Truth
02-10-2005, 02:18 AM
> Has anyone come across any resources online that explain how the 30-min
> replay function in the Skyfi2 works? There's definitely no hard drive in
> this thing.
Are you sure? That was one of the plans, and they make hard drives real
small now. They put them inside digital camera memory cards now, so you can
add a hard drive to most digital cameras.
> My guess is that it only virtually records and the data is
> cached on somewhere else, otherwise it uses some kind of flash memory like
> cheap MP3 players.
Come to think of it, the "recorded" programming is not supposed to be retained
if you turn off the power to it, so it is probably just stored on a chip that
can not retain memory without power. Scratch all that about the hard drive.
> But being a gadgety type I'd just like to know how it
> works. XM's site seems to be silent on the subject and none of the search
> criteria I've used has come up with anything...
I thought I saw an inside peek of the board on some site, but don't remember
where that was, someone was doing a good technical review of it somewhere.
google.com advanced search with the right keywords should find something.
> replay function in the Skyfi2 works? There's definitely no hard drive in
> this thing.
Are you sure? That was one of the plans, and they make hard drives real
small now. They put them inside digital camera memory cards now, so you can
add a hard drive to most digital cameras.
> My guess is that it only virtually records and the data is
> cached on somewhere else, otherwise it uses some kind of flash memory like
> cheap MP3 players.
Come to think of it, the "recorded" programming is not supposed to be retained
if you turn off the power to it, so it is probably just stored on a chip that
can not retain memory without power. Scratch all that about the hard drive.
> But being a gadgety type I'd just like to know how it
> works. XM's site seems to be silent on the subject and none of the search
> criteria I've used has come up with anything...
I thought I saw an inside peek of the board on some site, but don't remember
where that was, someone was doing a good technical review of it somewhere.
google.com advanced search with the right keywords should find something.