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Originally Posted by markcunn2
A couple of questions:
1. Is it very fiddly as I have ****-poor hand-eye coordination so am not very adept at changing things.
2. Is a new HD cheap?
3. Is the copy+ software free or is it charged?
Thanks for any help.
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1) I assume that your doing your HD box? There are walkthoughs on the site showing you how to do a Thompson and Samsung box.
The Thompson can be done with a Philips head screwdriver and the Samsung needed some "security" screwdriver (it was explained in the walkthrough)
I took it nice and slow and it took me 40 mins to get the box apart and the drive out with lots of references to the photos. I have had arthritus since I was 12 and am completely ham fisted. I would say getting the drive out was no worse than installing memory or a graphics card on your PC, you just have to tak it slow.
2) For a HD box you need a SATA drive, I got a Hitachi 1TB drive 2 weeks ago for £73 from dabs which gives you an insane amount of space as you still lose 160 or so gigabytes to Anytime etc leaving somewhere close to approx 740 gig for your own use.
(the drive formats up to approx 900 gig on a 1TB drive)
That equates to about 120 hours on HD or close to 500 hours of SD!!
If you don't want that much a 750 gig SATA drive is very cheap (approx £50) and would still give an excellent amount of space, to be honest there isn't much point doing less than that as the space increase is not much on top of the standard 300 gig drive in there.
3) the copy+ software is free and the latest version is excellent with well laid out instructions, and it not only copies your recordings but your whole planner of future recordings as well.
You will need to work out how you are going to connect up the drive to your PC to copy the programmes over, a SATA caddy is the easiest and you would only need 120 gig tops on your PC drive to hold a full HD box worth of recordings.
If you have any more questions ask, but don't rush into it and take your time when doing it.
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