Sky TV
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@nepia Sky is ridiculous. The house I bought came with a satellite dish, I bought a box from Amazon for £15 which gets 480 channels (of which 180 HD) for free, almost everything you'd ever want to watch. Also have Netflix (£8 /month) and Amazon Video (£70/year). I've heard one can free stream most of the sport one wants to watch online at various places. Fast-ish (25 Mbps) broadband is £35 /month with BT (unlimited data), and I live in pretty remote rural England (Hertfordshire). Don't have a landline.
Not paying for Sky saves enough cash for a flight back to NZ each year.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12052740
Looks like I will need to use an extra provider to watch EPL next season
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If it's app based they probably can lock down quite a few features. But it won't be long till a hack emerges!
At the moment it feels like all they are doing is giving us the tip. Here is a reasonably priced monthly sub to sports... but only on your phone!! Here's another sub option, but only if you sell your soul to Spark!!
Guess the underlying fact is they are between a rock and a hard place. If they give folks the flexible subs to specific content for a 'reasonable' price it'll screw their other sub models.
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@paekakboyz said in Sky TV:
Guess the underlying fact is they are between a rock and a hard place. If they give folks the flexible subs to specific content for a 'reasonable' price it'll screw their other sub models.
A reasonable price probably doesn't cover the rights costs for top sport - that shit is really expensive.
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@stargazer said in Sky TV:
How long until someone comes up with an 'app' to allow streaming to Chromecast...
Fucks me off that you can't cast the Sky Go app.
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@no-quarter said in Sky TV:
@stargazer said in Sky TV:
How long until someone comes up with an 'app' to allow streaming to Chromecast...
Fucks me off that you can't cast the Sky Go app.
What does that mean? As in project it onto a screen or through a tv?
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@No-Quarter scratch that! Chromecast!
(I still don't know what that is to be fair)
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@No-Quarter scratch that! Chromecast!
(I still don't know what that is to be fair)
Haha, yeah. It's just a little device connected to your WiFi/network that you plug into the back of your TV. Then, if the app allows it you can "cast" to the TV, playing it on the TV instead of the device.
Netflix etc has it, but Sky Go does not. I assume because they want people to keep paying more for "multi room". Standard Sky bullshit.
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@no-quarter said in Sky TV:
@No-Quarter scratch that! Chromecast!
(I still don't know what that is to be fair)
Haha, yeah. It's just a little device connected to your WiFi/network that you plug into the back of your TV. Then, if the app allows it you can "cast" to the TV, playing it on the TV instead of the device.
Netflix etc has it, but Sky Go does not. I assume because they want people to keep paying more for "multi room". Standard Sky bullshit.
TVNZ on demand doesn't cast either. Pathetic.
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Lightbox went through major pain and customer loss as a consequence of casting. Apple changed the codecs on them when they changed AirPlay protocols for AppleTV.
Lots of lightbox customers were subscribing via iphones and iPads and casting to their TVs via AirPlay.
Basically it took months to redo/rebuy the library codecs and the pissed off customers left (or didn't take up after free trials).Far easier to build an app for a SmartTV so you only have to change that and push out an update. Casting involves compatibility requirements with Chromecast, Roku, Firestick, AppleTV etc. I understand that the differences in apps on STBs and SmartTV is much easier to deal with.
Back to Sky though, they get their $ no matter how you watch the pictures so I don't see how it disadvantages them to provide an app. I guess it is a bit of pig-headedness in providing a method that isn't through their platform.
In the UK Sky provide a feed through other competitor boxes (for a fee obviously), and with the likes of NowTV you can do similar to FanPass and just buy what you want when you want it.
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I'm sure before I gave SkyGo the boot I had used it on my laptop to TV via HDMI...? Or is that different from a mobile device?
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@taniwharugby said in Sky TV:
I'm sure before I gave SkyGo the boot I had used it on my laptop to TV via HDMI...? Or is that different from a mobile device?
Different from a mobile device.
Computers don't generally care where they send the mobile signal to. Apps can lock down mobile phones a lot more, so they can only send information directly the screen connected to the device.
that said, I'm not a farking IT boffin, so read this shit at your own risk
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@Crucial I completely agree that designing an app for SmartTVs is the way to go. I'm amazed at how few there still are.
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@taniwharugby said in Sky TV:
I'm sure before I gave SkyGo the boot I had used it on my laptop to TV via HDMI...? Or is that different from a mobile device?
Yeah, that's the only way to get it to play on a TV. Messy solution though, casting or a SmartTV app that @Crucial mentioned would be far easier.
