I wouldn’t get it purely because sound and screen are all as one unit. I have an amazing TV and surround sound system already.
Plus we’ve gone through 2 boxes recently because they kept freezing. It’s dead simple because an engineer just pops round and swaps the box out.
With a TV that’s not only huge, but you own and it’s self installation - I’m not sure how replacements would be arranged.
I don’t know really, I just say ‘play BBC 1’ or ‘the green knight’ my remote and it plays. Seems simple enough.
If anything, for my use this sky thing would add complexity. Streaming sticks collect all my content (Netflix, NowTV, Amazon Prime, Plex) into one place. This would separate out Netflix and presumably put the others in separate apps, sounds like a hassle
Just the normal ad breaks on tv
It brings them revenue
And it’s obviously not live TV, just their already aired ‘on demand’ content.
Half the fun is trying to fast forward through them and time it perfectly
Ah ok.
The worst I face with that is Prime Videos trying to push another show before the one you’ve selected.
If Netflix or Disney tried that I’d start flipping tables, but as Prime Videos is rarely touched it’s about tolerable.
Still feels a bit scummy adding ads on top of paying a subscription. Unless theres a cheap option with them and normal without. It seems upgrading to skip seems a good choice just a shame it’s not just hide automatic.
A few months later…
Upgrade to Fast forward ads Pro to auto skip for £9.99 extra
I agree but it’s not quite like that.
If you pay extra you get access to ‘on demand’ which is their catalog of previously aired shows you can watch at anytime. These are what you can fast forward through and generally there is just an advert at the beginning.
If you don’t pay extra you don’t get access to their catalogue.
HD Homerun is what you need.
Great for watching TV around the house on various apps for phone, android tv, firestick etc. I have mine linked to a plex server so can record, series link and even watch out of the house and country on it.
So a bit more like the Channel 4 where you pay £4 month to avoid them only you have to push a button to skip?
itv has the same price too
Yeah sounds similar. Sky also includes all their own series, BBC, ITV hub, All 4, and My5.
So it encompasses everything.
You kind of can if you pay for NowTV.
The Sky Glass thing strikes me as a cross between the Amstrad Emailer phone and the Facebook video calling device. Like yeah sure they both do what they advertise but I already have tech that accomplishes this and more.
But then I cancelled my decade long Sky subscription about two years ago and haven’t missed it. So arguably I’m not their audience.
Some good analysis of the pros and cons in this article.
Just noticed my fav reviewer has posted too.
Seems it basically solves a problem vs having a Sky dish. But doesn’t really offer much for the additional cost for people who don’t use sky now? So it’s about converting existing customers and improving margins more than attracting new ones.
I gotta also say, just to me in that video it looks really ugly. Why is it so wide? It looks like when they’d just invented LCDs back in the early 2000s.
Haha yeah. Frameless and super thin are the future.
I saw a video where a company had made a TV thats basically a film you stick on the the wall.
Yeah that is about 4 times wider thicker than it should be. I guess the soundbar being integrated adds some of that.
LG do those rollable ones. Although the base frame it comes out of is meaty.
