[TV] Sky dishes and boxes OUT

[GoingUp]

]I disagree, I'm afraid. Just this week, with very heavy rain, my satellite dish was unable to pick up the signal, so the picture dropped out / went blocky / stalled etc, several times.[/B]

I have had Virgin in the past, and they are just as dependent on the cables not getting broken as Sky are planning to be.

And even the old-fashoined TV mast broadcasting analogue signals is not immune from failure - just ask the million+ viewers in Noth Yorkshire, many of whom are still without a picture months later.

Any of the systems above can and do work very well - until something goes wrong. With the current main options available, the satellite dish approach seems to me to be a more robust one than the BT landline approach that I believe Sky are trying to switch some viewers to. But, in time, I imagine a variation on cable TV will become the norm, at least until the next technological breakthrough. maybe 6G or 7G will have the bandwidth to deliver UHD+ to every TV set?

Yeah mine has done this on occasion but tbh its rare and overall is miles better than streaming (for sports).

 

[GoingUp]

Curious. The picture quality, for me at least, on Amazon is superb. Their initial offerings were as you describe but subsequently they have upped their game a lot.

For me the ball was a blurry when kicked or moving at speed and lagged and was jerky at times

For boxing on DAZN the build up shows are always laggy/jerky but thankfully the actual shows seem to sort themselves out but the picture is never near the level of Sky and does get 'jerky' at times during the fights.

It all depends on area, wifi spped and luck, like how many people are viewing at one time.

 

[METALMICKY]

Very interesting article that pushes through the Sky hype and points out some issues.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sky-glass

 

[dwayne]

This rubbish is out today!

1 minute delay..... .and very very expensive



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[Goring-by-Seagull]

This rubbish is out today!

1 minute delay..... .and very very expensive



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I guess it's quite good for people who don't already have Sky or a 4K TV. Having the price of the TV included in your monthly payments like a phone contract would surely appeal to people.

Possibly pricey yes - but anyone who has Sky Q and Sports/Movie channels is probably paying north of 70 a month anyway? We have all this and it was about 90 quid until we got it knocked down a bit. No idea what it is now though.

 

[Jam The Man]

Any purchasers able to review this? I’m erring on NOT getting it as my current set up is ok.

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

Mines coming in 10 days, looks cracking.

 

[Easy 10]

I wouldn't wish to be ENTIRELY reliant on streaming services. Internet goes down with Sky Glass = no TV. Kaputt. Plus, I'm really, really picky on my TVs, the spec, the appearance of it and all that. I don't want to be stuck with one of Sky's generic 3-size offerings.

Not for me, Clive.

 

[Easy 10]

So did anyone invest in Sky Glass ?

I'm seeing a lot of grizzles about picture freeze, sound outage, sound out of synch with the picture, loss of several channels, local news no longer supported, plus of course you can't record (as such). All sounds like a bit of a NAUSE.

 

[Superphil]

Any purchasers able to review this? I’m erring on NOT getting it as my current set up is ok.

I returned mine for two reasons. The sound isn’t anywhere near as good as my multi speaker surround sound setup, and there was no way to output a 5.1 signal to my existing setup, well, the Sky engineer nor I could work out how to do it, would only work on my front speakers, not the rears or the subwoofer. The picture quality just wasn’t as good as my OLED TV.

That said I think it’s a very good piece of kit, everything worked exactly as described, plug one lead into the mains, put in your WiFi password and it’s working. If they improve the picture quality and add a sound output option I’ll go for one for sure, really convenient concept.

 

[Mortdecai]

Just got struck by a wave of nostalgia. Not seen a satellite dish for ten years.

I have a 2.4 metre dish in my garden still. I put it in when we moved to the property so that I could recieve Sky. Haven’t had Sky for several years now.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I bought a new 55'' TV with my Covid savings last year. Normally keep a TV for about 10 years. Happy with my Sky dish and all the wires are behind the wall including HDMI's to the Sky box. I absolutely can't see any benefit to me at all.

 

[Jam The Man]

Friend of mine is a Sky engineer. He always gets the new kit before anyone, but has not done so this time, and has strongly advised me to wait a couple of years.

Regardless, this hasn’t stopped Sky seeing waaaaay more Sky Glass sets than they expected too.

 

[Easy 10]

I bought a new 55'' TV with my Covid savings last year. Normally keep a TV for about 10 years. Happy with my Sky dish and all the wires are behind the wall including HDMI's to the Sky box. I absolutely can't see any benefit to me at all.

I'm struggling to see the benefit as well. The BIG DEAL about it seems to be there's no dish or Sky box. Neither of which bother me in the slightest. I've got a nice black glass-fronted cabinet which hides away the Sky Q box, all the wires are tucked away, and the dish outside - well, who cares about that ? Out of sight, out of mind.

Whats the trade-off. How is Glass an upgrade on Sky Q ?

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

4 months on, it’s a cracking bit of kit. Picture and sound quality keeps blowing us away. Lots of friends and family have commented on how good it is. Anyone that’s thinking of getting one, do it, you won’t be disappointed.

 

[clapham_gull]

I'm struggling to see the benefit as well. The BIG DEAL about it seems to be there's no dish or Sky box. Neither of which bother me in the slightest. I've got a nice black glass-fronted cabinet which hides away the Sky Q box, all the wires are tucked away, and the dish outside - well, who cares about that ? Out of sight, out of mind.

Whats the trade-off. How is Glass an upgrade on Sky Q ?

Inevitably when the technology catches up (and they minimise the delay) TV companies are not going to invest in sticking a chunk of metal into space with a rocket to broadcast a television signal.

Neither are they going to send out plastic boxes with a hard drive in case someone wants to "record" something.

SKY are an odd company in an odd place. They know they need to ditch the hardware side of things but then invest in a whole new raft of hardware which very quickly gets out of date.

 

[BN9 BHA]

4 months on, it’s a cracking bit of kit. Picture and sound quality keeps blowing us away. Lots of friends and family have commented on how good it is. Anyone that’s thinking of getting one, do it, you won’t be disappointed.

I won’t be changing over to it as i don’t want to encourage lots of friends and family round to watch my tv…..

 

[Napper]

4 months on, it’s a cracking bit of kit. Picture and sound quality keeps blowing us away. Lots of friends and family have commented on how good it is. Anyone that’s thinking of getting one, do it, you won’t be disappointed.

Similar for me. Picture and sound exceptional. Sound is better than any Tv I've owned with sound bars. Numerous comments from friends and family about both.

Really good the ease of very quickly toggling between ... Amazon Prime , ITV/BBC.all4 players / Netflix / Spotify / HDMI inputs for (cough) streaming devices , youtube etc etc , can literally toggle to them and back in seconds. No more source changes

The record functionality a slight negative but once you get used to adding playlists which bookmark the programs you want to record , you can then just view back easily enough

For the type of viewer I am ( rarely watching standard channels/programs at the time they first air ) , I'd recommend it

 

[Official Old Man]

They had one on display at Ikea. Screen said something like 'no internet no picture'.
Put me straight off.

 

[GOM]

The sound isn’t anywhere near as good as my multi speaker surround sound setup, and there was no way to output a 5.1 signal to my existing setup, well, the Sky engineer nor I could work out how to do it, would only work on my front speakers, not the rears or the subwoofer.

Surprise surprise !!

The picture quality just wasn’t as good as my OLED TV.

Surprise surprise !!

Why did you bother in the first place ?