Recent content by harveymt

I am moving house and the new one already has a Sky dish installed. It looks like it's been there a while as it is fairly rusted. I have signed up as a new customer and it's due to be installed tomorrow. Will the installer put a new dish and cables in? Are they required to? I'm not that...

Would you better buying a 2 bay nas and adding drives to it or buy something like this http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00499DMRQ/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=computers but buy two of them?

I need to sort out external storage. The 2nd hard drive on my PC is almost full. I was going to take this drive and buy another and put them both into this...

What's the difference between a USB cable and a OTG cable or is there one? Would that hard drive example above be ok with one of those OTG cables?

Is it possible to attach a portable hard drive to an Android phone via the USB port? I've an HTC One and could I attach something like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008PABFX8/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=computers

Were you an existing HD customer or taking out a new HD sub? The Sky site says it's just for new HD customers.

My Sky HD box is a bit glitchy at the min, I've had it for a few years. I have Sky multi-room as well with a 8 year old basic Sky box in the bedroom. I want to get a new HD box downstairs and put the current HD box upstairs in the bedroom running in single feed mode. Not too worried about...

I'm looking at getting a tablet for watching internet and videos about the house. It'll be some ripped DVDs, YouTube, iPlayer and Sky Go. A lot of them seem to be 4:3 based. I've seen 2048x1536 screens like on the iPad. With widescreen stuff you'll have bars top and bottom or you could expand...

It's a smaller screen than I wanted, it doesn't have a rear camera and using it to make calls would make you look stupid plus it's not something you can just shove in your pocket. On the plus side, it is cheap and you can get sim only, 12 month deals with all you can eat data for £16 a month...

Has anyone any experience with these tablets? I've been hmming and haing over a new phone or whether I should get a tablet and cheap phone. I'd like something with a bigger screen to watch videos, youtube, iPlayer and programmes on the Sky app. Internet use too. I think tablets have a little...

I was under the impression that posts and threads of a political nature were not allowed under house rules?

I've been dithering over getting a new phone for ages. Had decided on a HTC One X a while back and phoned Orange retentions but they offered me a worse deal than I could have gotten just by walking into the shop. I've since realised that the One X doesn't have a removable battery or card slot...

I think in your haste to belittle me you've not bothered to read what I plan on doing. I would have one enclosure plugged into the back of the router and with which I would access my data. On the product I looked at hard drives can be added as needed. I would then have another enclosure...

I am looking to expand the amount of storage I have. For back up, I am going to get a four bay enclosure I saw on Amazon and I can stick in 3TB drives. That will give me up 12 TB storage. That'll plug directly into my desktop via eSATA and I can switch it on as needed to back up. I have looked...

Most of the contracts were the same price as those for the HTC One X and Samsung SIII which I thought odd given the phone is about half the price of those two handsets. A pity you can't expand the memory. What do you do if the phone freezes? My current HTC Desire is getting on a bit now and it...