50% more live Sport for FREE... with Sky Sports+

[Padam_Padam]

I'm sure this'll be of interest to a lot of people:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13131189/sky-sports-launches-in-august-to-give-more-ch... 

When I say free, I mean at no extra cost on top of whatever you pay for Sky Sports already obvs....

[TimmyBGood]

Not sure it's ideal to be repurposing the '+' branding for this, though, just when it's ending in 'Sky+' and '+1'

[Padam_Padam]

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@TimmyBGood wrote:

Not sure it's ideal to be repurposing the '+' branding for this, though, just when it's ending in 'Sky+' and '+1'

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They must be feeling left out. Apple TV+, Disney+, Channel 4+, Discovery+, etc.... if in doubt, add a plus. 

[Dharvey86]

Just wondering if Ill get this if I have the Skysports Football and Premier League Channels only?

[Daniel0210]

@Dharvey86 

The link above does state… Once live, customers with a full Sky Sports subscription won't need to do a thing; Sky Sports+ will simply drop into the existing Sky experience, across Sky Glass, Sky Stream, Sky Q, and NOW.

[Super+Anthony]

Looks great. It looks like another streaming channel / app. After all this is the future. Streaming will at some stage replace TV

[Doc5907]

"while the dedicated Sky Sports+ linear channel will showcase a selection of the best live sport"

Hang on a minute, isn't that what Sky Sports Main Event is.. 🤔

[MarkGoldsmith]

This was always going to be launching around August for the start of the new EFL broadcasting rights Sky have.

Good to see they have announced it quite early though with several months notice, as it will save on people asking the question all summer about how to watch all the extra EFL games 😀.

Will be interesting to see how it ramps up in the longer term future with additional sports rights other than those listed

[Paulous197]

Will this be available on sky+HD boxes? 

[Daniel0210]

@Paulous197 

Please see post 5 above.

[TimmyBGood]

@Paulous197 

Sky+ isn't mentioned as a platform, and the intended interactive/on-demand features being heavily promoted aren't ideal for that legacy system: a significant percentage of remaining HD boxes have never been connected to the internet.

[Doc5907]

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@Padam_Padam wrote:

I'm sure this'll be of interest to a lot of people:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13131189/sky-sports-launches-in-august-to-give-more-ch... 

When I say free, I mean at no extra cost on top of whatever you pay for Sky Sports already obvs....

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'while the dedicated Sky Sports+ linear channel will showcase a selection of the best live sport.'

Hang on a minute, isn't that what Sky Sports Main Event is.. 🤔

[Padam_Padam]

Worth noting that there's no mention at all about resolution in this press release, so it's possible that it'll be limited to HD on the live streams via the Sports+ app, so it's easier for all platforms to access it, and the live channel only might get UHD if available. Just speculation. I'm sure they'd be shouting about UHD if they planned to carry it, but so far they're not. 

[MarkGoldsmith]

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@Doc5907 wrote:

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@Padam_Padam wrote:

I'm sure this'll be of interest to a lot of people:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13131189/sky-sports-launches-in-august-to-give-more-ch... 

When I say free, I mean at no extra cost on top of whatever you pay for Sky Sports already obvs....

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'while the dedicated Sky Sports+ linear channel will showcase a selection of the best live sport.'

Hang on a minute, isn't that what Sky Sports Main Event is.. 🤔

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Well Main Event is designed as a showcase for the existing Sky sports linear channels, so i'm guessing the linear + channel will be a showcase stream from the Sky Sport + platform.

[oj01]

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@Paulous197 wrote:

Will this be available on sky+HD boxes? 

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The linear broadcast channel should be. The extra bits showing the dozens of other games via broadband, probably not. In much the same way that you can't view the extra feeds on Sky Sports Tennis.