I have promised someone I will get hold of their TV appearance.

I'm not sure how this can be done; although thought i'd give it a go this morning with a SD card/USB adaptor, formatted to FAT32 with a capacity of 1.86Gb. The programme is quite small, an hour of BBC West Mids in SD. I had assumed this would be an easy file to transfer, but I keep getting a "no more storage" message.

I have managed to transfer two different hour long programmes - from Channl Four and Five, but suspect that I get this message due to BBC WM using a higher bitrate and requiring more space (i'd have rather have not had to buy a seperate pen...)

Secondly, how can I transfer the file into something more usable? I was wondering it popping it into their Youtube would be enough, but i'm doubting that will work... Any thoughts?

Just recorded a short clip of BBC1 WM here's the details

General
ID : 7FE
Complete name : G:\Football Focus_20110319_1246.ts
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : BluRay Video
File size : 40.9 MiB
Duration : 1mn 15s
Overall bit rate : 4 568 Kbps

Video
ID : 5000 (0x1388)
Menu ID : 10301 (0x283D)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Duration : 1mn 15s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 118 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 15.0 Mbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.397
Stream size : 36.8 MiB (90%)

Audio
ID : 5001 (0x1389)
Menu ID : 10301 (0x283D)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Duration : 1mn 15s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Video delay : -261ms
Stream size : 2.29 MiB (6%)
Language : English

Text #1
ID : 5002 (0x138A)
Menu ID : 10301 (0x283D)
Format : Teletext
Language : eng / eng

Text #2
ID : 5003 (0x138B)
Menu ID : 10301 (0x283D)
Format : DVB Subtitles
Language : English

Menu
ID : 256 (0x100)
Menu ID : 10301 (0x283D)
Format : MPEG Video / MPEG Audio / Teletext / DVB Subtitles
List : 5000 (0x1388) (MPEG Video) / 5001 (0x1389) (MPEG Audio, eng) / 5002 (0x138A) (Teletext, eng / eng) / 5003 (0x138B) (DVB Subtitles, eng)
Language : / eng / eng / eng / eng

As you can see bitrate is 4.568Mbps divide by 8 to get MB/sec gives 0.571 MB/sec multiply by 3600 gives a file size of about 2055MB so your guess is correct it's too big for the stick.

If you can get hold of the .ts file why not burn it to DVD. You can use the free trial version of Videoredo TV suite.