topic Re: Sky go doesn’t work when Xbox connected to a monitor instead of a tv in Sky Go

Sky go doesn’t work when Xbox connected to a monitor instead of a tv

damienshevlin — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:40:21 GMT

I connect my Xbox to a monitor instead of a tv and when this is the case Sky go won't work on the monitor. When I connect to a tv it works just fine. Is there any reason for this? It used to work I think at some stage. The monitor is a Lenovo G27c-10.

Anyone any ideas or help?

Re: Sky go doesn’t work when Xbox connected to a monitor instead of a tv

Annie+UK — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:42:37 GMT

HDCP? TVs have HDCP and only some monitors do

Re: Sky go doesn’t work when Xbox connected to a monitor instead of a tv

damienshevlin — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 19:23:34 GMT

Would it not come up with a warning to say this is the case?

Re: Sky go doesn’t work when Xbox connected to a monitor instead of a tv

TimmyBGood — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 09:26:59 GMT

@damienshevlin wrote:

Would it not come up with a warning to say this is the case?

Not necessarily, no. As @Annie+UK indicates, it's the most likely reason (Q does require HDCP) and this page would seem to indicate that particularly monitor doesn't have it, which would seem to be a rather odd choice by Lenovo.

Re: Sky go doesn’t work when Xbox connected to a monitor instead of a tv

damienshevlin — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:38:33 GMT

Thanks for that. I can understand if I was connecting my Q box but seems odd when running through Xbox. Any idea if there could be a work around?

Re: Sky go doesn’t work when Xbox connected to a monitor instead of a tv

Annie+UK — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:45:09 GMT

Xbox still has HDCP it needs to for DVD/Bluray etc... it looks like any video outputting app can take advantage of the extra security HDCP provides

I would think that the majority of xboxes are connected to a TV and not a monitor

Re: Sky go doesn’t work when Xbox connected to a monitor instead of a tv

damienshevlin — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:49:29 GMT

If I tried playing a dvd/blu ray through monitor would there be problems too?

Re: Sky go doesn’t work when Xbox connected to a monitor instead of a tv

TimmyBGood — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:53:14 GMT

@damienshevlin

Probably, yes: commercial optical disks will almost always require HDCP as a fundamental anti-piracy measure.

Re: Sky go doesn’t work when Xbox connected to a monitor instead of a tv

Annie+UK — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:53:50 GMT

@damienshevlin wrote:

If I tried playing a dvd/blu ray through monitor would there be problems too?

There is a very big probability that you'll have a problem, anything that requires HDCP will fail if the display does not have HDCP, this is to prevent the pirating of copy protected content