topic Re: Actually have a better playlist in Sky Glass

Actually have a better playlist

GreyDuck — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:02:06 GMT

I literally cannot be the only person thinking this ?
J have zero interest in things like celebrities, wicked, the death of billy munro, celebtrity race around the world etc so I want to stop seeing all that stuff by i.e. block celebrity dating
I bought my Glass outright so why can't we add topics that interest us etc

Re: Actually have a better playlist

MarkGoldsmith — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:49:21 GMT

@GreyDuck wrote:
I literally cannot be the only person thinking this ?
J have zero interest in things like celebrities, wicked, the death of billy munro, celebtrity race around the world etc so I want to stop seeing all that stuff by i.e. block celebrity dating
I bought my Glass outright so why can't we add topics that interest us etc

Because, unfortunately, the home screen isn't customizable.

I'm guessing the reason for this is marketing, as it enables Sky to not only promote their own shows but potentially have deals/agreements in place with the likes of Netflix or Apple TV for example to promote their content on the Home screen.

Re: Actually have a better playlist

GD1 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:11:14 GMT

@GreyDuck Not sure of the relevance that you bought it outright as all Glass TV's are owned by the customer whether it's on credit or bought outright.

However all that is irrelevant as you have bought a TV with Sky Software inside that is not customisable, none of Skys platforms have had this option be it Sky +HD, Sky Q or Sky Glass/Stream

Re: Actually have a better playlist

TimmyBGood — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:59:31 GMT

@GreyDuck wrote:

I bought my Glass outright so why can't we add topics that interest us etc

Because the television set is hardware. What's being displayed is content. and that's controlled by Sky and its partners, as is the operating system and user interface.

Re: Actually have a better playlist

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:58:42 GMT

All streaming operators push content and promote their own content above others, you may not like everything but often something pops up of interest.

Apple heavily promote their content and Amazon firestick does too but with the added feature of ADS at least with Sky they don't have advertising and if they ever do I'm off.

If you want a minimalist screen then your choice is Apple TV as they keep it very clinical to use.

Re: Actually have a better playlist

BenJoBanjo — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:03:05 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
All streaming operators push content and promote their own content above others, you may not like everything but often something pops up of interest.

Apple heavily promote their content and Amazon firestick does too but with the added feature of ADS at least with Sky they don't have advertising and if they ever do I'm off.

If you want a minimalist screen then your choice is Apple TV as they keep it very clinical to use.

100%. I find tvOS on Apple's hardware to be superior to any operating system used on any streaming device. It can be set to open to just a page of app icons with no advertising or promotion of content whatsoever.

If you want recommendations then you can easily select the Apple TV app which will serve up suggestions from all connected apps.

Re: Actually have a better playlist

Yoghurt — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:12:10 GMT

@GreyDuck Nothing wrong with the playlist feature

Re: Actually have a better playlist

stereohaven — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:32:37 GMT

@BenJoBanjo wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
All streaming operators push content and promote their own content above others, you may not like everything but often something pops up of interest.

Apple heavily promote their content and Amazon firestick does too but with the added feature of ADS at least with Sky they don't have advertising and if they ever do I'm off.

If you want a minimalist screen then your choice is Apple TV as they keep it very clinical to use.
100%. I find tvOS on Apple's hardware to be superior to any operating system used on any streaming device. It can be set to open to just a page of app icons with no advertising or promotion of content whatsoever.
If you want recommendations then you can easily select the Apple TV app which will serve up suggestions from all connected apps.

I'm surprised, you never mentioned it before! 🤣

Agree that Apple TV 4K is the gold standard in clean Home Screens, although the pushing of the MLS in the Apple TV app that no one watches can be very annoying.

I picked up an Amazon Fire TV 4K Max stick for Black Friday as I haven't tried one in ages and wanted to see how the OS is getting on. Terribly it seems! That is an ad fest of biblical proportions and was quickly returned.

Still a.big fan of the simple Roku OS and their hardware if you don't want to spend Apple money.

Ignoring the inevitable commercial side, I suspect plenty of customers actually find discovering new content via the Sky OS one of its greatest strengths.

Re: Actually have a better playlist

Yoghurt — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:36:13 GMT

@stereohaven The choice of content is great nowadays there's loads of apps to choose from and sky too great selection but if you have every going then the cost does mount up

Re: Actually have a better playlist

BenJoBanjo — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:30:01 GMT

@stereohaven wrote:
@BenJoBanjo wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
All streaming operators push content and promote their own content above others, you may not like everything but often something pops up of interest.

Apple heavily promote their content and Amazon firestick does too but with the added feature of ADS at least with Sky they don't have advertising and if they ever do I'm off.

If you want a minimalist screen then your choice is Apple TV as they keep it very clinical to use.
100%. I find tvOS on Apple's hardware to be superior to any operating system used on any streaming device. It can be set to open to just a page of app icons with no advertising or promotion of content whatsoever.
If you want recommendations then you can easily select the Apple TV app which will serve up suggestions from all connected apps.
I'm surprised, you never mentioned it before! 🤣

Wouldn't want to get banned for my Apple bias (again!)

Agree that Apple TV 4K is the gold standard in clean Home Screens, although the pushing of the MLS in the Apple TV app that no one watches can be very annoying.

I've never really noticed the MLS stuff TBH. Anything sport related gets automatically filtered out by my eyeballs. I've got a chip in my brain which removes anything with a bat, ball or people moving quickly in shorts.

I picked up an Amazon Fire TV 4K Max stick for Black Friday as I haven't tried one in ages and wanted to see how the OS is getting on. Terribly it seems! That is an ad fest of biblical proportions and was quickly returned.

100% agree. I've got both generations of 4K Max stick and neither get used apart from for research purposes. FireTV is an abomination of advertising. The creaky little remote is plasticky and horrible. It's a good thing it's cheap(ish).

Still a.big fan of the simple Roku OS and their hardware if you don't want to spend Apple money.

Yes. Had a Roku Streaming Stick 4K for a bit to try it out. Nice and clean interface but lack of FRM annoyed me and the stick itself seemed to get very hot. Returned it.

Ignoring the inevitable commercial side, I suspect plenty of customers actually find discovering new content via the Sky OS one of its greatest strengths.

Sadly I wasn't one of them. It was one of its greatest irritations for me.

Re: Actually have a better playlist

Yoghurt — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:34:06 GMT

@Anonymous Oh dear