topic Re: Upgrade to Glass/Stream or stay with Sky Q? in Sky Glass

Upgrade to Glass/Stream or stay with Sky Q?

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 08:03:02 GMT

Hi All
I’m a 10 year plus sky customer. My contracts due for renewal in a couple of months, and I’m looking at either Glass or stream as an upgrade from my Sky Q 2TB box I’ve no problem with the Sat dish, I concurrently run a Humax recorder from the same dish.
I very much like the look of Glass or indeed Stream, other than their inability to fast forward adverts for free,
As for keeping certain stuff such as movies box sets etc to watch over and over at a later time, I’ve 1TB hard drive attached to my TV for exactly this purpose.
My biggest concern is my paltry 45Mbps download speed from BT. Virgin media has just landed in my street with full fiber but I’m tied in with BT until October.
Is my speed good enough to stream effectively, or should I simply wait?
There’s quite a lot of negatives on you tube etc regarding Glass, but also some good positives too.
Who better to ask than the community for some truthful recommendations?

I look forward to your replies.

Thanks

Steve

Re: Upgrade to Glass/Stream or stay with Sky Q?

Exiled-in-HH — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 08:35:25 GMT

Consider a Puck ... do not consider a Glass TV😉

Do not consider it an upgrade but a service change🤔

Re: Upgrade to Glass/Stream or stay with Sky Q?

TimmyBGood — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:01:11 GMT

@Anonymous

Glass wasn't the greatest television even two years ago: it's now significantly over-price and over-due a successor model. Consider it if you really value the design aesthetic, want the speaker array or need the credit arrangement, otherwise better and more versatile hardware (including mini-LED and even OLED) is available at the same or lower cost to run with a Stream puck.

Remember a drive attached to a television set cannot be used to 'record' anything from Sky: it can only capture free-to-air content delivered by the tuner in the TV itself (and will not function at all with a Glass television which has no 'tuner' when viewing Sky content, no such feature in its OS and no conventional USB ports)

Re: Upgrade to Glass/Stream or stay with Sky Q?

TimmyBGood — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:25:53 GMT

@Anonymous

45Mbs delivered to a router could well be non-viable for UHD after WiFi loss and other household use, and might even cause HD to struggle.

45Mbs at the set/puck should be fine.

Re: Upgrade to Glass/Stream or stay with Sky Q?

Jones_The_Cat — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:55:16 GMT

@Anonymous

To summarise... stay with Q.

Re: Upgrade to Glass/Stream or stay with Sky Q?

Jporch316 — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:17:36 GMT

@Anonymous

Very often a provider such as Virgin media will offer to compensate early termination fees but you would need to negotiate this in advance .......

Re: Upgrade to Glass/Stream or stay with Sky Q?

Biviking — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:38:59 GMT

I agree. My sky glass is crap.

the mini boxes are good, but not without streaming issues, freezing, can't rewind,

id wait if I was you. I wish I had.

Re: Upgrade to Glass/Stream or stay with Sky Q?

Jporch316 — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:51:53 GMT

@Biviking

I dont mind sky glass ..... horses for courses as they say !

Agreed that glass is outdated and a new version would be nice (hopefully keeping the integrated sound)