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This morning I woke up at around 9:30 with a nasty headache (I went to a party last night :)) and I couldn’t go back to sleep so I went downstairs. Just as I stepped into the living room the phone rang. The Sky Technician was calling to say that he’ll be here between 10AM-2PM. 2 minutes after ten and I hear a knock on the door, shure enough he was here and ready to install the high-def Sky Box. He changed the old LNB on the Satellite Dish so that you can now view one channel and record the other. He also set up the box, made sure everything was right and gave the system a spin. All in all, it toom around an hour to get everything in working order, The instruction manual says it has a 300GB hard-drive, with 160GB for personal use, but I don’t know whether that’s true or not. What would the system need 140GB for? Who cares, that 160GB is good enough for our family, capable of 30 hours of HD content storage and 80 hours of standard def.
I was amazed with some of the things it had (physically). There are 2 USB2 ports and an Ethernet port which currently can’t be used for anything, as Sky are currently planning later use for it. But here’s what gobsmacked me: a SATA port so that you can connect your own hard drive to it, if there isn’t enough space. That’s so awsome from Sky, and I can’t believe they did such a thing. The manual claims it works, but having no SATA drives at home I can’t test it out. I’ll be giving the system a fuller review later on, but the picture is so amazing. I watched the Iran vs Portugal match on BBC HD and it looked so nice; it certainly made the SD version look like toast! I’ve taken a few photos of the ‘event’ so click the link below to take a look.

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