USB MEMORY STICK FOR LG TV - WHAT MEMORY DO I NEED?

Posted 19th Nov 2015

Hi.
While we have a new roof put on our house, the house is surrounded by scaffolding and has knocked the SKY signal out on 3 of the 4 TV's, so we have a few weeks of using freeview, Amazon Prime free trial and Now TV, yahhhhh-boo!
I have a LG Smart TV in my bedroom and want to be able to record programmes to catch up with when I go to bed of an evening, only 1-3 hours probably, but I have no idea what I need to buy in a USB stick to do this.
I'm not very tech knowledgable so any advice would be great!
Thanks in advance!
Dea.

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19th Nov 2015
Next door are having an extension built , they simply had the dish moved and bolted to the outside of the scaffolding while the work was being done, there's normally enough spare cable on the dish to move it a few feet . Is that an option ?
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19th Nov 2015
Any USB stick will do,
19th Nov 2015
Are you going to be recording in SD or HD as that makes a difference. I've read up on this myself only a little bit though, it could be from 1hour recording = 1gb up to 4.5gb. All depends on the quality and length of recording. When I was reading some stated the USB stick wouldn't record and they needed a hard drive with its own power supply to record.
19th Nov 2015
Are you sure the TV has the ability to record to USB in the first instance?
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19th Nov 2015
rufnek2kx
Are you sure the TV has the ability to record to USB in the first … Are you sure the TV has the ability to record to USB in the first instance?

Yes!
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19th Nov 2015
Poppyj1
Are you going to be recording in SD or HD as that makes a difference. … Are you going to be recording in SD or HD as that makes a difference. I've read up on this myself only a little bit though, it could be from 1hour recording = 1gb up to 4.5gb. All depends on the quality and length of recording. When I was reading some stated the USB stick wouldn't record and they needed a hard drive with its own power supply to record.

Thanks!
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19th Nov 2015
rogparki
Next door are having an extension built , they simply had the dish moved … Next door are having an extension built , they simply had the dish moved and bolted to the outside of the scaffolding while the work was being done, there's normally enough spare cable on the dish to move it a few feet . Is that an option ?

Unfortunately not, where we live the slightest gust of wind knocks the sky out so we've got the two dishes set in position where they won't budge unless a tornado hit! Thanks for the tip though!
19th Nov 2015
I assume your tv has time machine. The main thing is that it needs to have a high read/write-speed and also a high storage capacity - 32gb+.
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20th Nov 2015
Canary0500
I assume your tv has time machine. The main thing is that it needs to … I assume your tv has time machine. The main thing is that it needs to have a high read/write-speed and also a high storage capacity - 32gb+.

All I know is it asked me to insert the USB to record when I accidental pressed record instead of reminder?
3 m ago
I have an LG and believe the biggest stick is 32 gig. capacity for this TV or it does not recognise it.