Sky Glass - has the TV world just changed forever?

65 in £21 per month for 49 months on top of sky contract . Only 2 year warranty on TV . You are tied to SKY for over 4 years and if you quit or move to another vendor the TV is useless .
 
Victory Boy said:
65 in £21 per month for 49 months on top of sky contract . Only 2 year warranty on TV . You are tied to SKY for over 4 years and if you quit or move to another vendor the TV is useless .
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Why would the Tv be useless if it has multiple inputs including 3x HDMI?
 
seasideone said:
Full sound system
Sky box incorporated
No longer need a dish
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You can already get Sky broadcasts on a smart TV through the NOW TV service. You can also get Sky, through Virgin TV fibre optic so don't need a dish with that set up either.
It looks like a way that Sky can keep you as a prisoner as Victory Boy mentions, I'm not sure what the technological advance here is.
 
Also if you didn’t want sky anymore couldn’t you just buy a Freeview box and plug it into the hdmi slot?
 
SKY are trying to exit the satellite market as transmissions are expensive and biting into there profits . This range of TV's are expensive for a
non descript manufacturer and tie you to a contract for over 4 years . SKY are also selling a mac sized box that will offer all the functions
of the Glass TV range to operate with your existing TV at £10 per month . If you buy the Glass TV you are being tied to a 49 month
contract and it only works for that 1 TV if you want TV in multi rooms you would need to buy a Glass TV for each room or the mac sized
box for each room . All for something you can already get with Virgin or BT .
 
Victory Boy said:
SKY are trying to exit the satellite market as transmissions are expensive and biting into there profits . This range of TV's are expensive for a
non descript manufacturer and tie you to a contract for over 4 years . SKY are also selling a mac sized box that will offer all the functions
of the Glass TV range to operate with your existing TV at £10 per month . If you buy the Glass TV you are being tied to a 49 month
contract and it only works for that 1 TV if you want TV in multi rooms you would need to buy a Glass TV for each room or the mac sized
box for each room . All for something you can already get with Virgin or BT .
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In fairness I am a little out of it when it comes to Sky being an expat.

What I do like about this system though is that it has everything included. Including a decent sound system (for me anyway).

Reminds me a bit of the early iPhone in some ways….take the single devices (phone, web and iPod) - stick them together and for most users it becomes much more simple.

In this case it’s Sky, Netflix, actual TV, Sound system, Amazon, Spotify etc all together.

For me as a user that’s exactly what I would want and buy.

Interesting they are going to license all their tech to other TV manufacturers.
 
seasideone said:
In this case it’s Sky, Netflix, actual TV, Sound system, Amazon, Spotify etc all together.
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In other words it is a Sky branded smart TV, most smart TVs have apps for all of these services streamed via the internet - the only things slightly unusual are the Sky products (there is no actual Sky app AFAIK but you can use NOW TV to stream Sky on a smart TV) and the high quality of the TV sound system - which I think is unusual.
 
ElBurroSinNombre said:
In other words it is a Sky branded smart TV, most smart TVs have apps for all of these services streamed via the internet - the only things slightly unusual are the Sky products (there is no actual Sky app AFAIK but you can use NOW TV to stream Sky on a smart TV) and the high quality of the TV sound system - which I think is unusual.
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Yeh thats probably a fair description.

…but like the iPhone, nobody had put it in to one device before and that is what changes the game.

When other manufactures do the same, is it the end of sound bars, seperate surround sound systems etc?

(No doubt some techy will always have seperates though!)
 
Since1967 said:
How do you record programmes?
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No Recording capability I believe which is a massive massive drawback and a retrograde step. The recording capability of the SKYQ Box is its biggest positive factor......no recording facility is amazingly bad design as an “upgrade”

if it recorded then I’d say it’s a good enough product

Ill be sticking with SKYQ

edit to add, I can’t believe Sky have brought this out with no recording capability tbh
 
seasideone said:
Yeh thats probably a fair description.

…but like the iPhone, nobody had put it in to one device before and that is what changes the game.

When other manufactures do the same, is it the end of sound bars, seperate surround sound systems etc?

(No doubt some techy will always have seperates though!)
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All available on the latest Smart TV's surely? No dish required everything is streamed via Fibre/Wifi with the receiver (box) from your supplier ...
 
Can’t see it taking off, if like me you’ve got 4 Sky a boxes, you’d presumably need 4 tvs, even someone with 2 boxes would need 2 tvs.
 
Bloodtangerine said:
No Recording capability I believe which is a massive massive drawback and a retrograde step. The recording capability of the SKYQ Box is its biggest positive factor......no recording facility is amazingly bad design as an “upgrade”

if it recorded then I’d say it’s a good enough product

Ill be sticking with SKYQ

edit to add, I can’t believe Sky have brought this out with no recording capability tbh
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It's a streaming tool. Why would you need to record? Not that I'm getting one, BTW.
 
No Recording capability I believe which is a massive massive drawback and a retrograde step. The recording capability of the SKYQ Box is its biggest positive factor......no recording facility is amazingly bad design as an “upgrade”
Bloodtangerine said:
if it recorded then I’d say it’s a good enough product

Ill be sticking with SKYQ

edit to add, I can’t believe Sky have brought this out with no recording capability tbh
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You don't need to record anything, you just stream it.
 
Bloodtangerine said:
No Recording capability I believe which is a massive massive drawback and a retrograde step. The recording capability of the SKYQ Box is its biggest positive factor......no recording facility is amazingly bad design as an “upgrade”

if it recorded then I’d say it’s a good enough product

Ill be sticking with SKYQ

edit to add, I can’t believe Sky have brought this out with no recording capability tbh
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Like Wizz says, you don't need to record anything, it's a streaming service, recording makes no sense at all.

It's just an over priced Smart TV at the end of the day with weird and over priced subscription.
 
Bloodtangerine said:
No Recording capability I believe which is a massive massive drawback and a retrograde step. The recording capability of the SKYQ Box is its biggest positive factor......no recording facility is amazingly bad design as an “upgrade”

if it recorded then I’d say it’s a good enough product

Ill be sticking with SKYQ

edit to add, I can’t believe Sky have brought this out with no recording capability tbh
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Marking content as "add to playlist" with a button on the remote (or through a Voice command) makes it available for playback on demand: as there's no local or even user-specific cloud storage*, it's a different paradigm to 'Recording'.*but there's a notional ' 1000 hour cloud capacity ' with a subscription. (copied and pasted from sky site)

I'm actually going to look into this as we live in a listed building and as such cannot have a dish on the building. Cable isn't available on our side of the road either so TalkTalk/BT has been our only option. Can stick with the broadband which we find fine and just cancel TV package and Netflix. Will take a look in store Monday.
 
Miko said:
Marking content as "add to playlist" with a button on the remote (or through a Voice command) makes it available for playback on demand: as there's no local or even user-specific cloud storage*, it's a different paradigm to 'Recording'.*but there's a notional ' 1000 hour cloud capacity ' with a subscription. (copied and pasted from sky site)

I'm actually going to look into this as we live in a listed building and as such cannot have a dish on the building. Cable isn't available on our side of the road either so TalkTalk/BT has been our only option. Can stick with the broadband which we find fine and just cancel TV package and Netflix. Will take a look in store Monday.
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I’m not sure it will be anything like as simple as that with “recordings” mate and I note they make no reference to it in all the advertising videos and bumf
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Like Wizz says, you don't need to record anything, it's a streaming service, recording makes no sense at all.

It's just an over priced Smart TV at the end of the day with weird and over priced subscription.
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I disagree ….you can’t watch MOTD for instance but it isn’t able to be streamed immediately the next day (as many programmes aren’t) but you can play a “recording” if you’ve recorded it on SKYQ
 
This gives more info as regards “recording/streaming”


www.express.co.uk

Sky Glass: The 5 things that Sky didn't tell you

Sky Glass bundles a QLED TV, a satellite dish-less Sky Q box, and a Dolby Atmos sound system into a single flatscreen panel. The new 4K TV was unveiled during a blockbuster event in London late last year. But while a lot of details about Sky Glass were revealed on-stage... Sky didn't tell you...
www.express.co.uk www.express.co.uk
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
That, my friend, is an excellent point, there must be a way around it?
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You’d hope so as surely the SKY people who built this “product” would see the glaring weakness

it mentions in one video I watched that they use “Sky’s Servers“ for this throwback streaming so perhaps the MOTD episode I refer to as an example is able to be streamed on Skyglass even though not yet available on BBC catch up services …that would make sense I guess
 
Ordered this on day of release and was installed today.

LOVE IT!

Decent 4k TV with awesome sound system built in. Virtually everything can be voice controlled instead of using remote. Very happy with it all and even the better half is happy with it (she wasn't for getting it in the first place). Would 100% recommend for anyone (like us) who cannot have a dish installed on their property. Kept original broadband supplier as they were far cheaper and it works with any broadband supplier.
 
Miko said:
Ordered this on day of release and was installed today.

LOVE IT!

Decent 4k TV with awesome sound system built in. Virtually everything can be voice controlled instead of using remote. Very happy with it all and even the better half is happy with it (she wasn't for getting it in the first place). Would 100% recommend for anyone (like us) who cannot have a dish installed on their property. Kept original broadband supplier as they were far cheaper and it works with any broadband supplier.
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How does it work with multi room?
 
It's a nice invention however I red that people are moving away from Sky. People are tired of their excruciating fees when Netflix and Amazon are just over £5 per month.

Nice for those that like having their pants pulled down for the latest gadget mind.
 
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