TV input App has appeared

[Jason+Golding]

A new TV input app has appeared on my sky stream box. Has it appeared on anyone else's. When pressed it provides an opportunity to search for terrestrial tv channels via the stream box 

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@Jason+Golding  Yup 🙂

[Jason+Golding]

I can now watch all freeview channels via the stream box 🙂

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@Jason+Golding  Just tuning mine in, wonder how long it will last 🙂

[Jason+Golding]

@GD1 @Not sure ! All the terrestrial tuner software is in English ? You think it's an error ?

[Jason+Golding]

It only picks up the digital channels, doesn't seem to work on any of the data/streaming channels within freeview 

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@Jason+Golding  Hard to say as the facility is availble in Italy for certain, hopefully it's a permanent feature, time will tell.

Although it does seem strange.

[Jason+Golding]

I suspect it is meant to be, based on the tuner is in English. I guess it provides a good back up for customers suffering from any WiFi issues. Secondly adds channels unavailable on stream such as TPTV, that's tv, rewind tv etc ???

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@Jason+Golding  Annoyingly though it puts the main SD channels 1st and HD from 101 onwards

[Jason+Golding]

 

[Ellie_TV]

Mine did this last week. I had to factory reset the puck on Sky's advice. When it restarted it was on QS034 & allowed me to tune in the free to air channels under the same aerial input icon. It lasted a few days then disappeared again. 
Weird. These pucks are too darned glitchy. I'm growing less & less fond of mine. 

[Jporch316]

It's also appeared on my glass tv !

[Fothergill1]

I have seen the app but don't really see why I would want to use it on a Stream Puck.  If I cancel Sky I have to return the puck so it won't be of any use (unlike Glass) and if my broadband goes down (which it did for a few hours on one occasion last year) then I would simply revert to watching from my TV.  Am I missing something?

A great feature for Glass owners though.

[MarkGoldsmith]

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@Fothergill1 wrote:

I have seen the app but don't really see why I would want to use it on a Stream Puck.  If I cancel Sky I have to return the puck so it won't be of any use (unlike Glass) and if my broadband goes down (which it did for a few hours on one occasion last year) then I would simply revert to watching from my TV.  Am I missing something?

A great feature for Glass owners though.

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I agree. I completely see the value of it on Sky Glass but can't really understand the usefulness of it on the puck. 

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@Jason+Golding wrote:

It only picks up the digital channels, doesn't seem to work on any of the data/streaming channels within freeview 

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A device needs to support Freeview to access those😉