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Is this announcement the beginning of the end of the Sky satellite service with a slow decline over the next few years?


It looks a hellish expensive way of getting your pay tv fix.....
 

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Youtube TV works well stateside with features such as pause/rewind live tv, record, series link I can imagine it being like that although I'm a bit confused as to why they haven't done this with their Now (tv) service.
 

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There's no way anyone I know would ditch a perfectly good and often (judging by the demonstration videos) superior television just so they could stream Sky. It's a big old box of a TV too.

The carbon neutral claim is a bit far fetched. I'm sure an existing Q box could offer the same service without extra electronics having to be manufactured or shipped. Those server farms, along with the rest of the distribution system, don't run on fresh air either..

No doubt they'll offer 'Glass Exclusives' to encourage transition to IPTV but with my weedy broadband connection it won't be any time soon for me.
 

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Do the screens have a satellite input, or does it become a doorstop when t'internet goes off ?
 

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Do the screens have a satellite input, or does it become a doorstop when t'internet goes off ?
No satellite, only DVB-T2:
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Perhaps the suggested hammer would be useful in such times:
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I will stick with satellite TV.
 

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Is the drill and drill bit required to give yourself a trepanation for buying such crap ?
 

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Looking in a bit more depth, the seeling point appears to be no cables - with the exception of a mains socket - unless one needs to connect to terrestrial as a back up.

In that respect it might appeal to the fastidious with money to burn.

Sky may also bundle other inhouse stuff to compete with Netflix/Amazon.
 

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Do the screens have a satellite input, or does it become a doorstop when t'internet goes off ?
Exactly. My Sky Fibre connection likes to go down in the evenings at times, ironically it's usually due to Sky doing maintenance on the lines and can be off all night. I can't think of anything more frustrating than being left with no television to watch when this happens - usually the one thing that can keep us busy until it comes back.

Wonder the impact this is going to have on the Sky Broadband infrastructure as well? I imagine for those taking it, they'll see their broadband usage go up way into the terabytes per month. Surely, if a whole street was to have Sky Glass, that's going to cause some congestion at some point?
 

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Sky Glass TV small is a 43-inch set that costs £649 that is more than twice as much that I paid for my 43-inch Sony UHD,

Are Sky in the real world ?

We are going through a big ression that some of us will be lucky to survive with utility bills going through the roof,

So Sky Glass must be for the super rich 5% of the population :eek:
 

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QWith a current bb speed of 7.5 meg (which trips out around 1850 every single evening when a motor on the boiler in the next building along the row kicks in) I wont be changing over from the satellite service.
 

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Well the now infamous Facebook outage owing to server misconfiguration proved that satellite TV is going nowhere anytime soon.

Everyone in the house left holding an expensive piece of plastic in their hands for the evening begging to watch good old fashioned satellite TV. Now that was a sight to behold.

IPTV can certainly compliment satellite TV but it will never replace it. The providers can bundle up TV in whatever clever packaging they like but IPTV depends too much on too many other external factors to be the dominant means of TV distribution.
 

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True,but here in France a vast majority of people went from Yagi antenna straight into "boxes" ,internet-provided TV receivers.
There are 5 or 6 providers ,all in permanent competition ,selling this...along with "premium" ,sky-like channels of course.
You get basic service plus mobile plus landline(rather,continuation of landline) for around 55 euros(45£ at brexit prices)
Trouble is,95% of French people NEVER used satellite,the Yagi gives 27 channels,FTA,most people happy with these.
Dishes are thought to be for immigrants (watching arab speaking channels mostly)
and out-in-the-sticks dwellers ,too far from transmitters AND too weak dsl connection for tv.
People think you only get Canal plus(=sky) over a dish.... ignorantus!and shops encourange this ignorance
So,UK may be on the way to these "boxes" too...
 

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True,but here in France a vast majority of people went from Yagi antenna straight into "boxes" ,internet-provided TV receivers.
There are 5 or 6 providers ,all in permanent competition ,selling this...along with "premium" ,sky-like channels of course.
You get basic service plus mobile plus landline(rather,continuation of landline) for around 55 euros(45£ at brexit prices)
Trouble is,95% of French people NEVER used satellite,the Yagi gives 27 channels,FTA,most people happy with these.
Dishes are thought to be for immigrants (watching arab speaking channels mostly)
and out-in-the-sticks dwellers ,too far from transmitters AND too weak dsl connection for tv.
People think you only get Canal plus(=sky) over a dish.... ignorantus!and shops encourange this ignorance
So,UK may be on the way to these "boxes" too...
Thankfully I don’t live in France so

Brought back memories of Thatchers Britain in the latter half of the 80’s though with the introduction of BSB off the Marco Polo satellite and the Squarial. While the south of the country was booming the north were perishing. For some reason the squarial appealed greatly to council house tenants so every council house appeared to have one installed.

The running joke at the time was, what do you call that box attached to the rear of a squarial. Answer. A council house.

We’ve moved on a long way since that kind of thinking. I can receive 28 channels of DVB-T with a coat hanger stuck in the back of the TV. Now that’s progress for ya
 

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same as us then,28 fta terrestrial
but in bigger cities,they took away the yagi aerials ,
so people MUST subscribe to one of the providers..
and most buildings with communal services BAN people from using sat dishes... strange world
Back in thatcher (mitterrand/chirac for us)years,Canal plus had huge ad campaings "la parabole est gratuite" that appealed to kids...
And,then,immigrants put out dishes,so the dish became an "anti-well'to-do" symbol among the upwardly mobile rat-racers!
When I got my 1st sat dish,,colleagues & neighbours believed I wanted to watch Algeria!
 

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Brought back memories of Thatchers Britain in the latter half of the 80’s though with the introduction of BSB off the Marco Polo satellite and the Squarial. While the south of the country was booming the north were perishing. For some reason the squarial appealed greatly to council house tenants so every council house appeared to have one installed.

The running joke at the time was, what do you call that box attached to the rear of a squarial. Answer. A council house.
The vast majority of dwellings would have the 60/80cm white offset dish installed, branded Alba or Amstrad, up to a year before the option of BSB squarials even got off the ground. There was a claim of some 750k installed, but nobody believes it.
 

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The vast majority of dwellings would have the 60/80cm white offset dish installed, branded Alba or Amstrad, up to a year before the option of BSB squarials even got off the ground. There was a claim of some 750k installed, but nobody believes it.
Ah....Alan M Sugar TRADing. Microchips for the masses. Very little chance of getting an electric shock from his outer casings. All plastic. The king of plastic mouldings. Whatever you did you didn’t risk opening it up to look inside. One turn of a screw was the last one

Do you remember Super Station Europe.
 

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Found this review, recording and playback doesn't look much fun. Having to pay for Disney+ to watch anything recorded from National Geographic is crap. I guess the same applies for Discovery channels and Discovery+.

The demo starts about 3 minutes in.

 

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Found this review, recording and playback doesn't look much fun. Having to pay for Disney+ to watch anything recorded from National Geographic is crap. I guess the same applies for Discovery channels and Discovery+.

The demo starts about 3 minutes in.


"Its a jazzed up Now TV" yes that's exactly what it is. What a pile of manure
 

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Is the rumour true that they named it glass because it breaks easily?:rolleyes:
 
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