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USB port on fron of Sky+ box...

Ronan H · 2008-02-15 13:49:06

Does anyone know can this be used to copy programs from the box onto a hard drive or something like that? Or is it just used for diagnostic stuff if engineers call out? If you can copy stuff to hard drives what format are the programs in? Ta... Head

15-02-2008 1:49pm

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Ronan H

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Does anyone know can this be used to copy programs from the box onto a hard drive or something like that? Or is it just used for diagnostic stuff if engineers call out?

If you can copy stuff to hard drives what format are the programs in?

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#2 15-02-2008 1:56pm

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I believe it cant be used to copy stuff from the HD. I'm sure I read somewhere its there as a "just in case" sceanario, if they want to add some-extra functionality.

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#3 25-08-2008 3:18pm

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that was my understanding too, usb port does nothing at the moment. There is no easy way to transfer stuff from sky+ to external storage...

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#4 25-08-2008 3:27pm

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Can be used as an iPod charger.

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#5 25-08-2008 3:49pm

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Heres an interesting discussion about the much talked about USB port...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=270135

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#6 25-08-2008 8:31pm

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