23 Oct 2024 10:01 PM
Please can I get some advice.
i have Sky Q and have been offered a reasonably priced Sky glass TV.
i can't switch to Sky Glass as I live rural and internet connection is poor, so still need a satellite dish.
is it worth me buying the Sky glass TV for quality? Or is ordinary LED TV best?
thanks
23 Oct 2024 10:17 PM - last edited: 23 Oct 2024 10:20 PM
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@TEdmon wrote:
Please can I get some advice.
i have Sky Q and have been offered a reasonably priced Sky glass TV.
i can't switch to Sky Glass as I live rural and internet connection is poor, so still need a satellite dish.
is it worth me buying the Sky glass TV for quality? Or is ordinary LED TV best?
thanks
hi @TEdmon
SKy Glass is quite niche & I think almost everyone would do better by looking at other TVs
SKY Glass is not like other smart TVs and really is only of benefit for those who want the SKY functionality - for example, I believe, the Freeview Terrestrial tuner is only accessible when broadband is switched off
Also, SKY Glass TVs themselves are , in TV terms, quite old now and even when they first came out, their only real advantage was the SKY functionality which was not available at that time in stand alone stream / pucks
Since SKY Stream was introduced I think most here would generally advise people to get stream and look elsewhere for a TV rather than get Glass if they want to switch to SKY streaming - which is not what you wish at this point anyway.
Thus as you can gather I would not recommend a SKY Glass TV for yourself
23 Oct 2024 10:18 PM
Sky Glass TV's are neither latest technology or new products. If you have a poor internet connection there is NO point in buying a Glass TV, and imho very little point if you have great internet connection speeds.
24 Oct 2024 09:15 AM - last edited: 24 Oct 2024 09:23 AM
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@TEdmon wrote:
have been offered a reasonably priced Sky glass TV.
is it worth me buying the Sky glass TV for quality? Or is ordinary LED TV best?
The Glass television is now over three years old (so realistically contains four year old pandemic-era technology) and wasn't glowingly reviewed at the time. Any mid-price television released since then is likely to be 'better' (and OLED/Mini-LED certainly so) unless you really value the design aesthetic or the built-in audio.
24 Oct 2024 09:41 AM
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BTW One further key point
SKY systems are not geared up to selling SKY Glass a separate TV without the SKY Glass associated subscription and thus taking out an offer from SKy would likely cause your SKY Q subscription to be transferred causing disruption / problems.
Some customers have switched to SKY Glass and then managed to switch back after trialing it - but this not quite the same as buying SKY Glass as a Stand alone TV without the associated SKY Glass TV subsription, which, as I say, SKY is not really set up for.
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