Not so smarter Sky Glass? Without package. Adding Cube.

[Biggles123]

I cancelled Sky TV subscription on my Glass a year ago (cost and frustration with sky marketing).  I thought I was still paying for a Smarter than Smart TV, but no, it's a poor TV although a good monitor.

So I tried to re-subscribe to SkyTV - there is no option unless you buy another Glass!

So I am going the Amazon CubeTV route (like a big AppleTV puck) and will plug into HDMI.

But...I still can't get live TV channels because the Glass DTV tuner is very sensitive to aerial signal quality, so what is the best way to get streamed Freeview?  I am thinking a DVTR with Freeview built in, and pass in into the HDMI in on the cube.

Anyone else in the same boat? 

[Mark39]

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@Biggles123 wrote:

So I tried to re-subscribe to SkyTV - there is no option unless you buy another Glass!

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Did you call? I don't believe that's the case

[Biggles123]

Well I didn't call Sky to re-add, as it was at night, but I looked everywhere online to do it and it's not an option listed.

So I gave up and bought a Cube.

But need to activate Atmos and check if I play Atmos audio via HDMI that it will work.

[peter-marlow+1966]

If you ring sky you can resubscribe  to the streaming  

[TimmyBGood]

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@Biggles123 wrote:

 what is the best way to get streamed Freeview?  I am thinking a DVTR with Freeview built in, and pass in into the HDMI in on the cube.

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Freeview isn't streamed: by definition it's digital terrestrial television broadcast from masts.  The online adjunct to broadcast Freeview is Freeview Play, and its eventual online-only replacement will be the Freely app.

[Chrisee]

@Biggles123 if a device outputs audio over HDMI with Atmos the Glass TV should play it. The UHD/Atmos pack you pay for is to get access to Sky's content not to enable the hardware.

[Biggles123]

Both excellent information, thank you.

I am getting my core 'live' channels today from the respective apps: iPlayer, ITVx, 4, Five etc.

The Freely App will be welcome and hopefully will be on my new Cube before it gets onto Glass.

A Freeview DVTR might tune to my aerial signal better than the Glass TV, and hence stream it via the Cube, but I won't know til I try.  Worst case, I fix my aerial or replace the coax cable run to get the signal quality.  I just miss being able to record live TV or schedule recording something I see in the epg guide (typically a Film4 film).

Really good to hear you think the ATMOS audio should work and isn't key locked by Sky 😳

[Biggles123]

"If you ring sky you can resubscribe  to the streaming"

Maybe, but it was so hard to find out online what that cost might be, I figured a sky agent just wouldn't get these requests often. I still don't know and bought the cube instead.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Biggles123 wrote:

The Freely App will be welcome and hopefully will be on my new Cube before it gets onto Glass.

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Freely is a rather odd one: it's currently only being made available preinstalled on a limited range of television hardware.

https://www.freely.co.uk/products/televisions 

[Exiled-in-HH]

Sky Glass TVs do not support Freeview, they only support access to DTT broadcast channels via a terrestrial aerial😉

[Biggles123]

Very happy so far with my Cube TV connected to Sky Glass. 

ATMOS seems to work, the TV definition is good. Not managed to link the remote control with the TV yet but the voice control button for the cube works in the apps which save a lot of typing.

There is even a Live TV epg type page which shows most that you need (except BBC which you still need to got to iPlayer for.

Sky News is there free, if you can stand all the ads.

Sorted for Xmas.