FabGuys.com forum: Sky Glass

By *angerEd OP Man
5 weeks ago

Bexleyheath

What are people's experiences good or bad with Sky Glass?, I am being offered £118pm 2 year contract which is about £25 less than I will be paying later if I let my contract run out.

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By *awihMan
5 weeks ago

Aldershot

"What are people's experiences good or bad with Sky Glass?, I am being offered £118pm 2 year contract which is about £25 less than I will be paying later if I let my contract run out."

Not got it myself - I use sky stream and my TV is connected to a satellite dish for freesat as we can’t get freeview where I live.

This means I am free to choose what make of TV I want and am not tied to sky for the TV itself. Just because you don’t aware that some channels are not available on Glass and Stream (talking pictures TV being one example but I can get that through Freesat).

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By *orny7419Man
5 weeks ago

Gloucester

I use a loaded fire stick. £70 per Year. Can use it any tv. Anywhere as long as have internet connection.

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By *tokerY2OMan
5 weeks ago

Bournemouth

If you have a good tv dont worry about the Sky Glass option.

Just go for Sky Stream, it'd the same but connects to your normal TV.

Everything Sky offers but through streaming, and everything is watchable at anytime . No more 'recording'

Best thing I've done, cheaper too.

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By *enardeMan
5 weeks ago

Barnsley

"What are people's experiences good or bad with Sky Glass?, I am being offered £118pm 2 year contract which is about £25 less than I will be paying later if I let my contract run out."

I got told you can’t record on it

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By *owzerMan
5 weeks ago

Chester.....

"What are people's experiences good or bad with Sky Glass?, I am being offered £118pm 2 year contract which is about £25 less than I will be paying later if I let my contract run out.

I got told you can’t record on it "

It's a streaming service. 25% of your time will be spent watching ads

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By *i_guy_WBayMan
5 weeks ago

Whitley Bay

As long as you have reasonable broadband then either the Sky Glass or Sky Stream options are good and mean no more need for a dish. Personally I prefer the Stream because it means I can pick the TV and soundbar I want to use rather than being restricted to Sky’s one. We wanted an 85” screen which isn’t an option with sky glass and with the size of our lounge the integrated soundbar in the glass would have been lacking. If you want an all in one solution and are happy with the sizes offered by Sky then go for the glass, it is a reasonably decent piece of kit.

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By *tokerY2OMan
5 weeks ago

Bournemouth

"What are people's experiences good or bad with Sky Glass?, I am being offered £118pm 2 year contract which is about £25 less than I will be paying later if I let my contract run out.

I got told you can’t record on it

It's a streaming service. 25% of your time will be spent watching ads "

No you're watching live TV like normal but you can pause rewind etc

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By *i_guy_WBayMan
5 weeks ago

Whitley Bay

"I got told you can’t record on it "

Not as such no, you add programs to your playlist and then you can watch them later, as it is all streamed there is no recording really.

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By *tokerY2OMan
5 weeks ago

Bournemouth

"I got told you can’t record on it

Not as such no, you add programs to your playlist and then you can watch them later, as it is all streamed there is no recording really."

Yeah you don't need to record- everything is available to stream

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By *u2usemeMan
5 weeks ago

hyde

Can't believe people are paying this much for tv channels

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By *tokerY2OMan
5 weeks ago

Bournemouth

I'm so used to it when friends/colleague say theyve recorded something it doesn't made sense to me.

With Stream no recording is needed, you just watch anything anytime.

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By *awihMan
5 weeks ago

Aldershot

"What are people's experiences good or bad with Sky Glass?, I am being offered £118pm 2 year contract which is about £25 less than I will be paying later if I let my contract run out.

I got told you can’t record on it "

Correct - there is no storage in the puck, you can add series to a playlist and when the episode has been on you can replay it when you like (so long as you don’t have a broadband outage).

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By *tephen_b50Man
5 weeks ago

Bristol

"What are people's experiences good or bad with Sky Glass?, I am being offered £118pm 2 year contract which is about £25 less than I will be paying later if I let my contract run out.

I got told you can’t record on it

It's a streaming service. 25% of your time will be spent watching ads "

This is what i don't get about streaming. On anything but iPlayer, the ads interrupt and you can't fast forward - only thing you can do is turn off the sound. As entertainment, i think it's absolute shite.

i'd far rather receive through my aerial into my PVR, use a time delay or record the program, and fast forward through the ads.

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By *tar33Man
5 weeks ago

North London (outer)

I sacked Sky off nearly a year ago and don't miss it at all. I now have a Freesat recorder on one floor and a Freeview recorder in my basement.

I also have an Amazon Fire box on each floor, basically a Firestick but 4k and storage capacity. On each of those I have IPTV and Stremio so can watch whatever I like from around the world. Yearly cost is less than half of my previous monthly cost with Sky.

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By *i_guy_WBayMan
5 weeks ago

Whitley Bay

"What are people's experiences good or bad with Sky Glass?, I am being offered £118pm 2 year contract which is about £25 less than I will be paying later if I let my contract run out.

I got told you can’t record on it

It's a streaming service. 25% of your time will be spent watching ads

i'd far rather receive through my aerial into my PVR, use a time delay or record the program, and fast forward through the ads."

I have the option on sky stream to skip ads on anything that isn’t live

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By *angerEd OP Man
5 weeks ago

Bexleyheath

Thank you for all the responses I'm going to read them through now

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By *awihMan
5 weeks ago

Aldershot

I have the option on sky stream to skip ads on anything that isn’t live"

Yes but you have to pay them extra for that.

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By *awihMan
5 weeks ago

Aldershot

"This is what i don't get about streaming. On anything but iPlayer, the ads interrupt and you can't fast forward - only thing you can do is turn off the sound. As entertainment, i think it's absolute shite."

Quite simply the difference is that is live streaming. BBC iPlayer, ITV X etc. are catchup streaming services.

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By *ardwoodXXXMan
5 weeks ago

Hexham

Generally I avoid any sort of contract where the service comes with hardware unless it is exceptional. All the sky hardware q boxes etc are poor quality and prone to failure, need frequent reboot etc.

My choice would be a decent fibre broadband supplier ( not sky) a good mesh router system ( put the one from your broadband supplier in the bin and buy tp-link or similar) a decent 4K tv (preferably Samsung that can receive Apple TV etc) and a sky q box as there’s no other sensible way to get the football. though with all the streaming channels there’s less and less need for sky for the other stuff these days

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By *3243Man
5 weeks ago

EDINBURGH

I've had it since more or less it came out. Happy enough with it until I got an offer from Virgin I couldn't knock back. So I'm now with them and have their box fed into an HDMI port. It works very successfully.

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By *onkfish10Man
5 weeks ago

Telford

Sky is a total rip off not used it for over 10 years I stream all my TV

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