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techradar.com - 5/30/2009

In Depth: How to upgrade your Sky+HD's hard drive

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When Sky HD started nearly three years ago, there were only eight hi-def channels to choose from (including BBC HD). By February 2008 that number had increased to 31. But in that time the capacity of the internal hard disk drive that the Sky+HD box uses as a recording medium has not been ...

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