Hi,
I am about to buy a memory stick,(something I know very little about),so as I can download updates from the Humax site.Can you advise as to what is the best size to buy,my tv also updates via usb memory stick so it is an essential piece of kit,there's seems such a lot of choice regarding how many GBs you can get that I'm getting quite confused.
Thanks in advance

Updates for the HDR will fit on a 2gb stick but as they are so easy to use and reasonably priced, I would go for 8gb stick.

Thank you REPASSAC,that's what I thought,just needed someone like yourself to verify.

I use the Medion 8gb sticks from Aldi.

I ended up buying a 8mb one from Amazon.

Don't forget that unless you format it to ext3 format you'll only be able to copy over 4gb at a time.

So any HD films or SD films over 2hrs won't be able to copy over.

I've had to split recordings sometimes so that i can copy over films that use more than 4gb to record.

Fair pont, but I think the OP only wanted it for doing software updates.

To be honest I've found copying programmes onto a USB stick to be more trouble than it's worth, especially since the Foxsat doesn't unmount the memory stick properly so there's often a long delay when you plug the memory stick into your computer while the ext3 partition is scanned for problems

Yes I couldn't use it with ext3 for similar reasons.

I only use it with Fat32 now and try to split files manually if I think they are going to be over 4gb.

I've just had to stop 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' at 1hr and then start recording the last 1hr 30mins again and use Video Redo to join them after taking out the adverts.

P.s. Although having said that ST:TMP was only 2.5gb even with splitting it.