Sky Glass Blooming really bad

[SquareEyes86]

Can anyone see a Glass 2 next year? 4 years will have past by then and an upgrade option was talked about at the launch conference in 2021. If you were to bet money on it, will it continue  with a new model or be quietly shelved and sit next to the likes of Sky Gnome. 

[Elbo28]

@TimmyBGood Please accept my apologies then. I thought you were making excuses for Sky.

There are even more people going to buy it now, as I've seen they've started to sell them in Currys, which at £17 a month for the 55" set looks like an attractive proposition. I hope people do the research that the early adopters couldn't do. I, for one, researched in depth before settling on the LG C4 as a replacement. If I could've done the same when I signed up for the Sky Glass, I would have steered right clear of it

[Elbo28]

@SquareEyes86 I'm afraid that'd be too little, too late for me. I've already upgraded as I couldn't put up with it anymore. Like you said, once you've seen it, you can't unsee it, and you notice it more and more. I've also been burned by Sky with this set so I wouldn't trust them again, and I'd probably caution other people to steer clear as well

[Hobbayne64]

I really regret getting rid of my sky Q. for this rubbish. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with it now till the end of my term.. 

[Elbo28]

It's the one piece of tech that I really regret buying. I feel conned by Sky. What was marketed as a good mid-range TV has turned out to be a bargain basement TV in a high end aluminium chassis

[Elbo28]

• Just popped back to say I've taken delivery of the LG C4 and an LG Atmos Soundbar and Speakers, and both the picture and the sound are Poles apart. I've had them for about a week and a half and I'm still in awe of how good it looks. Imagine the jump from a CRT 480p to HD 1080p when it first came out, and you'll get the idea. I was expecting that though. What I wasn't expecting was the sound. A big selling point with the Glass was it having an inbuilt Dolby Atmos soundbar, which made watching movies more immersive and cinematic. Well, it turns out that compared to a dedicated Dolby Atmos/DTX speaker array, the Glass sounds like it has a cheap £50 Soundbar from Argos. The sound is rich, crystal clear, and room filling, even without the volume being to high. The bass from the Subwoofer has that low and meaty rumble, dialogue is crystal clear, and the way it works in synergy with the TV and rear speakers makes you feel like you're in a dome of sound. I hope anybody that has found this thread while tempted to buy a Glass to pause and really think about it. I know £17 a month sounds attractive, but for that money, you can buy yourself an infinitely better visual experience, and for a bit more you can add true cinema-like sound. All you need from Sky is the streaming puck to be able to have Atmos sound. You'll regret buying the Glass, especially when you're in the third year of your contract, and you realise that even when you want to replace the TV, you can't even sell the things as without the subscription they're essentially useless. Even CeX will only pay you £100 for your 55" one

[Jporch316]

@Elbo28 

Im not surprised the glass sounds inferior to a dedicated atmos sound system .... for the average user with a bottom of the range soundbar it's just as good if

not better. It's certainly the best built in sound of any tv I have ever come across. 

[Elbo28]

It's the fact that it was marketed as having amazing sound, when as you said it's the same or just slightly better than a bog standard soundbar.  My point is that you can get much better than Sky Glass for around about the same price

[mrwwt]

Most people don't notice this... beyond that, most of those who do notice, don't care... then that leaves a tiny number who both do notice and do care – and most of those people buy better TVs anyway (so either Sky won't be worried about them, or they'll hope they hook Sky Stream up).

As usual, it's worth reminding that Sky Glass is a mainstream product aimed at people who want convenience – this is what will have been prioritised over picture quality. It's not aimed at people who would be roaming a tech/Sky internet forum (and notice these things). It's aimed at everyday people, who don't notice "deeper blacks and richer colours". I showed my wife and she couldn't even see what I was pointing at. 

[Elbo28]

They wasted a huge part of their budget on the aluminium chassis, that money could have gone towards a better screen.I also take issue with how it was marketed. It was heavily implied that the quality would be Knocking on OLED's door, when we've got a screen that would be found in Philips entry level TV's. The soundbar is just loud, there's no nuance to the sound, in fact it sometimes can't handle what's being played through it, and it quietens down. It's not the high end Atmos system that was advertised. Anyway, that's my two penneth. I'd still advise anyone that's considering one to research properly to avoid disappointment 

[TimmyBGood]

@Elbo28 

Or just don't believe ridiculous advertising?

[Elbo28]

• Misleading advertising is against the law, but Comcast were probably very careful how the presented to product so they avoid any sort of lawsuit

[TimmyBGood]

@Elbo28 

It's that fine line between artistic licence and wilful inaccuracy.

I'm always reminded of a certain vehicle manufacturer that implied their cars transformed into awesome skating robots when only children were looking, which was apparently no problem for the ASA.

Personally I think the Sky campaign for Glass, and particularly that 'Sonic Boomio' advert, was stretching the boundaries of credibility: a simple contemplation of the size of the speaker drivers it's possible to fit inside the Glass enclosure should make that obvious.

Perhaps it's not surprising that the 'creatives' chose to use the metaphor of magic rather than dwell on the technology: maybe that creates the necessary plausible deniability...

[Fothergill1]

@Elbo28 I did the same as you 12 months ago and bought a Samsung TV & soundbar in the Samsung Black Friday offers..  It was a great decision which I have never regretted.  The picture quality is outstanding through a stream puck.

[Elbo28]

@Fothergill1 I have moved the Glass into the bedroom, so it only gets used to watch something like Family Guy to wind down before sleep. We also signed up for multicolor so we'd get a puck. Like I said in my post, it's Poles apart. I did forget to mention Gaming Mode. I have my PC connected to the TV, and it's great for it all to be back in sync. No input lag, voices match lip movements, and 144Hz mode and Gsync, so I can use Frame Generation on more demanding titles without having to worry about screen tearing. I love it