I suspect it has been posted before. However is there any way to turn
off Anytime and recover the disk space to use personally. I have
Googled and can't see an answer to do this.

I have turned off Anytime, removed all recordings and even tried a
planner rebuild. But I don't think i am getting all the space for me
to record. If I am how do I confirm that ?

On my old Sky plus, I had an original small 40Gbyte ? that did not
have anytime and even when replaced with a 250Gbyte box after anytime
was available I never had the anytime option come up.

As soon as the HD box was installed Anytime option came up and wanted
to satrt recording stuff.

thanks

Steve

wrote in message
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I suspect it has been posted before. However is there any way to turn
off Anytime and recover the disk space to use personally. I have
Googled and can't see an answer to do this.



no.
you can turn it off, but you can't have the space.



--
Gareth.

that fly...... is your magic wand....
http://dsbdsb.mybrute.com
you fight better when you have a bear!

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wrote in message
...
I suspect it has been posted before. However is there any way to turn
off Anytime and recover the disk space to use personally. I have
Googled and can't see an answer to do this.



no.
you can turn it off, but you can't have the space.



--
Gareth.

that fly...... is your magic wand....
http://dsbdsb.mybrute.com
you fight better when you have a bear!


On the HD box's anytime is useful. That is, It works. and no you can't have
the space for yourself so you might as well have anytime on as it is free
and you occasionally get a good programme on it.

SD box . It causes problems.

Gary

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 22:27:42 +0100, "The dog from that film you saw"
wrote:



wrote in message
.. .
I suspect it has been posted before. However is there any way to turn
off Anytime and recover the disk space to use personally. I have
Googled and can't see an answer to do this.



no.
you can turn it off, but you can't have the space.


ok thanks. hat what I seem to haev found. I was hoping deleting all
recordings and rebuilding the planner or a complete Box rebuild after
turning off Anytime would give back the space. Rather than just turn
off anytime.

"Gary" wrote in message
news:dTOZn.121925$m87.42470@hurricane...



On the HD box's anytime is useful. That is, It works. and no you can't
have the space for yourself so you might as well have anytime on as it is
free and you occasionally get a good programme on it.

SD box . It causes problems.

Gary




not exactly free - it will often record programmes and then not let you
watch them due to your subscription not covering them - mine records lots
of HD shows, i don't pay the HD sub so can't have them.



--
Gareth.

that fly...... is your magic wand....
http://dsbdsb.mybrute.com
you fight better when you have a bear!

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:09:45 +0100, "Gary"
wrote:


On the HD box's anytime is useful. That is, It works. and no you can't have
the space for yourself so you might as well have anytime on as it is free
and you occasionally get a good programme on it.

SD box . It causes problems.


I have to disagree slightly with this. Ever since Anytime first
appeared I noticed way more frequent crashes. By "way more" I mean my
Sky box crashes maybe once a month, sometimes twice, with Anytime
switched OFF, and specifically it crashes when I'm hitting FastForward
or Rewind lots and it's playing and recording lots of HD stuff all at
the same time and basically can't keep up.

With Anytime switched ON it crashes sometimes twice a day, and
sometimes when it's doing absolutely nothing (no scheduled recordings,
no playback) and just watching a random channel.

I gave them a long time to fix these issues, and retried turning
Anytime back on just last month. Exactly the same behavior.

Sure, it recorded one thing I wanted to watch (which I had recorded
via the planner anyway), but in general I wasn't that impressed with
the content. Mostly stuff on channels I don't have (waste of space),
and most of the rest was stuff I wasn't interested in.

The same stability issues directly associated to having Anytime on
have been reported quite frequently in this newsgroup.

--
Vincent

"Vincent" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:09:45 +0100, "Gary"
wrote:


On the HD box's anytime is useful. That is, It works. and no you can't
have
the space for yourself so you might as well have anytime on as it is free
and you occasionally get a good programme on it.

SD box . It causes problems.


I have to disagree slightly with this. Ever since Anytime first
appeared I noticed way more frequent crashes. By "way more" I mean my
Sky box crashes maybe once a month, sometimes twice, with Anytime
switched OFF, and specifically it crashes when I'm hitting FastForward
or Rewind lots and it's playing and recording lots of HD stuff all at
the same time and basically can't keep up.

With Anytime switched ON it crashes sometimes twice a day, and
sometimes when it's doing absolutely nothing (no scheduled recordings,
no playback) and just watching a random channel.

I gave them a long time to fix these issues, and retried turning
Anytime back on just last month. Exactly the same behavior.

Sure, it recorded one thing I wanted to watch (which I had recorded
via the planner anyway), but in general I wasn't that impressed with
the content. Mostly stuff on channels I don't have (waste of space),
and most of the rest was stuff I wasn't interested in.

The same stability issues directly associated to having Anytime on
have been reported quite frequently in this newsgroup.

--
Vincent

I find Anytime very useful and have NEVER had a crash! (Pace Sky+HD).

The best thing is that there are never any commercials in Anytime
programmes.

In article , Malcolm H
writes


"Vincent" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:09:45 +0100, "Gary"
wrote:


On the HD box's anytime is useful. That is, It works. and no you
can't have
the space for yourself so you might as well have anytime on as it is free
and you occasionally get a good programme on it.

SD box . It causes problems.


I have to disagree slightly with this. Ever since Anytime first
appeared I noticed way more frequent crashes. By "way more" I mean my
Sky box crashes maybe once a month, sometimes twice, with Anytime
switched OFF, and specifically it crashes when I'm hitting FastForward
or Rewind lots and it's playing and recording lots of HD stuff all at
the same time and basically can't keep up.

With Anytime switched ON it crashes sometimes twice a day, and
sometimes when it's doing absolutely nothing (no scheduled recordings,
no playback) and just watching a random channel.

I gave them a long time to fix these issues, and retried turning
Anytime back on just last month. Exactly the same behavior.

Sure, it recorded one thing I wanted to watch (which I had recorded
via the planner anyway), but in general I wasn't that impressed with
the content. Mostly stuff on channels I don't have (waste of space),
and most of the rest was stuff I wasn't interested in.

The same stability issues directly associated to having Anytime on
have been reported quite frequently in this newsgroup.

-- Vincent

I find Anytime very useful and have NEVER had a crash! (Pace Sky+HD).

The best thing is that there are never any commercials in Anytime
programmes.

Or DOGs on the Anytime programmes that I've watched.
--
Sean Black

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:04:12 +0100, "Malcolm H"
wrote:

I find Anytime very useful and have NEVER had a crash! (Pace Sky+HD).

You're telling me that your Sky+HD box has never crashed? How long
have you had it? 5 minutes?

--
Vincent

"Vincent" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:04:12 +0100, "Malcolm H"
wrote:

I find Anytime very useful and have NEVER had a crash! (Pace Sky+HD).

You're telling me that your Sky+HD box has never crashed? How long
have you had it? 5 minutes?

--
Vincent

I've have had my current Pace Sky+HD (modified to 1Tb) box for couple of
years and it may have crashed 3 or 4 times but NEVER when using Anytime.

Previously I had a Thomson Sky+HD box since day one of HD. That worked OK
for a while and then steadily degraded until I replaced the PSU. That
extended its life a little until it had a failure beyond economic repair. I
chose not to get a £65 refurbished box from Sky because (a) I didn't want
another Thomson and (b) I wanted 1Tb (this was before the current Sky 1Tb
offering).