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The playback of recordings on my Sky Plus box was seriously degrading: almost every recording had glitches where playback suddenly jumps back a few seconds and compression artifacts are all over the picture. At it's worst the sound goes or makes lots of noise. This was worse during a particularly dramatic episode of Family Affairs, spoiling my wife's veiwing pleasure.
So I've put the 80G hard disk from my old PC into it. For the record this is a Western Digital WD800BB-75DKA0. I took the following steps:
Swapped disks
Powered up box while holding down 'Backup' button on front panel. This caused a download of the firmware, giving an alarming 'Don't remove mains for at least 10 Minutes' display on the TV.
After looking dead and ignoring the remote for a while it came to life and started downloading listings.
Went to 'Services' menu and pressed 4 for the 'system setup' menu, '01 Select' for the secret housekeeping menu and 8 to reformat the hard disk.
Box again went dead for a minute or so.
On again, using remote, and downloaded listings.
Turn to BBC 1, press live pause and marvel that it worked.
The secret with this is to stay calm and be patient when the box looks dead.
Now, fingers crossed that the drive lasts longer than the 6 days that the accursed IBM Deskstar survived (P366).
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My first chance to photo blog from starbucks. Sunny day in ashford, not hot like it has been recently. Global warning means horrible humidity in this part of the world. Not sure if this is better than rain.
It's my birthday on monday so i'm trying to think of a tech birthday present for myself. More memory for my pc is top of the list. It has only 256Mb and i ought to upgrade it before sdram becomes obsolete.
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