topic Re: Unimpressed with sky glass in Sky Glass

Unimpressed with sky glass

Cb45 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:31:05 GMT

Having recently so called upgraded to sky glass have found I am totally unimpressed and am really regretting ever entertaining it. Recording is now at someone else's discretion plus one and catch up no longer exist navigating menus are tedious. Whereas the Skyq I had previously was much more user friendly if sky glass is the future then I think it is time for me to seriously explore other options as my first impressions of having sky glass are certainly not favourable and I am definatly not impressed

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

Jporch316 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:41:37 GMT

@Cb45 wrote:
Having recently so called upgraded to sky glass have found I am totally unimpressed and am really regretting ever entertaining it. Recording is now at someone else's discretion plus one and catch up no longer exist navigating menus are tedious. Whereas the Skyq I had previously was much more user friendly if sky glass is the future then I think it is time for me to seriously explore other options as my first impressions of having sky glass are certainly not favourable and I am definatly not impressed

no need for +1 channels when you have the watch from start option available on almost every channel. I did miss them when I switched to glass but no longer do!

the system is built around all of the catch up services so not sure why this is an issue to you ?

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

Ellie_TV — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:32:21 GMT

@Cb45 wrote:
Having recently so called upgraded to sky glass have found I am totally unimpressed and am really regretting ever entertaining it. Recording is now at someone else's discretion plus one and catch up no longer exist navigating menus are tedious. Whereas the Skyq I had previously was much more user friendly if sky glass is the future then I think it is time for me to seriously explore other options as my first impressions of having sky glass are certainly not favourable and I am definatly not impressed

It can take a while to get used to having a fully streamed TV service rather than a hard drive recording type service.

We have been a fully streamed household for over a year now after many years of having Sky+HD and Sky Q. We had initial reservations about losing the ability to record but have since changed how we watch TV and now find that it is second nature to search for everything we want to watch on demand. No need to managed recordings any more - everything is just there.

Sky Glass is not necessarily the future, but streaming TV most certainly is. Yes, it is taking Sky quite a while to get up to speed with providing a good, reliable streaming service, but it also took a while for them to get Sky Q in a good stable condition.

The other good thing about streaming is that Sky can offer it by different means. You can have the Glass TV if you want the all-in-one solution (a new v2 Glass TV is apparently to be revealed in a few weeks time) or you can have the Sky Stream puck and attach it to any TV you like. Or you can use the Now TV app on any other streaming device to receive Sky programming. It's great to have options.

The whole streaming TV world is evolving rapidly and Sky does have a lot more competition these days so it's no longer in the unique position of having the satellite TV market sewn up.

If you really don't like Sky Glass then you can return it easily within 31days of delivery. You can revert to Sky Q if you wish and then perhaps wait to see what the second generation of Sky Glass brings.

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

FMK — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:45:36 GMT

I agree. Sky glass only works if you have the rights to access programmes on some sort of catch up. I used to watch/record BBC programmes a lot but with sky glass because you can't access BBC iPlayer it's only possible to watch BBC programmes live which is a massive disadvantage and not one explained before I signed up.

Also I am constantly having problems with one of the sky pucks not working

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

Jporch316 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:50:11 GMT

@FMK wrote:
I agree. Sky glass only works if you have the rights to access programmes on some sort of catch up. I used to watch/record BBC programmes a lot but with sky glass because you can't access BBC iPlayer it's only possible to watch BBC programmes live which is a massive disadvantage and not one explained before I signed up.

Also I am constantly having problems with one of the sky pucks not working

Sky glass has bbc iPlayer in built ?

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

TimmyBGood — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:08:05 GMT

@FMK wrote:

with sky glass because you can't access BBC iPlayer it's only possible to watch BBC programmes live which is a massive disadvantage and not one explained before I signed up

All BBC on-demand is delivered through iPlayer on Glass & Stream: we're watching it right now.

https://www.sky.com/help/articles/apps-on-sky-q-and-glass-bbc-iplayer

Sky would not have released an online platform which didn't have iPlayer access.

" Sky Glass offers multiple ways across the Sky Glass ecosystem to access programmes in BBC iPlayer. You can also directly access BBC iPlayer either via the red button (on a BBC channel) and by selecting BBC iPlayer in the Apps section."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/questions/getting-started-with-bbc-iplayer/sky

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

FMK — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:55:12 GMT

It doesn't allow access to iPlayer if you live in Ireland. I appreciate that is done to the BBC's rules but this is not explained before you move across so you have to watch BBC live. With SkyQ I could record the programmes

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

TimmyBGood — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 17:00:14 GMT

@FMK

Fair enough, but access to BBC content in RoI is more based on history than technology.

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

Exiled-in-HH — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 07:37:27 GMT

@FMK wrote:
It doesn't allow access to iPlayer if you live in Ireland. I appreciate that is done to the BBC's rules but this is not explained before you move across so you have to watch BBC live. With SkyQ I could record the programmes

Streaming has allowed content creators to regain control of their content ... which they had lost in the era of VCRs and DVRs😉

Sky Ireland could pay the BBC to have access to BBC catch up🤔

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

Dp325 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 07:39:41 GMT

You also can't watch Racing TV on Sky Glass. Live sport seems to be behind as well which is frustrating.

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

Exiled-in-HH — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 07:45:30 GMT

@Dp325 wrote:
You also can't watch Racing TV on Sky Glass. Live sport seems to be behind as well which is frustrating.

That's down to a decision by Racing TV😉

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

Dp325 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 07:52:35 GMT

Yes understand that but still a reason why sky glass is inferior

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

FMK — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 14:27:07 GMT

wish they would....

Re: Unimpressed with sky glass

MarkGoldsmith — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 14:32:15 GMT

@Dp325 wrote:
Live sport seems to be behind as well which is frustrating.

That due to nature of streaming rather than satelliete broadcasting.

Sky have been working on improving the technology to reduce the delay, with a low latency version of Sky Sports Main Event has been broadcasting for several months now which has the delay at only a couple of seconds behind the traditional satellite broadcast. Sky do have plans to roll that out to the rest of their sports channels, however i'm not aware of any current plans from WDB to invest in that same technology to improve the latency on TNT or Eurosport.