Sky to launch Sky Q without dish by Xmas based on Xfinity X1 box

[fizzdisco]

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@bob1234 wrote:

What I find more interesting is that Sky seem to be negotiating with Virgin to use their fibre network, if that happens it would make me more likely to move from BT to Sky unless BT can also supply FTTP rather than FTTC as they currently do at our address.

Virgin have just started to cable our road.

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Interesting... Virgin cable has been on my road for over a decade but I've always resisted it, despite the various recent offers for their Gigabit fibre. If a partnership with Sky brings the price down then I may be tempted, though I can't actually fault my existing Sky FTTC connection - it's been rock solid for years. 

[simon194]

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@best+of+the+best wrote:

If rented they should come with a coin meter attached to stop people selling them on Auction sites 🤣🤣🤣 

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Coin operated rental TV's, I remember them back in the 60s and 70s. It was an option Radio Rentals (I think it was) offered.

[bob1234]

@simon194It was available in London and Sheffield in the 1960s, the first cable TV in the UK. I believe it started in Canada. I remember it but not the company, it might have been "pay TV" or something like that.

Easier to hack you just had to jam the mechanical timer, some foreign coins did it, found that by accident.

[Silver+Surfer+64]

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@simon194 wrote:

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@best+of+the+best wrote:

If rented they should come with a coin meter attached to stop people selling them on Auction sites 🤣🤣🤣 

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Coin operated rental TV's, I remember them back in the 60s and 70s. It was an option Radio Rentals (I think it was) offered.

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Haha, yeah, I can remember we got one of those coin-operated TV's back in 1970, it was big and bulky, as I recall and it blew up a few years later, although not before I got to see all of those great early 70s shows like Timeslip, Ace of Wands and Escape Into Night etc. Does anyone else here remember those shows?🙂

[CyberFriday]

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@Silver+Surfer+64 wrote:

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@simon194 wrote:

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@best+of+the+best wrote:

If rented they should come with a coin meter attached to stop people selling them on Auction sites 🤣🤣🤣 

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Coin operated rental TV's, I remember them back in the 60s and 70s. It was an option Radio Rentals (I think it was) offered.

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Haha, yeah, I can remember we got one of those coin-operated TV's back in 1970, it was big and bulky, as I recall and it blew up a few years later, although not before I got to see all of those great early 70s shows like Timeslip, Ace of Wands and Escape Into Night etc. Does anyone else here remember those shows?🙂

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@Silver+Surfer+64 A blast from the past and before my time. I trust you weren't into making ice moulds of 10p coins to feed the meter... 😉

[NickNewark]

The 10 pences also

supplied the electric meter. So you were stuffed if they both ran out. You haven't lived unless you lived in the 70's . If the broadband goes off for 10 minutes nowadays it's a drama. 😂

[Pogit]

Sky tweeted then deleted

It's almost time. The magic is about to be revealed. Be one of the first to see it.

🗓️ Today
⏰ 9am BST
📍 Watch live at sky.com/glass

#MadeOfMagic

All I've  got via that link the last few days is 

Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://www.sky.com/glass" on this server.

Reference ....."

[tarbat]

Goto www.sky.com/glass  

The streaming TV from Sky

From £13 a month

Includes 43" TV with 48m interest free loan. Subject to status & credit check. Sky Ultimate TV (31 day contract) also required.

[Invisiblename]

The link is live now

[Pogit]

Oh don't like it states 

The only TV with Sky Inside. So you can stream every channel, show and app over WiFi. No dish. No box. No fuss.

M you'd have to be mad to buy a TV like that but it does look like it's a rental 

[fizzdisco]

What a pile of.

It's basically the TV Apple considered making about 5 years ago and then thought the better of...

I'll pass thanks.

[bob1234]

@PogitI think it is a purchase although of course if you cancel Sky it will no longer work with Sky.

Without seeing all the specs it is not a bad buy.

The rumours said there were 3 sizes but there does not seem to be three.

[GD1]

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@bob1234 wrote:

@PogitI think it is a purchase although of course if you cancel Sky it will no longer work with Sky.

Without seeing all the specs it is not a bad buy.

The rumours said there were 3 sizes but there does not seem to be three.

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43", 55" & 65"

[rscott]

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@bob1234 wrote:

@PogitI think it is a purchase although of course if you cancel Sky it will no longer work with Sky.

Without seeing all the specs it is not a bad buy.

The rumours said there were 3 sizes but there does not seem to be three.

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The T&C say it's a sale, not rental and also that there are 3 sizes available. 

[tarbat]

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@bob1234 wrote:

@PogitI think it is a purchase although of course if you cancel Sky it will no longer work with Sky.

Without seeing all the specs it is not a bad buy.

The rumours said there were 3 sizes but there does not seem to be three.

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Specs are available at https://www.sky.com/glass/technical-specifications/65inch?contract=48months&irct=glassHome-glass-tec...