Thoughts on the Sky Go app.

[thereaduckofdeath]

Isn't it time for Sky to stop using the annoying, low quality Sky Go player? Please adopt a web player like all other streaming services. Get better quality and save us from that horrible and laggy Cisco streaming container you're using now. \o/

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[Anonymous]

It would definitely be nice to have a web UI in the same way Now does, and you're right it does seem quite old fashioned to have a desktop app for streaming these days.

Perhaps they're working on something, but as far as I'm aware there's no public roadmap to know.

Theoretically it would be cleanest if they provided access to Now linked to your Sky account, but the channel list is quite different so I understand why they've not done that.

[mmm57]

I would agree!

Plus it's not working in a usable manner on my 24h2 Win 11 ARM laptop but working fully on my Win11 24h2 Intel laptop. If you read back over the various discussions other people have had similar issues and possible cures but nothing consistent.

In fact some people seem to have it working on ARM but some have similar issues on Win11 24h2 on Intel, some believe they have solved it by installing a previous version of windows 11, installing SkyGo then updating windows!

This has been a recurring theme for several months in various forms.

This would indicate that maintainance of SkyGo is of a low priority and has perhaps become too complex for all the permutations of windows.

As the discussion starter has suggested, surely this issue could be resolved by going to a browser based version. If security is an issue how do other streaming services control this?

[Anonymous]

I imagine that when Sky Go launched having the app was the best approach but at this point rewriting it for the web is probably a major project and they have other priorities at the moment. 

[mmm57]

They have an advertised service that doesn't work for many people and it's not a priority!

I will not be adding to this thread.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

I'm not saying it's NOT a priority, only Sky can answer that, I'm just hypothesising. 

[thereaduckofdeath]

The app is created by Cisco. They bought the license because it offers slightly overly intrusive abilities to detect what other apps you're running, in what I can only guess is a useless attempt to curb piracy. Because dodgy box providers are known to sell sub 720p, 25 fps pirate streaming services. Right? The only thing they achieve is to deliver a terrible service to us who are paying for it. Remember, Sky subscribtions are probaby the most expensive media subscritptions in the world, and the company delivers the abolute worst pre-2010 quality services.

Swtiching from Cisco's horrible application isn't a compilacted task. When Netflix failed with their first global live stream of a mojor event about half a year ago, they immediatly sat down and figured out a working solution. A few months later they offered flawless streaming of the most views regular season NFL matches ever. It is only hard if you don't want to fix it.