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Sky go and sky now to hit Ps4
- Thread starter madmackem
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My 360 list is always full of people using it so its of use to many people, many people have kids etc or get the details off mates to use its pretty popular at least on my friends list. I use to use it a lot before i got a second box.
Seriously? I know a bunch of people that are waiting for them to announce it, one look at the Sky forums and you'll see plenty of complaints about it. I'm disappointed that they seem to be showing such a lack of interest towards the XB1 app, especially considering all this info MS released in regards to Windows 8 apps being able to be ported to XB1 almost instantly.
Really ?
Multi room costs an extra £10 per month/box , SkyGo costs nothing.
How many consoles are in games rooms / bed rooms / kids rooms etc.
It's was always massively popular in my 360 friends list
SeriuzBiznus
Member
The vocal minority. Over half of current Sky TV subscribers don't even have a HD subscription, let alone a games console for second screen content. Putting Sky Go on the Xbox One would only be done as a way to net new subscribers or as an added benefit to existing customers to encourage them to upgrade/renew contracts. At the moment, the number of customers they would gain from it is not worth the investment.
The investment is hardly anything, especially if along side the PS4 app, and when taking into consideration as to what I said about the PC app porting to XB1, it hardly seems much work? The potential to grab new customers and please existing customers far outweighs the minor investment they'd need to make as far as I'm concerned.
pocketaces
Member
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NekoFever
Member
Especially for me when it won't remember my computer, so every time I log in it thinks it's another device. I end up only being able to watch two things a month because at that point I hit the device activation limit.
Hopefully a dedicated app on the PS4 will work better.
Black Mantis
Member
Yeah, that's how I use mine. I use my mum's details on the 360 and can watch it for free, despite being at a different address. If I had a Sky box at home, I'd still use it on occasion as a multi-room device, just not as much.
SeriuzBiznus
Member
I can't speak to the money/resources for creating the app, but in terms of maintenance and content, each Sky Go platform (iOS, 360, PC etc) requires a unique transcode profile for each material type (sports, entertainment, movies etc) creating a unique version of each asset for the specific platform. Each version of an asset will go through a QA assessment and be manually verified by an operator as well as being scheduled for release and removal from the service depending on license dates. At least 5 different teams are involved in the end to end process. It's a pretty damn significant investment.
JonathanPower
Member
You could also use the app to watch sky on a different TV that you may have on another room. This would be a very neat feature as you would not need to have a second decoder.
Starwolf_UK
Member
The press release did not mention anything about needing PS+ (it would be tragic to see the service go from being locked to Gold to being locked to a different thing) so I guess it is not.
There isn't a PC app to port though. And Windows 8 is strategically pulling away from the App Store it seems, so there's probably never going to be enough PC audience to justify a Metro based app.
It might happen at some point if mobile platforms stabilise, but there's certainly a significant level of extra overhead and testing resource in producing those apps.
Me too.
Winter John
Member
It's perfect for people like me who don't want to have an ugly satelite dish stuck on their house, and refuse to pay the tv licence, so can't watch live tv
Brilliant news.
I seriously hope that the quality is a lot better than it is on 360 though. Half of the time I try to watch something, it never fully buffers and looks blurry as all hell. Even though I don't have the best connection in the world, I have no problem watching things like Netflix in HD with no issue so there shouldn't be any issues here either as far as I'm concerned.
I seriously hope that the quality is a lot better than it is on 360 though. Half of the time I try to watch something, it never fully buffers and looks blurry as all hell. Even though I don't have the best connection in the world, I have no problem watching things like Netflix in HD with no issue so there shouldn't be any issues here either as far as I'm concerned.
That sounds awfully like Smoothstreaming (the protocol used in that case) lowering the stream quality dynamically due to lack of bandwidth.
Just because your ISP's upstream peering arrangements with Netflix are good doesn't mean they're able to pull traffic through from all the other CDNs fast enough.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Ages? I was only able to download it on my Tab 3 a couple of months ago and it still doesn't work across all android devices. Doesn't work on my Moto G for example. It'll happily register the phone but any attempts to watch anything result in an unsupported device message.
Sky are incompetent cunts when it comes to the Sky Go app on Android.
4 devices if you have have sky go extra... A simple phone call can get you that for free if you have a multiroom subscription already
. Failing that it's an extra fiver.There's plenty of people who can't get Sky, Virgin or BT by conventional means for whatever reason, so streaming is the only option for them.
The maximum resolution of Sky's streaming services is 480p, and even then the quality can still be disappointing.
Well that IS the point.
I can't see the point of wheels unless its for moving things around easily.
Huggers
Member
Maybe that's a tablet thing. I certainly had Sky Go on an old Ice Cream Sandwich Nexus device, then on a Note 2 running Jelly Bean over a year and a half ago. It's remarkably good on my Note 3 now as well. Maybe I've been lucky compatibility wise
You still require a TV license to watch Sky Go.
No it isn't. Now TV maxes out at 720p, Sky Go at 1080p on some devices.
jimbobsmells
Member
Wasn't there an article where Sky hinted that integrating Kinect was a problem? I'm sure I remember that...
And if you're watching live TV you need a licence, streaming or not.
Edit: I was wrong, it was the BBC.
And if you're watching live TV you need a licence, streaming or not.
Edit: I was wrong, it was the BBC.
Pankratous
Member
So much approval if true.
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Which devices do 1080p? Certainly none of the ones I've previously used it on.
Winter John
Member
I'm not watching live tv. I'm using the on demand service, which I am legally allowed to do
The only thing that is is Online Play for non MMO games. Do we really need to confirm everything else isn't at this stage?
What?? Where?? I have never seen any mention of an Android Sky Go App, nor is there such a thing on the play store.
Dead Man Typing
Member
Definitely need to improve the quality. It's watchable on 360 but people will have different expectations in 2014 on PS4 vs 2007 on 360.
jimbobsmells
Member
No problem then, on demand isn't subject to the licence.
I was using Sky Go last year (I had the monthly ticked to basically watch Game of Thrones and various stuff on the sports channels) and the quality then was still pretty bad in comparison to stuff like Netflix. It'll stick out like a sore thumb on PS4 as I get excellent quality from Netflix and the WWE Network app.
Winter John
Member
I know it's not a problem. I know more about the ins and outs of tv licensing laws than most people. I have to. Telling the BBC you won't pay their mafia tax, ensures a lot of visits from their goons
Fair enough.
I'd expect the current early adopter profile of Xbox one owners overlaps significantly with being SkyHD subscribers and multi TV owners. So there would be value in offering it. And I would expect they'd bundle up the transcode profiles so they could use a common one for 360/Xbox one/PS4 etc where possible.
wonder if this would work with remoteplay on Vita?
Huggers
Member
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.skygo
Or for tablets; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.skygotablet
I use it daily, great app
The Sky Go app is white listed for certain devices after they check the drivers don't compromise the DRM. But they're going to stop doing that, and there's a Tablet only Sky Go app that works on any tablet device. Sky said that once that's stable they'll adopt the same approach with Android phones.
But it definitely isn't stable yet, so it's a WIP.
Ah thanks, it's only available in the UK and Ireland, not in Germany (although the iOS version is as far as I know). Fuckthisshit.
It won't.
And the transcode profile for the 360 wouldn't play on the PS4 (or any non-MS/Silverlight device). I don't recall if HLS or MPEG-DASH are supported on the 360. I don't think so.
Just use twitch on the PS4 browser. Works flawlessly.