Streaming

[AndrewSmith20.07]

• Why have the UK's top TV service turned to streaming? First we have a new resolution out which takes the most signal yet, then they choose streaming which is the complete opposite. 4K via Sky isn't even proper 4K. Even SD (like DVDs) sreaming does nothing but judder. Anybody who pays for this is mad! You can't even lossless audio formats unlike having them on a 4K Blu-ray. It's aĺl just Dolby Digital Plus which is heavily  compressed like the rest of streaming. I'm sure you,'ve heard of DTS-HD, DolbyTrueHD and Dolby Atmos. None of those high quality lossless formats are available via streaming. Compare a Sky Stream with a 4K playback of a 4K Blu-ray. 10 - 30 Mbps tops vs. 100 - 150 tops on a 4K bluray.

[TimmyBGood]

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@AndrewSmith20.07 wrote:

• Why have the UK's top TV service turned to streaming? 

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Because there aren't likely to be any broadcast satellites for use in UK &  RoI past the turn of the decade, and (probably) because Comcast is historically a cable television company.

Sky doesn't need to provide the best possible service (which most users don't really care about or have good enough equipment to appreciate), just one which keeps enough subscribers to turn a profit.