Just been talking to an Openreach Engineer he said land lines will be another ten years before they are removed.He was telling me about SKY Stream(not SKY Glass) which means doing away with the Dish.
So the signal comes from the Modem.Apparently its not available everyware.He said its cheaper because sky do not have to pay BT for the Land Line.Is anyone using it,and is the reception ok.
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https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/sky/1417180/sky-stream-review
Streaming services are carving up tv programmes and football/ other sports and sky has very little unique stuff to offer.
Right now, in all honesty if you have a good connection over 30/35 meg you can do pretty much what you want on multiple devices in UHD. That speed is only going to increase and when you get full fibre service, assuming the less competent players in the game up their game and stop fucking the network up you will get a gigabyte downstream and there is nothing we currently have in our homes that needs anything like that speed but it will completely remove the need for satellite dishes and Sky along with everyone else will deliver their content and live stuff via streaming as it makes most sense and won't drop out when it snows or rains hard
As good an idea as that is, making content the important factor and not the provider, the price of Sky is so ridiculously high that I can't see them making it cheap enough to warrant sticking with it. Unless they package up all the apps cheaply enough that it's better to do that than get them all individually.
We've got a new Samsung TV and it's doing my nut in. Navigating around it, when really I just want to watch through the XBox, is a chore. Managing apps and figuring out which show is on which app is a bit shit so maybe Sky can resolve that. Hope not though, I hope they go bust!
I just looked at how much it would cost to get Stream with BT and Sky Sports plus the ability to FWD adverts - £84 per month. Fuck that. I'll just stick with my mate's Sky go log in.
They do have their own broadcast which they sell all in overseas territories, some taking just the pictures, some taking the whole package including the EPL pre-match, half-time and post-match content, plus official EPL highlight programmes and more.
I wasn't having a dig, I have sky go on my ipad and use my daughters log in details, but the main TV is IPTV
From what I can tell, Sky go is still running on the same tech as it did in 2010, a thing called the Programme Database that was never really designed to do what it does now. It's not even smart enough to list titles beginning with 'The' under the second word, and can't list episode titles in release date order. Or any fucking fathomable order come to think of it. If you go to Sky Cinema and look at the categories, half of them are empty. Which was especially unfortunate when they had a "best of Sky Cinema 2022" section lol.
I have a iptv subscription basically just for the Saturday away games and few others. The picture quality and sound isn’t as good as the services I actually pay for.
I have it in the living room with 2 extra pucks in the bedroom and spare room. Only thing to know is the main device can do UHD but the pucks only have HD capability
Once my stash of old NotTV combined boxes all break then unless a decent Freeview app with live pause becomes available for my TV then I'll either lose live pause/rewind functionality or have to pay a lot more for another service/device to match what I have in one cheap/convenient package.
With the stream we've noticed the lip sync has occasionally been out (someone else mentioned it too) but only very occasionally so not an issue really. So far we've never had an internet outage.
The picture and sound quality is very good and the set-up is a doddle to do...... I'm not very techie but did it easily and quickly.
As with all things Sky and BT (had BT before the house move) it's not a bargain, ours currently at £71 per month...... that's full fibre broadband, Sky TV and Sky Sports. £60-odd when we started but had their price rise put on March time I think.