topic Re: Sky glass is poor in Sky Glass

Sky glass is poor

Biviking — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:36:52 GMT

So as a loyal sky customer of many many years I am so disappointed with the sky glass TV. The concept is great, and I'm sure apps are the way forward to view content. BUT

the picture quality is crap. I've tried to amend settings to recommended. The backlight black stripes are still there especially when watching footballs

the picture often freezes when you rewind content and then you have to reboot.

I've heard this all before.....

reset the Tv. Do this do that.

yea, I do have the latest software.

my LG led Tv is far more superior and it doesn't claim to be OLED. Sky glass is NOT OLED QUALITY.

I feel I'm paying for a Tv that falls well below the quality I was expecting. Who cares that it was made carbon neutral? It doesn't make me feel any better whe. You cannot just play a film....

sound quality is great, so only useful if you are VI. .

Re: Sky glass is poor

TimmyBGood — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:50:20 GMT

@Biviking wrote:

my LG led Tv is far more superior and it doesn't claim to be OLED. Sky glass is NOT OLED QUALITY.

Glass never claimed to be OLED. It's QLED, which is an entirely different display panel technology to OLED.

Having said that, Glass was not a particular great QLED even at launch, and that was over two years ago.

OLED: Organic Light Emitting Diode (an actual thing)

QLED: 'Quantum Dot LED' (a marketing name invented by Samsung in 2016, who were losing business to LG OLED televisions at the time: the very similar initials may not be entirely a coincidence)

Re: Sky glass is poor

Biviking — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:45:05 GMT

Same difference.

Re: Sky glass is poor

TimmyBGood — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:47:34 GMT

@Biviking

No, really not at all.

Re: Sky glass is poor

TimmyBGood — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:43:53 GMT

@Biviking

https://www.whathifi.com/advice/oled-vs-qled-which-best-tv-technology

https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/qled-vs-oled/

https://www.ign.com/articles/oled-vs-qled

Re: Sky glass is poor

MarkGoldsmith — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:17:58 GMT

As others have pointed out, the Sky Glass is essentially old technology in the world of TV as it was built/designed 3-4 years ago and so far hasn't been upgraded with a new model. There really is no comparision when comparing it with the bigger manufacturers more recent TVs of the past couple of years.

Re: Sky glass is poor

Exiled-in-HH — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:57:04 GMT

There was years of rumours of an Apple Television ... they saw sense and never released one.... perhaps Comcast (Sky) should have learned from Apple and left TV manufacturing to TV manufacturers🤔

Re: Sky glass is poor

TimmyBGood — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:53:26 GMT

@Exiled-in-HH wrote:

There was years of rumours of an Apple Television ... they saw sense and never released one....

https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/buy-mac/pro-display-xdr

That and an Apple TV 4K box?

There's even some change from £5K to buy a soundbar ; )

Re: Sky glass is poor

Exiled-in-HH — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:52:33 GMT

.... but never released a television😉😂😉

Re: Sky glass is poor

TimmyBGood — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 19:08:00 GMT

@Exiled-in-HH

Actually, thirty years ago...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_TV

Re: Sky glass is poor

Exiled-in-HH — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 18:32:45 GMT

Great TVs 🤣😂🤣

Re: Sky glass is poor

buddy222 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 08:02:11 GMT

Totally agree the picture is rubbish I sometimes wonder if it's actually UHD because my samsung tv in the bedroom which is coming off an ariel in the loft is way better.

Re: Sky glass is poor

TimmyBGood — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:23:09 GMT

@buddy222 wrote:

I sometimes wonder if it's actually UHD

Glass has a UHD panel, so the picture is by definition 'UHD' (containing 3840 x 2160 pixels). The global manufacture of large HD panels ceased some time ago as there's just no market for those any more.

That doesn't mean the source material is 4K, though, (most isn't) and the silicon which the Glass set contains to do its upscaling was fairly budget three years ago.

Re: Sky glass is poor

marty64-- — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 08:29:35 GMT

i have had sky glass now for about a year and its been nothing but trouble, just wished id stayed with the q version.

dont get it if you are thinking of it, not worth it

Re: Sky glass is poor

Adrian235 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:02:40 GMT

I agree the Glass is outdated rubbish. The picture quality is significantly inferior to the 6-year old Sony Bravo it replaced. I am really regretting ordering it but I guess I'm stuck with it.

The sound quality is nothing special but because Sky were saving pennies by not having an Optical output I need to use eARC through HDMI 2 to feed my Bose sound system. This comes with its own Glass induced issues as HDMI 2 randomly drops out and it reverts to the built in ( not so good) speakers.

I would happily swap the Glass for a Puck

Re: Sky glass is poor

Mark39 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:11:44 GMT

@Adrian235 wrote:
The sound quality is nothing special but because Sky were saving pennies by not having an Optical output I need to use eARC through HDMI 2 to feed my Bose sound system. This comes with its own Glass induced issues as HDMI 2 randomly drops out and it reverts to the built in ( not so good) speakers.

Odd. I don't have that issue with my eARC-connected sound system.

Re: Sky glass is poor

buddy222 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:18:32 GMT

The problem with this glass tv that its no way HD, i gave the tv away before i even finished paying for it, now have a Samsung tv and the difference is unbelievable.

Re: Sky glass is poor

TimmyBGood — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:49:32 GMT

@buddy222 wrote:

The problem with this glass tv that its no way HD

That's correct: Glass has a UHD panel.

Unfortunately it's at best a mid-range panel from 2021, and any 2024 model at similar pricing should absolutely be expected to be 'better'.

Re: Sky glass is poor

Jojo61 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:23:40 GMT

I completely agree regarding the worst decision I ever made going from Sky Q to Sky Glass. The amount of times I have to turn off the power because it's frozen and won't react to any buttons on the remote. I actually don't care about the technology I just want to be able to watch TV without all the issues