@AlexB12345 wrote:
We got a Sky Glass gen 1 as soon as it came out some years ago and unfortunately we promptly sent it back... due to busy lives we watch a lot of recorded stuff. We noticed that watching recorded programmes on the gen1 the picture quality was poor even though it was perfect on the live system. Sky admitted that it was a problem and agreed to the tv being returned.
Does the gen2 have the same issue or has it been resolved.?
It depends on what you watch and how it is made available on demand.
Content you add to a playlist from a BBC channel will play back from the iPlayer app for example. The BBC are usually pretty good at not compressing their content too much but it can often be the case that the on demand version is still more heavily compressed than the live channel stream. The other downside of iPlayer is that it won't play anything back with 5.1 audio. Many high end BBC drama series and any movies shown by the BBC will often have a 5.1 surround mix but you won't get this if you watch via iPlayer. Only the live channel stream will carry the better audio.
Channel 4 content is often quite variable on demand when watched via their app. ITVX I personally find isn't too bad on my OLED TV.
Sky's own content is usually good and pretty much identical to any live broadcast stream. In fact, most of their non-sport content is better viewed on demand as you'll sometimes get it in UHD with HDR. The live UHD HDR channel streams are only used for sports content.
So to answer your question, yes the gen2 Glass does have the same issue, but only really for non-Sky sourced content.
