Sky Glass

[Colonel Bumcunt]

On the face of it....that's a really interesting way of extracting money from my pocket.  

A QLED tv....in a choice of colours...with Dolby Atmos speakers....and pay it off over 4 years at 0% interest....

[skend04]

24 minutes ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

On the face of it....that's a really interesting way of extracting money from my pocket.  

A QLED tv....in a choice of colours...with Dolby Atmos speakers....and pay it off over 4 years at 0% interest....

I bought a new TV not so long ago otherwise I'd have been tempted by this. Can now just sit back and see how reliable and well made these sets are.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/10/08/who-makes-sky-glass-tv/?amp

[Captain Turdseye]

Basically a Philips TV with Sky pre-installed?

 

I’ve already got a Philips ambilight and I stopped using Sky years ago. 
 

If everyone starts buying their TV’s from Sky, it’s just another example of massive companies monopolising industries. 

[Captain Turdseye]

Another concern with Sky Glass is, naturally, how much it costs. Sky is eager to state that it’s offering a whole new way for people to purchase and pay for their TVs - the idea is that you buy your set like you buy your mobile phone, with flexible payments each month - and on first impressions, the subscription package sounds reasonable: you can pick up a 43-inch Sky Glass TV from £13 per month with a £26 per month Sky subscription on top.

However, while that sounds appealing, that gets you the most basic package – you won’t have access to movies or sports, nor will you be able to make use of the TV’s 4K-resolution screen or built-in Dolby Atmos audio, with the latter two combined setting you back an extra £5 per month. Sky Cinema is an additional £11, Sky Sports an extra £26, and if you want to stream Sky to any other rooms in your home, it’ll set you back £50 per box, plus an additional £10 per month. All in, that’s approaching £150 a month, or £1,800 a year – more than the total cost of our current favourite 50in TV.

[Mudface]

Given how appallingly shit Sky Go is, I'd be very wary of a Sky streaming service.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

1 hour ago, Captain Turdseye said:

 

 

I wonder if you can record live TV? Will be a big minus if not. 

[Captain Turdseye]

18 minutes ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

I wonder if you can record live TV? Will be a big minus if not. 

I read up on it before. There’s no record function but you can go back and stream. 

[Brownie]

36 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

I read up on it before. There’s no record function but you can go back and stream. 

You don’t need to record because it’s a streaming service. I’d imagine you’ll be able to make it look like you’ve recorded something in the UI but essentially it’ll just like setting a flag to access one of their streams.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

23 minutes ago, Brownie said:

You don’t need to record because it’s a streaming service. I’d imagine you’ll be able to make it look like you’ve recorded something in the UI but essentially it’ll just like setting a flag to access one of their streams.

I often record footy games and watch later.  Sky don't allow you to select a footy match to download and watch again, or not that I've noticed.  

[Brownie]

21 minutes ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

I often record footy games and watch later.  Sky don't allow you to select a footy match to download and watch again, or not that I've noticed.  

No but with the new TV they will let you “record” the match as normal but you won’t be recording it because there’s no drive to record to. You’ll just be putting something in the UI which allows you to access their recording of it.

[Elite]

Not worth the money. 

[Brownie]

29 minutes ago, Elite said:

Not worth the money. 

I think it will be an attractive enough option for a lot of "normal" sky customers. For those who are all over the latest tech with TV's, it won't be suitable as it will be a mid range TV (none of the gaming features for instance).

[johnsusername]

I don't think the tech will work, consistently. My Q isn't always smooth sailing. I guess it depends on how good your broadband is.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Glass/Cancelled/td-p/3804363/page/2

[Mudface]

9 hours ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Glass/Cancelled/td-p/3804363/page/2

I flicked through another couple of threads in that forum- it sounds like complete shit. From what I can gather, you can't 'record' TV as there's no hard drive or cloud storage, so it just gets bookmarked and then played back through whatever app is appropriate.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

I was in th phone this morning to Sky to drop a couple of things off my package, some silver-tongued Welsh wizard trying to upsell me things like broadband.  Worth noting that at no time did this sales-wolf try to sell Sky Glass to me...

[Mudface]

According to those threads, a good way to get out of your Sky contract is to 'upgrade' to Sky Glass and then cancel it. Must be a ton of people binning it once they realise that it's a bit shit.