Restore slo mo on SkyQ

[Cna]

Slow motion playback should be restored on SkyQ 

it was on Sky +

I am sure it would be feasible 

[TimmyBGood]

@Cna 

Slow-motion has never been a feature available on Q, so it wouldn't be a 'restoration'.

Given that the Q platform is now a mature eight years old, it's very unlikely to gain new features.

[PandJ2020]

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@Cna wrote:

Slow motion playback should be restored on SkyQ 

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Rapidly hitting the pause button emulates it - it's the best we are likely to get...

[Cna]

@TimmyBGood Restoration refers to SkyQ  from those which were available on Sky+

Upgrades and improvements should be a regular process unless Sky is too lazy or too mean neither of which is the case

It would be a good project for a young software engineer

[Daniel0210]

@Cna 

That's not going to happen now as per the post by @TimmyBGood Comcast, the owners of Sky, are concentrating on Glass and Stream and there will be little difference (if any) seen to the way Sky Q is currently presented.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Cna wrote:

It would be a good project for a young software engineer

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Because it's always a good idea to let a 'young software engineer' mess with several million devices that are in daily use?

Also worth noting that Q is fundamentally different to Sky+ in its use of diskless devices for Multiscreen.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Cna wrote:

Upgrades and improvements should be a regular process 

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And they were for about six years.  As @Daniel0210 indicates, Q was the last product produced by Sky based on its heritage as a satellite television company: that's no longer the case with ownership in the hands of a US cable corporation.

[Cna]

So have Sky/Comcast abandoned the millions of SkyQ customers.  
no improvements 

no upgrades

no new ideas

Move to Sky Glass

????

[TimmyBGood]

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@Cna wrote:

So have Sky/Comcast abandoned the millions of SkyQ customers.  

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Not really, because it's still a very viable platform for the majority of satellite television users.

It's just probably not going to change very much from how it is now.

[simon194]

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@TimmyBGood wrote:

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@Cna wrote:

So have Sky/Comcast abandoned the millions of SkyQ customers.  

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Not really, because it's still a very viable platform for the majority of satellite television users.

It's just probably not going to change very much from how it is now.

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Even more so with the possibility that Sky via satellite has another 5 years left.

[Chodley]

Platforms with millions of consumer users of varying levels of technical ability are not really cobbled together from side projects given to the intern.

Except the wifi stack obviously.

[Cna]

Replies are so negative to this idea

[Daniel0210]

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@Cna wrote:

Replies are so negative to this idea

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@Cna 

Because the idea has been made many times over the years for such Sky+ features as bookmarks and the feature that starts with the letter r, ends in the letter s, and has eminder in the middle that is sometimes considered swearing on here because it's suggested so so often it gets boring. 

[Cna]

The word condescending also springs to mind

condescending to customers 

condescending to young software engineers

condescending to how sky treats customers 

thoughtful reasoning is entirely missing

[Chodley]

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@Cna wrote:

condescending to young software engineers

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I've worked for some of the biggest software companies in the world for 3 decades. A single software engineer of any age will make mistakes. Adding a feature always takes more effort than you think.