What volume of recordings can a USB stick hold... Saorview

twirlagig · 2011-12-19 22:56:51

Apologies if this has been asked before :o But I'm just wondering how much you can record from Saorview to a usb stick? Over the weekend I bought a small Saorview-approved tv for the bedroom. Didn't notice til last night that it can record :o I bought one of the first Walker boxes that came out for the main telly, but it…

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Apologies if this has been asked before But I'm just wondering how much you can record from Saorview to a usb stick? Over the weekend I bought a small Saorview-approved tv for the bedroom. Didn't notice til last night that it can record I bought one of the first Walker boxes that came out for the main telly, but it can't record.
Back to the small telly -I have a 16GB usb stick in it at the moment, how many recording hours (or is it only minutes!) can I expect from it?
Thanks in advance

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#2 20-12-2011 12:30AM

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Estimate at roughly 1.25gb per hour.

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#3 20-12-2011 12:54AM

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Allow 4 gigs per hour for HD

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#4 20-12-2011 09:47AM

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Also depends on file format. FAT / FAT32 is very limited.

The consumption isn't constant. It's variable bit rate.

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