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Sky Glass
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21-09-2021, 04:24 PM
I can't decide whether they'd market it as a "compensation" service for those who want a dish but can't get it, or a premium option for those who don't like having dishes stuck to their house. Both would have very different pricing, hypothetically. They'd also need to consider the liability of having your TV go off when your internet goes awry as well as your wi-fi. I can't see people would want to pay a premium to be exposed to that vulnerability.
21-09-2021, 04:29 PM
With NOW targeting viewers with a limited selection of the popular linear pay tv channels and VOD content on a PAYG basis, I'd think whatever the new Sky IPTV service will be called will be targeted at those who want Sky but don't have landlord permission or have a tree stuck in the line of sight of 28E.
For Sky, it's another way of increasing revenue without having to provide an engineer for a dish install and should be plug and play for the customer, but they still get a similar experience to Sky Q.
21-09-2021, 06:03 PM
orange post_id=41165 time= user_id=1389 Wrote:If it is a dish-less service i wonder if it’ll be any cheaper - I genuinely wonder how things are going with them sales wise? My parents have had Sky for something like 25 or so years and they’ve just cancelled it in favour of streaming things on Netflix and Prime etc. and I don’t know many people with it at all now - I really do wonder how things are going with them and if there’s a expiry date for them soon. There won't be an "expiry date" as such, that will only come when SES decides it not worth their sending up Astra satellite 2GS to replace Astra 2EZ, though of course the whole satellite TV thing depends on those satellites so if SES decide not to send up any more and what's there eventually runs out of fuel to maintain their position in geostationary orbit, the entire operation will be dead within 10 years. Of course satellite infrastructure isn't cheap, I dare say Sky have to pay SES for use of the satellites and the whole uplinking thing, so you can see why its incredibly more attractive to squirt it all down an internet connection rather than firing it into the sky.
21-09-2021, 06:59 PM
Larry the Loafer post_id=41169 time= user_id=990 Wrote:I can't decide whether they'd market it as a "compensation" service for those who want a dish but can't get it, or a premium option for those who don't like having dishes stuck to their house. Both would have very different pricing, hypothetically. They'd also need to consider the liability of having your TV go off when your internet goes awry as well as your wi-fi. I can't see people would want to pay a premium to be exposed to that vulnerability. In Austria at least, Sky X completely replaced Now TV (or Sky Ticket as it was known there) and was aimed at the same segment of the market and priced accordingly. In Germany it seems to be a bit different and what they seem to be doing there is marketing Sky Q IP towards households that can’t get satellite. In that market, it costs the same as satellite, comes with the same contract but has less features (no PVR/live pause etc). I’m not sure why you’d plump for the IP version over the satellite version if you can get both, I know in the early days of Sky some people had a thing about being seen with a dish on their house but that’s hardly still a thing in this day and age.
21-09-2021, 08:58 PM
Rdd post_id=41192 time= user_id=1409 Wrote:Larry the Loafer post_id=41169 time= user_id=990 Wrote:I can't decide whether they'd market it as a "compensation" service for those who want a dish but can't get it, or a premium option for those who don't like having dishes stuck to their house. Both would have very different pricing, hypothetically. They'd also need to consider the liability of having your TV go off when your internet goes awry as well as your wi-fi. I can't see people would want to pay a premium to be exposed to that vulnerability. There was such a thing as avoiding dish blight on (primarily) residential blocks, the idea being you take all the individual dishes down and just have one communal one stuck in the appropriate corner to feed all the properties on that block. Think I mentioned before I can drive past at least two blocks that have a neat collection of about eight dishes on on the one wall with a communal aerial on the building as well, which may be a sign of how successful that policy was.
21-09-2021, 09:52 PM
I do think there’s a decent market for Sky w/o dish.
It’s not just about putting a dish on your house, there’s the wiring… getting the cables close to the TV where you want your box. Drilling holes through walls. A lot of people don’t like it. Against that you have a small box that needs a power lead and an HDMI lead into your TV. The rest of the magic happens through your wifi. What’s not to like about that.
21-09-2021, 10:31 PM
The lack of a PVR would be a real dealbreaker for me, the ability to pause live tv is still a killer app in my view. I know some people don’t think it’s a necessity in the streaming age but for live sports in particular it still has its uses.
22-09-2021, 04:29 PM
It could be a tv with built in sky caperbilties like cloud recording and apps and all channels included too
22-09-2021, 11:35 PM
digiperson post_id=41477 time= user_id=933 Wrote:https://amp.mediamole.co.uk/entertainmen...64892.html If it's a rebadged XiOne, it should be similar to the current SkyQ experience with EPG numbers etc as the remote has number buttons.
23-09-2021, 05:00 PM
If it’s a rebranded XiOne box then won’t it have cloud recording? I’m sure I read online that the xione box has it.
23-09-2021, 05:20 PM
Tv12345 post_id=41615 time= user_id=907 Wrote:If it’s a rebranded XiOne box then won’t it have cloud recording? I’m sure I read online that the xione box has it. It has been rumoured that cloud recording will be offered to UK customers, yes. Up to 1,000 hours.
24-09-2021, 08:10 AM
The elephant in the room here is what requirement, if any, will there be to use Sky Broadband.
24-09-2021, 09:22 AM
That would be a be a pity if it were to be the case. Sky is now the only “broadband-independent” full-feature pay TV service (I discount Now, which doesn’t offer terrestrial tv channels) in the ROI market, since Virgin Media introduced a requirement (which never existed before) to use VM broadband if you are taking its new TV 360 box. Triple pay used to be an option now it appears to becoming a compulsion. I myself take Sky TV and VM broadband - it may be an expensive combination but it is the best one.
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