space to make sure future recordings can be made.
You can change this setting as follows:
1 Press services (for Options), press down then select the Sky± Set Up tab.
2 Highlight Disk Space Management and use the left/right arrow to choose:
Warning if you want a warning that a programme is about to be deleted
Manual if you never want previous recordings to be deleted; future recordings
will fail if there’s not enough space.
3 Press green (Save Settings) when you’re done.
With the Automatic option, recordings you have
already watched are deleted first, followed by the
oldest, unwatched recordings. Programmes marked
Keep are never deleted without your confirmation.
In Warning and Manual modes,
a warning appears before you run out of space:
Total disk space available