topic Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv? in Sky Glass

No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

Proygray — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:19:57 GMT

Is there anyway to connect USB to a Sky Glass TV?

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

TimmyBGood — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:29:01 GMT

No: the USB-C port on the v1 and v2 Glass is only for the Sky Live camera.

Glass v2 also has a USB-A,, port for an external Conditional Access Module.

Neither can access external storage. The workaround is to have an external device connected over HDMI which has its own USB port.

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

Proygray — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:30:20 GMT

I understand there is no direct connection but is there a HDMI/USB connector?

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

TimmyBGood — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:50:35 GMT

@Proygray

There's no such adapter: you need a device which has an operating system that can mount USB storage and read its file format, and then do something with the files themselves such as play back video. Some Blu-ray players can do this.

Note that there's no way to record anything from Glass onto USB even if such a device is attached.

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

Proygray — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:51:01 GMT

Thanks but if I'd known about this problem before, I would not have bought it and kept my 65" Toshiba which had all the connections!

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

TimmyBGood — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:01:09 GMT

@Proygray

Sky has never advertised USB functionality.

What is it that you want to be able to do?

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

Proygray — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:05:58 GMT

True, but I just assumed all tvs had that connectivity as all my previous tvs did.

I have lots of movies saved on my computer that I have transferred to USB to watch on tv.

I just want to he able to carry on watching them on tv!

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

Jporch316 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:59 GMT

@Proygray wrote:
True, but I just assumed all tvs had that connectivity as all my previous tvs did.
I have lots of movies saved on my computer that I have transferred to USB to watch on tv.
I just want to he able to carry on watching them on tv!

I have some home videos that are on a usb stick . I use my Xbox connected to my glass tv to play them. Cheaper alternatives that you can plug into the glass tv are some blue ray players have usb and on built players, or a firestick with plex app which can link to your pc and play files stored on there.

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

Proygray — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:45:22 GMT

Thanks for your reply. Have you any ideas of the type of (cheap!) blu ray machines that would work? I have a Blu Ray disc player but it doesn't have any 'extra' sockets.

Regards

Peter

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

Jporch316 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:49:46 GMT

Not sure if I'm allowed to post this or not ?

argos have one - search blu ray player then sort by price

you are looking for blu ray player with a usb

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

paul+m1972 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:52:08 GMT

Set up Plex on your PC, get a fire stick to plug into your TV and watch through that.

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

Proygray — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:00:55 GMT

Thank you, although I have no idea what a 'Plex' is. However I have solved the problem by purchasing a DVD Player that connects to the TV via HDMI, and has a USB input.

Regards Peter

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

TimmyBGood — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:39:59 GMT

@Proygray wrote:

I have no idea what a 'Plex' is.

Plex is an app which can act as a streaming media player for content on USB storage or local network drives (amongst other things)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plex

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

TheTZR — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:25:52 GMT

Sky must be the only TV supplier that doesn't allow hdd or dvd connection. Pathetic. I have 5 hdd's with over 1500 films on them and DVD player for my 100's of DVD. Can't play a single one on my daughters Sky Glass gen 1 tv, what a waste of money. Bloody joke.

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

Angel_Aka — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:43:01 GMT

@TheTZR wrote:
Sky must be the only TV supplier that doesn't allow hdd or dvd connection. Pathetic. I have 5 hdd's with over 1500 films on them and DVD player for my 100's of DVD. Can't play a single one on my daughters Sky Glass gen 1 tv, what a waste of money. Bloody joke.

DVD Players are old technology. They only output standard definition video, normally through older analogue SCART connectors which have been phased out of all smart TVs manufactured in the past 10 years or so. More modern BluRay and 4K BluRay players connect digitally via HDMI and will playback and upscale DVD's. These can easily be connected to a Sky Glass TV.

Attaching HDDs were never part of Sky's plans for Glass. It's a unique streaming TV, entirely designed for Sky's own SkyOS platform. They want you to stream movies directly either via Sky's own Sky Cinema service or Sky Store. There is no media player software on the TV for playing third party video files.

Many BluRay players do have such software though, and many have USB ports. Why not kill 2 birds with one stone and buy one? It'll allow you to both play your DVDs and movies from your HDDs when connected via HDMI to a Glass (or any other smart) TV.

Re: No USB connection available on sky glass tv?

TimmyBGood — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:03:46 GMT

@TheTZR wrote:

Can't play a single one on my daughters Sky Glass gen 1 tv, what a waste of money. Bloody joke.

The Gen 1 was released in October 2021 and discontinued in February 2025: the limitations of its specification and operating system really shouldn't be a surprise by now.

As @Angel_Aka indicates, Glass has always been intended as a custom platform for the consumption of subscription content from Sky and their app partners.