Sky Glass and Sky Stream

Sky Go is now available for Apple TV, but you can’t buy it as a standalone service on it’s own at the moment - only as part of a Sky Q package.

So, the technology is already there - it’s now just a question of the market. I would suspect that once the Sky Stream launch has finished, the Sky app on other devices would be the next thing on their product list. It wouldn’t take too much to drop the ‘Go’ from Sky Go and just make it ‘Sky’ for Apple TV, Xbox, Playstation, Google TV…

Unless I’ve missed something obvious, Stream comes to £79 compared to over £100 I pay for Q.

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This is why my fiancee wont let us switch and why we didn’t switch to Glass when we wanted a new TV. The watchlist they have on Glass and Stream is just not even close to the same

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Sports, multiroom, HD and that does include superfast broadband.

My deals are expiring so I’m waiting to see what they do for Black Friday

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And ive just got another offer for Now entertainment. Three months for £15 instead of £29.97.

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I pay £50 for Sky… thats with UHD/4K, Cinema, All Box Sets + Netflix :eyes:

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No sport and no broadband, of course it will be cheaper!

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I like the idea of being able to switch Sport off over the summer whilst the football season stops, and then turn it all on again in August

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So after trying out a few channels, you can rewind back to the point you landed on that channel.

Alternatively, when you land on a channel there’s an option to watch from the start of the program that’s currently on.

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I’m obviously a cheapo. I have Now TV PL football on my mobile only for a tenner for 10 months.

I have thought about Now TV but the picture and sound quality was so balls I couldnt stick with it.
Are they up to 1080 even yet? or 4k?

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Yes, nowhere near the quality of Sky via satellite. Mind you, I’ve only tried it via a Roku, so maybe that had something to do with it.

Just ordered Sky Stream myself, moving from Sky Q. Saving £7/month by doing so. I rarely watch live TV anyway, so if the thing is rubbish for that I’m not too concerned. I’d like Sky Go to be made available just in case, however, but if that’s a Sky Q only thing it’d be a bit of a shame as I used to use it a lot :\

Looking at the Sky help pages, it suggests that Sky Go is available to those with “Sky TV packages”, and this appears to include Glass/Stream.

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It is - I use it with Sky Q. I don’t have multi-room, though, so Go won’t let me control the Sky Q box itself. I can watch channels, download on-demand to the box and set up recordings with Go, though.

Just been reading a review. The “puck” has an aerial connection, but it’s not used. I wonder if Sky will ever consider activating it in a later firmware. (No, I very much doubt it.)

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I must say, using Sky Stream is both a delight and a pain in the arse. It’s ridden with bugs which you’ll encounter at every opportunity, but when it all works, it’s actually a bloody good replacement for Sky Q. The picture quality is well worth it alone. Though I do hear that it’s not terribly good for live sports.

Does it have all the Freeview too?

Seems ok, but then you need to add UHD for £6pm and then Netflix HD for £4pm, easily adds up.

Came to £53pm for me for those basics and the fastest fttc 50meg ish.

We get 350meg virgin for £34 + £10.99 netflix which isn’t far off for the extra channels, though would want faster broadband for sure.

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Yeah, it’s one of those offers that you really need to weigh up what you use.

I use Paramount+, but there isn’t enough on Now to keep me subscribed constantly, so I’m perfectly happy to dip in and out when I have special offers. I also don’t use Netflix.

For me, it wouldn’t be a good deal, but if you do genuinely use all of them, it’s a pretty decent deal.

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They just need to bite the bullet and dispense with the need for custom hardware. Smart TV and mobile device apps by default, please.

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