I’ve had Glass for around 7 months now and being totally honest in the beginning yes there were more than a few issues but as time has gone on Sky do seem to have fixed the majority of them. Issues with the ITV hub have now disappeared, the tv no longer switches off whenever it feels like it and it doesn’t freeze anymore either. I’m more than happy with it, it’s a great tv with fantastic picture and quality sound. Not being able to record things to watch again a year later isn’t a problem for me personally. Most things that I watch tend to stay on catch up for more than long enough. Never had any issues with the Glass pucks either, they work absolutely fine. A friend who is a Sky engineer has told me that the next generation of Glass tv’s isn’t that far away and current Glass customers will get the opportunity to just upgrade to it, give back their old Glass tv and renew their package. The new tv’s will more than likely have even better sound, picture and added recording abilities I’ve been told 👍🏻 so if you’ve already got one like me don’t worry as you’ll be able to upgrade, and if you dont already have one then you may want to wait until the new version comes out.
Hi just got my tv and I'm no happy with the picture quality,my old tv is much better and I thought getting the sky tv would be better,have you idea what's wrong
i've noticed they have 4k tv now. but i've got sky stream was cheaper than Q and worked fine for me there has been loads of moaners about stream but mines off a three 4g dongle and works HD fine on all channels. only downside if your bothered is it takes a while to start up and sometimes says wifi not working when i have it wired in, and changing channel takes a while sometimes but thats probably down to my internet. but other than that it works great and the layout exactly the same as glass. i've noticed the picture quality on my stream is way better than my Q box was and its only down as 1080p atm not UHD.
Make sure you allow the delivery people to unpack and assemble because it is very heavy and has a very complicated stand that needs two people to put together This is on a rolling contract now so you can cancel your sky subscription at any time after a month I got the 43” and will pay £13 a month for it and £26 for the tv, so £39 a month when I needed a new tv and was paying Sky £31 anyway for hardly anything you pay the £13 for 48 months to purchase the tv, if you cancel your subscription then it becomes a smart tv with freeview but not sure how that works if I would need an aerial? Or if it just gives the free sky channels It does “record” so not sure why people say it doesn’t you add programs to your playlist now instead of actual recording so far I’m happy with it because as I said I needed a new tv and when I move house now I can’t just take the tv and no waiting 4 weeks for sky to come and put a dish or box in
Thanks! I was intrigued about the TV but also felt it would be a downgrade due to lack of recording etc BUT worse if we lose internet which we regularly do, we lose Sky. I feel this is an approach to lower hardware expense by finally removing the dish in the near future. Our internet just isn't reliable enough. Although counter intuitive if say this TV could connect to our Q box like the mini box in our bedroom it would be a cool bedroom TV but as it's one or the other, sadly it's of no use. Nice effort though it's very early Imac in design.
It's new and will get better. And channels will get added...if you like wires and boxes everywhere good on you..I got sky glass from having sky Q no regrets.
Problem is my Sky Q is about to expire. After 18 years they are quoting me a crazy renewal price. They want me to get glass but I’m happy with a Sky Q. Can’t get Virgin unless running a load of coax cables round my house.
Sky still ripping customers off as usual. Majority of houses will or soon will have a games system that won’t work properly on this system. The tv is a tone in weight and you will need a really good wall mounting bracket and a really thick well built wall to hang it on. £5 to pause and rewind is a joke.
Thank you for a clear and informative video on Sky Glass. We have an LG TV with a separate sound bare. We have a basic package with Sky and after we redecorate we want to have a TV in the alcove on a remote control bracket and will be looking to get a new TV doing away with as many wires as possible. I have Fibromyalgia which effects my eyes too so I need a picture quality to be as crisp as possible too. There is so much out there now and I just have no idea what to look for 🤷🏻♀️ I don’t want to ask in a store as I just feel fobbed off with what ever TV’s they are trying to shift! You’ve raised some great points so far as we can’t bare adverts and always fast forward so if we got Sky glass we would pay the extra. Not being very tech minded I’m just doing my best to research and try to decipher which is best. We won’t be doing any gaming for sure so I guess 60 kHz would be ok, again🤷🏻♀️The picture quality is a must and a good quality built in speaker (husbands hearing nit as good) but being in a bungalow not a huge room it shouldn’t take much to achieve what are needs are. Any pointers would be great fully received 🙏🏻 Thank you so much 📺😊
THANKS* Very Much For your opinion on sky glass tv as you say its not worth it.. sky glass is not in republic of Ireland yet its suppose to LAUNCH soon so I`m Glad you told me....so ill just stick to skyQ.
SKY Glass is a con. I bought Sky Glass, not on a credit agreement, I stupidly bought it and paid in full in March. The TV was at first faulty and got replaced in July. Between then and now I've had a growing frustration with it. Ultimately this product is inferior to Q. You can't record. You get less channels. So I decided I wanted out. The problem is this. When I did the research I discussed the TV with a Sky Rep at a stand, and gave him the hypothetical situation that if I wanted to change product in the future I could sell the TV (the benefit of buying it outright) and someone else could use it. They said yes, this was possible. Well. That is a lie. You can't. When you sell the TV no one else can use it and attach a Sky Glass subscription to it. Basically it is useless. You ae essentially painting yourself into a corner as you now have a TV no one wants to buy as it can't be used as the thing it is advertised for. Needless to say I am now seeking legal advice on this. As SKY clearly must have the ability to attach anew subscription to a TV. They are basically just limiting the free trade of the TVs on the open market (people wanting to sell as they want a new product) but buyers not being able to use the TV. I'm now raising this with a number of consumer bodies. SKY must have the ability to change TVs to new owners as they did when they sent me my new one - and let’s face it they will have sold on the faulty TV after they had fixed it. People need to be aware of this limitation with Glass. An inferior product to Q. And ultimately an inability to be able to sell on for the purpose it was intended. I tried to resolve the mis selling with SKY and they have washed their hands of it.
I have the tv in my bedroomand it isn’t average the screen is amazing and the sound quality is amazing I will be getting one for my living room after Christmas.
Just switched to sky glass from virgin... I was paying £89 with virgin on there old ultimate oomph bundle but now they have stopped it I have to upgrade to different packages and it would put the cost upto £167 a month!!! That's right neally double the price 😂 so... Iv looked at prices ect... Stay with virgin for just broadband (I can't get fibre from by landline yet in my area so have to be with virgin if I want good speeds and I really need it with kids gaming haha) that's £31.50 a month for 500mb... Then £62 a month for glass 65" with 1 puck, total's £93.50 then take out a 8gb SIM (in replace for one iv lost from virgin) £8 so in total that's £101.50 ... I'm my opinion that's better than paying £167 a month to stay with virgin haha.. and tbh we had a 50inch TV that's was LED so picture quality defoo better.. we had a standard sound bar (which will now go in my room) so I think I done okay haha and stops my son pulling on the virgin wires through the house he's only 11 months lmaoo
Sky said I could register to upgrade to Sky Glass and thought I had better see if a UA-camr had given a review. Thank God I did. If my hub stops working, I lose service to my home phone because it's connected to that. I definitely don't want to be watching footie or F1 race and the picture goes off due to hub issues. Also I like to record dramas so I can whizz through adverts. If I can't do that then Sky Glass is not for me. Thanks for the very informative review.
I have 43inch Sky Glass for the reasons mentioned. I needed a new TV, I did not want/ and could not have a dish. I was hacked off with Virgin, I'm not a gamer and I could not be arsed with the other stuff like sound system. Plus is came in pretty colours like a phone. I had thought the loss of recording might be difficult, but to be honest I'd record whoe series on my Tivo box and never watch them. So it did not matter in the end and I’ve had it almost a year. Works for me, as really only need something to watch TV, Netflix etc.
You also can't use Hue lights on the back of the tv either, as they need an HDMI out from the source, which the TV doesn't have, and as you've rightly said, no bluetooth functionality means no more headphones, and if you want to use the TV without a subscription you're pretty much getting a monitor only, you can't even plug in a fire stick as the USB can't power them. It's just solving one set of problems and creating numerous others in the process. It's as if sky think their customers don't buy expensive equipment to go with their expensive viewing subscription. Like 99% of other people who take one look into the details of glass, we'll wait for it to come in a set top box as this isn't the sky over broadband anyone asked for or wants.
I had sky glass delivered and two days later I had it returned. The picture is not as good as sky Q . What this man is saying is so true. Check it out first. The salesmen don’t know everything.
People are missing the point here, sky brought the tv out so people that are unable to have dish’s on their buildings as in high rise flats, conservation areas, listed properties can have sky, what happened is people liked the concept of it, as in removing the dish from the walls and cables everywhere that they purchased it, then moaned, I got it as I now have one plug used instead of 3 , I can remove the trunking around my wall that carries the cables from the dish, and I do t have to fork out 400 plus for an Atmos sound bar, and then fix that to the wall etc…. People you have a choice don’t complain about other peoples
It doesnt help that none of the TV adds are about solving the problem of having Sky on a communal system. I think if uptake is less than expected from communal blocks they can do a tailored advert.
The concept seems ingenious but in reality it is a very expensive solution to sky making satelite dishes obsolete. Although sky now do 30 day contracts and seems like the tv is a good buy. The 48 month plan sky are pushing to make it look affordable is slightly onerous as they only offer a 24 month warranty. My question would be if it breaks down after the first two years how much will it cost to get repaired or will it be a case of you buying another tv on another 48 month plan. This would mean you may for instance have 2 years left to pay on the first tv that no longer works and another 48 months on the new tv. It will be one way of sky ensuring they are earning money from their customers and keeping you tied into them for the longer term. You also have to bear in mind that inorder for sky to attract customers the tv has to be resonably priced but what will be the cost in the long run. I am an ex sky customer as was fed up of all their price increases and have a much better quality tv and sound system costing not much more than their 65 inch set costs. All in one solutions are not long term viable solutions.
If they develop Sky Glass in the future I will consider switching but for now im sticking with my Dish/SkyQ - love the ability to record and can not stand the way they have this set up on the new skyglass. Badly thought out product so far. thanks for the review
Two points not mentioned regarding the Playlist. ITV Hub to where SKY Glass shunts you for ITV catch-up when you want to view your Playlisted episode of Emmerdale is in poor quality SD. Other problem is that a Playlist episode broadcast on say, a Geo Graphic broadcast might only be available to be streamed on a different channel where you don’t have a subscription. Noted, your highlighting that if you leave watching an ITV Playlisted item and wanted to return later you would have to wade through the adverts all over again. Wondering, can you actually skip through these ads at all? Isn’t the ad skip feature only for SKY broadcasts?
Got to laugh at the news today about all the Sky TVs that are not turning on, due to a bad update going out and not being able to even use HDMI inputs or Freeview... it was clear at the time, this is a TV locked to Sky so why bother? Just get a regular TV, and wait until they release the inevitable Sky Glass dongle or box, that could plug into any TV. Which they later did indeed offer such a device.
@@ItsSamuelJones shaky start with the first few days having to switch it off and on again at the plug because of a black screen issue but after a software update it’s been flawless ever since, like the ‘play from start’ option on almost every programme and the playlist works well, love the sound and picture quality is amazing after following Vincent from HDTV tests guide.
I struggle to understand why anyone would buy this as opposed to just getting a good smart TV & a sky stream/Q box. If you ever want to stop paying sky you simply stop the subscription and you have a great TV. If you do this with sky Glass you have an expensive TV that doesn't do much. Also you cannot even record programmes on this thing since it has no storage. Many people this out too late.
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Thanks for the review. Had my 65in Glass for 48 hours and it’s going back. Poor picture quality with ghosting and banding while watching sport and constant freezing. If I’m totally honest a potential great product, but at this point it’s not ready for market and the panels used are not up to the job. Back to Sky Q for me.
@@ItsSamuelJones when watching sport you get like a type of banding running down the screen. It’s as if the screen is dirty/foggy . When football is on you see it the most due to the big pitch area. It’s something that cannot be fixed. You can run a grey test from UA-cam and that will usually show how poor it is under certain conditions. My 4 year old Samsung LCD 4K panel is so much better.
Will stick with q I think ,for the price ect I would expect a 120hz panel and like u said sky are getting very greedy wanting cash for everything ,I also feel for the engineers that will no longer be required to put up dishes ect.
In Australia We Now Have Hubbl Glass (same as sky Glass) just with a different software skin. Hubbl owned by Fox. Also Hubbl TV Hub Box (sky stream box). Came out in March 2024 here. So 2 yrs old Tech.
I've literally just today installed the 65" sky glass TV. It's costing me £69 p/m for a basic TV package, broadband, netflix and kids channels (also includes the 65" TV). This is £20 cheaper than my Virgin media package - without Netflix. I was over due a new TV so this is a very, very welcoming package for me. Very happy so far.
That's the trick. I think as package its a good idea. especially coming from something like virgin. I wouldn't choose it over Sky Q if you can get it though
I had my tv bracket from old one and a new universal one. Neither fit. Children’s channels aren’t working. In fact the mrs just put Netflix on as standard channels wasn’t working. Buyers remorse is real. Edit: not to mention the high latency with games don’t get me started. May send it back or move ps5 upstairs on the 1080p bravia which looks better.
FYI if you really want to you can connect a fire tv stick to this product. Doubt you can winge if your IpTV don’t work tho as it’s an illegal service anyways. Fire stick will be powered by the usb c with the correct connector. IpTV is the only reason you would complain about the fire stick as the tv is basically a 65 fire stick… Bluetooth isn’t built in but you can add this (apparently) via hdmi l and Tv backing light also doable using usbc again with correct connector usbc/usb. If you are like me and my family and watch 0 live tv but still manage to record half of the shows on tv and never watch them and pay £75 a month to watch one episode of the good doctor a week and stream everything else on Netflix and you are in the market to upgrade your smart tv I would say why not?
Sky brought this out because they are a business not because they think of the needs of it’s customers. Think about it, a sky TV from sky displaying sky interface in your living room. Why have they done this? It’s another step in them getting people to become reliant on their service. They don’t give away free tvs. I’m guessing you don’t keep the tv when the contact ends? Where does this leave you when you switch to let’s say free sat? It leaves you With no tv and to save hassle of getting a new tv just to switch to another provider, you don’t bother and keep paying sky as it’s less stressful. This company ain’t daft, they want to control its customers by getting them excited by having a new tv but then leave them trapped and reliant upon them to keep up with the subscriptions which inevitably go up and up. Don’t be fooled, stick with your q box and your OWN tv.
I would avoid this cos energy F is too high for electricity bill.. my Samsung 50" 4k uhd is AAA++ and use sky q uhd box with1tb hard drive that prefect...
Two of a few reasons I won't buy SKY GLASS is there's no ability to record things and the channel list is the exact same list on SKY GO which has a lot of channels missing. They claim their solution for not having the ability to record is pure bull. When you miss a program you wanted to watch only a small percentage allow you to watch from the beginning and if there's two programs you wanted to watch at on at the same time your SOL.
I was going to get this but as soon as you mentioned adverts I’ve decided it’s a no for me, I have Q and a devialet sound bar so won’t bother and I am sure my Apple TV won’t work so well on this, thanks,for a good review showing all the issues that might be present
Come on you don't need sky mean most people who NEED it use it for sports or movies Cheapest way is a £300 nice LG TV and get Now tv up and running then add sports or add sky movies etc Much cheaper
I am just thinking if you have the TV and paid it off in full so you own it now but don't want sky anymore and want to use lets say virgin or freeview will the TV let you or if you cancel the sky will the TV just brick it self that is what i want to know. As having that all in one sometimes means you have what is in the TV and you cant use anything else. And will the TV even work still if you cancel Sky on other things like a game console or is it only for TV.
You say it doesn't need a satellite, yet the sky website says: "Sky functionality requires two satellite feeds. You must get any consents required (e.g. landlord's)." For someone that doesnt have or want a satellite feed due to me not paying for a TV licence, can I still use this TV and its smart features?
I can tell you the streaming quality is nowhere near as good, you only.have to look at the picture quality of the itv hub, it's completely second rate.... Most streaming services are not good quality, including the BBC.... Basically lowered and lower the quality over the years...
I’m interested but no good to me, I want a 32” tv as anything bigger I can’t have in my living room. So a customer lost there. Not everyone has rooms large enough to accommodate a very large screen tv.
People who are negative obviously got refused i have no problem with mine nothing u say mate is true my partner has sky q and says mine is cheaper and better ppppfffftttttt says a lot that dont ya think my only regret is not switching sooner
ITV hub adverts are the worse . They even put adverts over the top of live TV so I turned into ITV 1. Had 40 or so seconds of adverts then it joined the live feed which then went to an advert break lol.
I don’t think I’ll be investing in Sky glass. The box seems more for people who still watch old school traditional TV. I haven’t really dealt with ads in a long time as I use the likes of Netflix and UA-cam premium.
Now people are getting used to the format noone cares if it can record or not. However as a business, if there were demand for it I am sure a hard drive can be encorperated. Can you get a 3rd party storage device to conjectvto one of the hdmi ports
I have sky + I can’t have sky Q because we have a communal dish which serves all the apartments also if the dish goes down I have no sky.so I am looking into sky glass
Also think of it this way…. Sky are offering redundancies to all their engineers phasing the installation engineers out so how long will sky q be reliable and what will you do to fix issues? Instead they are employing broadband engineers. I’ve had nothing but problems with sky q boxes just breaking down and waiting 2 weeks for an engineer. How long will this wait be in a years time?
This is sky glass version 1.0 so all the extraslike "only 60hz" means nothing because if theres the demand they will build the future generations with the most in demand features. This video was from 4 months ago and most of these bugs are either fixed or will inform the design of the next version. You get your first puck for free when you take out whole home
I have a 4K TV and stream everything via Chromecast inc Twitch, Netflix, Prime Video, BBB IPlayer etc etc for under a tenner a month. Works like a dream, so Sky is far too expensive. No boxes, no dish, no wires plus inbuilt Freeview.
dude... for the most part this video is good... but the pricing is way off. You chose a 2 channel 40w sound bar at £149 (although now £89) - sky glass has a 6 channel set up with up to 215w output with built in dolby atmos compatibility --- these are not on the same level... it would be like comparing the samsung a series smartphone speakers with iPhone 13 speakers but it's interesting about the TV comparison. I was looking at upgrading our second TV -- i just dont understand why sky couldnt add a harddrive or even an option to plug in a portable one - the fact the usb-c port is power only means there is no way around this. If your internet goes down you are screwed and limited to terrestrial TV, which not everyone gets a great signal the old fashion way, hence sky. They could easily have it so episodes can be downloaded (just like on sky q they download for better-uninterrupted watching) - it's a very strange move. They could also have built this so it could be linked to a sky q box I might look at the samsung tv instead now
Samuel Jones Tech, I’m glad I watched your review because I’d be fuming 😡 if I’d of swapped from sky Q, but I must say though I’ve been with sky for a long time now an in all the years never had a problem with either tv or broadband, so while it’s not for me like you said be great an more suited to others.👌👌👌👌
I do not see why the refresh rate of 60hz should be an issue for gamers? The human eye cannot tell the difference between 50hz or 60hz, so how can I tell the difference with a faster refresh rate? BlueRay DVD and some HD channel’s refresh at less than 30hz
There's a few reasons. It is definitely not as big an issue for most people though. I think VRR is more important and it reducing things like screen tearing etc. but for 90% of people 60HZ will be fine.
Just waiting to have Sky Glass taken away. The picture is vague and washed out, we have the 65in tv and it’s really poor. Compared with the LG 55in we had attached to the old Sky +HD box….the picture is not just rubbish. The sound a good. That’s not an issue. The playlist stuff is rubbish. Having to log in to ITV hub and BBC iPlayer etc is a pain, you then inherit all the adverts that come and it’s a pain. So we’ve gone for Sky Q and are plugging the LG back in. Honestly the premise is okay, it is what will happen and how we are going forward…..but this isn’t up to snuff yet. Maybe in three to four years.
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I bought the 55inch and hate it news programmes i like not there, Fi set on playback not recorded apparently I dont pay for HD when all there channels are HD. I want to send it back Any Idea's. ?
Also, think about negative comments about the picture and sound standards. Its not fair to compare sky glass to a £10000 hoke cinema setup. You'd be connecting a puck to your home cinema equipment so you can have your cake and eat it.
You can compare it to a TV of similar price though. And in a lot of cases you can get more for your money. Sky glass works best as people can incorporate the cost into their plan which makes it affordable.
A pile of rubbish !!! Straight up fit for the bin
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I’ve had Glass for around 7 months now and being totally honest in the beginning yes there were more than a few issues but as time has gone on Sky do seem to have fixed the majority of them. Issues with the ITV hub have now disappeared, the tv no longer switches off whenever it feels like it and it doesn’t freeze anymore either. I’m more than happy with it, it’s a great tv with fantastic picture and quality sound. Not being able to record things to watch again a year later isn’t a problem for me personally. Most things that I watch tend to stay on catch up for more than long enough. Never had any issues with the Glass pucks either, they work absolutely fine. A friend who is a Sky engineer has told me that the next generation of Glass tv’s isn’t that far away and current Glass customers will get the opportunity to just upgrade to it, give back their old Glass tv and renew their package. The new tv’s will more than likely have even better sound, picture and added recording abilities I’ve been told 👍🏻 so if you’ve already got one like me don’t worry as you’ll be able to upgrade, and if you dont already have one then you may want to wait until the new version comes out.
Hi just got my tv and I'm no happy with the picture quality,my old tv is much better and I thought getting the sky tv would be better,have you idea what's wrong
i've noticed they have 4k tv now. but i've got sky stream was cheaper than Q and worked fine for me there has been loads of moaners about stream but mines off a three 4g dongle and works HD fine on all channels. only downside if your bothered is it takes a while to start up and sometimes says wifi not working when i have it wired in, and changing channel takes a while sometimes but thats probably down to my internet. but other than that it works great and the layout exactly the same as glass. i've noticed the picture quality on my stream is way better than my Q box was and its only down as 1080p atm not UHD.
How do you watch a program later on a channel that has no catch up service ?
Make sure you allow the delivery people to unpack and assemble because it is very heavy and has a very complicated stand that needs two people to put together
This is on a rolling contract now so you can cancel your sky subscription at any time after a month
I got the 43” and will pay £13 a month for it and £26 for the tv, so £39 a month when I needed a new tv and was paying Sky £31 anyway for hardly anything you pay the £13 for 48 months to purchase the tv, if you cancel your subscription then it becomes a smart tv with freeview but not sure how that works if I would need an aerial?
Or if it just gives the free sky channels
It does “record” so not sure why people say it doesn’t you add programs to your playlist now instead of actual recording so far I’m happy with it because as I said I needed a new tv and when I move house now I can’t just take the tv and no waiting 4 weeks for sky to come and put a dish or box in
Thanks! I was intrigued about the TV but also felt it would be a downgrade due to lack of recording etc BUT worse if we lose internet which we regularly do, we lose Sky. I feel this is an approach to lower hardware expense by finally removing the dish in the near future. Our internet just isn't reliable enough. Although counter intuitive if say this TV could connect to our Q box like the mini box in our bedroom it would be a cool bedroom TV but as it's one or the other, sadly it's of no use. Nice effort though it's very early Imac in design.
It's new and will get better. And channels will get added...if you like wires and boxes everywhere good on you..I got sky glass from having sky Q no regrets.
Ordered mine today I'm on sky q currently I'm hoping it's good as my current TV is 10 years old
Problem is my Sky Q is about to expire. After 18 years they are quoting me a crazy renewal price. They want me to get glass but I’m happy with a Sky Q. Can’t get Virgin unless running a load of coax cables round my house.
Sky still ripping customers off as usual.
Majority of houses will or soon will have a games system that won’t work properly on this system. The tv is a tone in weight and you will need a really good wall mounting bracket and a really thick well built wall to hang it on. £5 to pause and rewind is a joke.
Thank you for a clear and informative video on Sky Glass. We have an LG TV with a separate sound bare. We have a basic package with Sky and after we redecorate we want to have a TV in the alcove on a remote control bracket and will be looking to get a new TV doing away with as many wires as possible. I have Fibromyalgia which effects my eyes too so I need a picture quality to be as crisp as possible too. There is so much out there now and I just have no idea what to look for 🤷🏻♀️ I don’t want to ask in a store as I just feel fobbed off with what ever TV’s they are trying to shift! You’ve raised some great points so far as we can’t bare adverts and always fast forward so if we got Sky glass we would pay the extra. Not being very tech minded I’m just doing my best to research and try to decipher which is best. We won’t be doing any gaming for sure so I guess 60 kHz would be ok, again🤷🏻♀️The picture quality is a must and a good quality built in speaker (husbands hearing nit as good) but being in a bungalow not a huge room it shouldn’t take much to achieve what are needs are. Any pointers would be great fully received 🙏🏻 Thank you so much 📺😊
Thanks for this informative review. I would have been caught out by lack of DVR - SkyQ will now remain for a few years or until Sky Glass mk.2
THANKS* Very Much For your opinion on sky glass tv as you say its not worth it.. sky glass is not in republic of Ireland yet its suppose to LAUNCH soon so I`m Glad you told me....so ill just stick to skyQ.
I think what sky and the broadcasters have realised is that people record things and SKIP the adverts.
SKY Glass is a con.
I bought Sky Glass, not on a credit agreement, I stupidly bought it and paid in full in March. The TV was at first faulty and got replaced in July. Between then and now I've had a growing frustration with it.
Ultimately this product is inferior to Q. You can't record. You get less channels. So I decided I wanted out.
The problem is this. When I did the research I discussed the TV with a Sky Rep at a stand, and gave him the hypothetical situation that if I wanted to change product in the future I could sell the TV (the benefit of buying it outright) and someone else could use it.
They said yes, this was possible.
Well. That is a lie. You can't.
When you sell the TV no one else can use it and attach a Sky Glass subscription to it. Basically it is useless. You ae essentially painting yourself into a corner as you now have a TV no one wants to buy as it can't be used as the thing it is advertised for.
Needless to say I am now seeking legal advice on this. As SKY clearly must have the ability to attach anew subscription to a TV. They are basically just limiting the free trade of the TVs on the open market (people wanting to sell as they want a new product) but buyers not being able to use the TV.
I'm now raising this with a number of consumer bodies. SKY must have the ability to change TVs to new owners as they did when they sent me my new one - and let’s face it they will have sold on the faulty TV after they had fixed it.
People need to be aware of this limitation with Glass. An inferior product to Q. And ultimately an inability to be able to sell on for the purpose it was intended.
I tried to resolve the mis selling with SKY and they have washed their hands of it.
I just can't afford a new 4k TV so this was a god send for me we can't all be like u who has everything
It is just as expensive as other 4k TV's though. Sky just offer it on a credit plan.
@@ItsSamuelJones thats what I like about it I can pay monthly and it only 17 pounds iv not got 850 pounds just like that
@@dark147891exactly we were the same, needed a new tv, don’t have £900 spare to buy one, we wanted more stuff to watch anyway so this suits.
Great advice. I was intrigued by Sky glass but have Sky Q already. So yeah, pointless losing DVR function just to buy an average 4K tv.
Thank you.
I have the tv in my bedroomand it isn’t average the screen is amazing and the sound quality is amazing I will be getting one for my living room after Christmas.
When I heard hdmi 2.1 I was excited but no 120hz for the PS5 etc was very disapointing to hear. A pass from me!!!
Cheers for the review. Will stick to my lovely Sky Q
me to :-)
its rubbish for the price tag, go out and buy at same price with superior high tech tv.. sky its aint no smart tv
No thanks 😂 💰
It will go the same way as the sky soundbox -- 2 years later never to be seen again. Oled and Denon is the way to go
Just switched to sky glass from virgin... I was paying £89 with virgin on there old ultimate oomph bundle but now they have stopped it I have to upgrade to different packages and it would put the cost upto £167 a month!!! That's right neally double the price 😂 so... Iv looked at prices ect... Stay with virgin for just broadband (I can't get fibre from by landline yet in my area so have to be with virgin if I want good speeds and I really need it with kids gaming haha) that's £31.50 a month for 500mb... Then £62 a month for glass 65" with 1 puck, total's £93.50 then take out a 8gb SIM (in replace for one iv lost from virgin) £8 so in total that's £101.50 ... I'm my opinion that's better than paying £167 a month to stay with virgin haha.. and tbh we had a 50inch TV that's was LED so picture quality defoo better.. we had a standard sound bar (which will now go in my room) so I think I done okay haha and stops my son pulling on the virgin wires through the house he's only 11 months lmaoo
Sky said I could register to upgrade to Sky Glass and thought I had better see if a UA-camr had given a review. Thank God I did. If my hub stops working, I lose service to my home phone because it's connected to that. I definitely don't want to be watching footie or F1 race and the picture goes off due to hub issues. Also I like to record dramas so I can whizz through adverts. If I can't do that then Sky Glass is not for me. Thanks for the very informative review.
Thanks. I think you are spot on! Will stick with Q!
I have a dog called Sky. Do I have to change its name?
Call it glass
I have 43inch Sky Glass for the reasons mentioned. I needed a new TV, I did not want/ and could not have a dish. I was hacked off with Virgin, I'm not a gamer and I could not be arsed with the other stuff like sound system. Plus is came in pretty colours like a phone. I had thought the loss of recording might be difficult, but to be honest I'd record whoe series on my Tivo box and never watch them. So it did not matter in the end and I’ve had it almost a year. Works for me, as really only need something to watch TV, Netflix etc.
You also can't use Hue lights on the back of the tv either, as they need an HDMI out from the source, which the TV doesn't have, and as you've rightly said, no bluetooth functionality means no more headphones, and if you want to use the TV without a subscription you're pretty much getting a monitor only, you can't even plug in a fire stick as the USB can't power them. It's just solving one set of problems and creating numerous others in the process. It's as if sky think their customers don't buy expensive equipment to go with their expensive viewing subscription.
Like 99% of other people who take one look into the details of glass, we'll wait for it to come in a set top box as this isn't the sky over broadband anyone asked for or wants.
I think moving away from 18 month contracts will be brilliant for anyone worried about being tied into a contract then losing their job.
I like the way you push the pro and cons without been overly harsh or excited. Nice style! Good content
My concern is if you have iffy internet connection then there TV will keep buffering. Is that true as it doesn't use an aerial.
I had sky glass delivered and two days later I had it returned. The picture is not as good as sky Q . What this man is saying is so true. Check it out first. The salesmen don’t know everything.
Will Sky allow you to go back to your previous Sky package?
Salesman know sales and that's all any of them care about
People are missing the point here, sky brought the tv out so people that are unable to have dish’s on their buildings as in high rise flats, conservation areas, listed properties can have sky, what happened is people liked the concept of it, as in removing the dish from the walls and cables everywhere that they purchased it, then moaned, I got it as I now have one plug used instead of 3 , I can remove the trunking around my wall that carries the cables from the dish, and I do t have to fork out 400 plus for an Atmos sound bar, and then fix that to the wall etc…. People you have a choice don’t complain about other peoples
It doesnt help that none of the TV adds are about solving the problem of having Sky on a communal system. I think if uptake is less than expected from communal blocks they can do a tailored advert.
The concept seems ingenious but in reality it is a very expensive solution to sky making satelite dishes obsolete. Although sky now do 30 day contracts and seems like the tv is a good buy. The 48 month plan sky are pushing to make it look affordable is slightly onerous as they only offer a 24 month warranty. My question would be if it breaks down after the first two years how much will it cost to get repaired or will it be a case of you buying another tv on another 48 month plan. This would mean you may for instance have 2 years left to pay on the first tv that no longer works and another 48 months on the new tv. It will be one way of sky ensuring they are earning money from their customers and keeping you tied into them for the longer term. You also have to bear in mind that inorder for sky to attract customers the tv has to be resonably priced but what will be the cost in the long run. I am an ex sky customer as was fed up of all their price increases and have a much better quality tv and sound system costing not much more than their 65 inch set costs. All in one solutions are not long term viable solutions.
If they develop Sky Glass in the future I will consider switching but for now im sticking with my Dish/SkyQ - love the ability to record and can not stand the way they have this set up on the new skyglass. Badly thought out product so far. thanks for the review
We live in a conservation area and a listed house.. So we aren’t allowed a satellite dish (yes, really) so sky glass is perfect for us
Two points not mentioned regarding the Playlist.
ITV Hub to where SKY Glass shunts you for ITV catch-up when you want to view your Playlisted episode of Emmerdale
is in poor quality SD. Other problem is that a Playlist episode broadcast on say, a Geo Graphic broadcast might only be available to be streamed on a different channel where you don’t have a subscription.
Noted, your highlighting that if you leave watching an ITV Playlisted item and wanted to return later you would have to wade through the adverts all over again.
Wondering,
can you actually skip through these ads at all? Isn’t the ad skip feature only for SKY broadcasts?
I’ve seen that you can forward-wind the itv ads on another video. Should just not be shown them if you’re paying £5/month in my opinion!
@@ItsSamuelJones £3.99 a month to ITV to get rid of the ads!
Got to laugh at the news today about all the Sky TVs that are not turning on, due to a bad update going out and not being able to even use HDMI inputs or Freeview... it was clear at the time, this is a TV locked to Sky so why bother?
Just get a regular TV, and wait until they release the inevitable Sky Glass dongle or box, that could plug into any TV. Which they later did indeed offer such a device.
Got all the apps I need on my new Android TV so will be cancelling sky Q
Thanks met, just cancelled the delivery…got skyQ will stick to that
Video begins…. “So before you order Sky Glass”
Me who’s had it since the 18th of October: 😬
Overall impression? 👍🏻 or 👎🏻
@@ItsSamuelJones shaky start with the first few days having to switch it off and on again at the plug because of a black screen issue but after a software update it’s been flawless ever since, like the ‘play from start’ option on almost every programme and the playlist works well, love the sound and picture quality is amazing after following Vincent from HDTV tests guide.
I struggle to understand why anyone would buy this as opposed to just getting a good smart TV & a sky stream/Q box. If you ever want to stop paying sky you simply stop the subscription and you have a great TV. If you do this with sky Glass you have an expensive TV that doesn't do much. Also you cannot even record programmes on this thing since it has no storage. Many people this out too late.
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Jesus saves
Thanks for the review. I always record drama on itv because of the adverts. Definitely won’t be getting sky glass. Hate adverts.
Thanks for the review. Had my 65in Glass for 48 hours and it’s going back. Poor picture quality with ghosting and banding while watching sport and constant freezing. If I’m totally honest a potential great product, but at this point it’s not ready for market and the panels used are not up to the job.
Back to Sky Q for me.
Sorry to hear that. Interesting to hear about the panel. Have been quite a few reports of similar issues around as well
@@ItsSamuelJones when watching sport you get like a type of banding running down the screen. It’s as if the screen is dirty/foggy . When football is on you see it the most due to the big pitch area. It’s something that cannot be fixed. You can run a grey test from UA-cam and that will usually show how poor it is under certain conditions. My 4 year old Samsung LCD 4K panel is so much better.
Exactly the same. Sport on UHD is nothing like as good as sport on standard HD.
Id rather just use a £30 firestick and £80 a year for every channel you can think off. Sick of paying for sky/virgin.
Not going to have a choice soon. 2028, and sky q will be no more, sky glass/stream or no sky.
Too late I ordered
Will stick with q I think ,for the price ect I would expect a 120hz panel and like u said sky are getting very greedy wanting cash for everything ,I also feel for the engineers that will no longer be required to put up dishes ect.
In Australia We Now Have Hubbl Glass (same as sky Glass) just with a different software skin. Hubbl owned by Fox.
Also Hubbl TV Hub Box (sky stream box). Came out in March 2024 here. So 2 yrs old Tech.
This feels like a huge downgrade from q
Was Going to buy the 65inch Thank you so so much for thi Review save myself a fortune that Sky glass TV is TOTALLY SHIT 👍💯
I've literally just today installed the 65" sky glass TV. It's costing me £69 p/m for a basic TV package, broadband, netflix and kids channels (also includes the 65" TV). This is £20 cheaper than my Virgin media package - without Netflix.
I was over due a new TV so this is a very, very welcoming package for me. Very happy so far.
That's the trick. I think as package its a good idea. especially coming from something like virgin. I wouldn't choose it over Sky Q if you can get it though
@@ItsSamuelJones But what if you don't want the satellite dish?
I had my tv bracket from old one and a new universal one. Neither fit. Children’s channels aren’t working. In fact the mrs just put Netflix on as standard channels wasn’t working. Buyers remorse is real. Edit: not to mention the high latency with games don’t get me started. May send it back or move ps5 upstairs on the 1080p bravia which looks better.
I wish you all would stop saying heach, it is h or each🤔🙄
FYI if you really want to you can connect a fire tv stick to this product. Doubt you can winge if your IpTV don’t work tho as it’s an illegal service anyways. Fire stick will be powered by the usb c with the correct connector. IpTV is the only reason you would complain about the fire stick as the tv is basically a 65 fire stick… Bluetooth isn’t built in but you can add this (apparently) via hdmi l and Tv backing light also doable using usbc again with correct connector usbc/usb. If you are like me and my family and watch 0 live tv but still manage to record half of the shows on tv and never watch them and pay £75 a month to watch one episode of the good doctor a week and stream everything else on Netflix and you are in the market to upgrade your smart tv I would say why not?
I don't use sky I use kodi
Sky brought this out because they are a business not because they think of the needs of it’s customers. Think about it, a sky TV from sky displaying sky interface in your living room. Why have they done this? It’s another step in them getting people to become reliant on their service. They don’t give away free tvs. I’m guessing you don’t keep the tv when the contact ends? Where does this leave you when you switch to let’s say free sat? It leaves you With no tv and to save hassle of getting a new tv just to switch to another provider, you don’t bother and keep paying sky as it’s less stressful. This company ain’t daft, they want to control its customers by getting them excited by having a new tv but then leave them trapped and reliant upon them to keep up with the subscriptions which inevitably go up and up. Don’t be fooled, stick with your q box and your OWN tv.
I would avoid this cos energy F is too high for electricity bill.. my Samsung 50" 4k uhd is AAA++ and use sky q uhd box with1tb hard drive that prefect...
Two of a few reasons I won't buy SKY GLASS is there's no ability to record things and the channel list is the exact same list on SKY GO which has a lot of channels missing.
They claim their solution for not having the ability to record is pure bull. When you miss a program you wanted to watch only a small percentage allow you to watch from the beginning and if there's two programs you wanted to watch at on at the same time your SOL.
I was going to get this but as soon as you mentioned adverts I’ve decided it’s a no for me, I have Q and a devialet sound bar so won’t bother and I am sure my Apple TV won’t work so well on this, thanks,for a good review showing all the issues that might be present
Go out and buy a pioneer Kuro with speakers, best sound you’ll ever hear from any tv.
Come on you don't need sky mean most people who NEED it use it for sports or movies
Cheapest way is a £300 nice LG TV and get Now tv up and running then add sports or add sky movies etc
Much cheaper
Hi mate good video and explains the options whether to upgrade from Sky Q to Sky Glass Thanks.
No problem 👍
I am just thinking if you have the TV and paid it off in full so you own it now but don't want sky anymore and want to use lets say virgin or freeview will the TV let you or if you cancel the sky will the TV just brick it self that is what i want to know. As having that all in one sometimes means you have what is in the TV and you cant use anything else. And will the TV even work still if you cancel Sky on other things like a game console or is it only for TV.
You say it doesn't need a satellite, yet the sky website says:
"Sky functionality requires two satellite feeds. You must get any consents required (e.g. landlord's)."
For someone that doesnt have or want a satellite feed due to me not paying for a TV licence, can I still use this TV and its smart features?
Yes it doesn’t need a satellite. Works over broadband
I can tell you the streaming quality is nowhere near as good, you only.have to look at the picture quality of the itv hub, it's completely second rate.... Most streaming services are not good quality, including the BBC.... Basically lowered and lower the quality over the years...
Is this his normal speaking voice? Over emphasizing every sentence. He couldnt read shakespear like that!
Send me a script. I’ll give it a go 😂
I’m interested but no good to me, I want a 32” tv as anything bigger I can’t have in my living room. So a customer lost there. Not everyone has rooms large enough to accommodate a very large screen tv.
Why yap constantly throughout the video..? I couldn't hear the music..!!!
People who are negative obviously got refused i have no problem with mine nothing u say mate is true my partner has sky q and says mine is cheaper and better ppppfffftttttt says a lot that dont ya think my only regret is not switching sooner
Thanks very much this has helped me make my mind up not to get it.
ITV hub adverts are the worse . They even put adverts over the top of live TV so I turned into ITV 1. Had 40 or so seconds of adverts then it joined the live feed which then went to an advert break lol.
I'm a celebrity sucks!! Trash TV 🗑️👎
I don’t think I’ll be investing in Sky glass. The box seems more for people who still watch old school traditional TV. I haven’t really dealt with ads in a long time as I use the likes of Netflix and UA-cam premium.
Now people are getting used to the format noone cares if it can record or not. However as a business, if there were demand for it I am sure a hard drive can be encorperated. Can you get a 3rd party storage device to conjectvto one of the hdmi ports
Funnily enough your presentation is like a sky news reporter 😅
interesting what you said but i'm going from q to glass because for 6 monthe of the year i can hardly get sky at all because of leaves on the trees.
Same here no chance I’ll be swapping, even if they give it me free.😂👍
I got the small box that I plug into another tv for free with free remote for another room I thing good idea they did that
I got skyglass on a firestick and its £65 every year but i get to watch new films and series that should be in the cinema
I have sky + I can’t have sky Q because we have a communal dish which serves all the apartments also if the dish goes down I have no sky.so I am looking into sky glass
Also think of it this way…. Sky are offering redundancies to all their engineers phasing the installation engineers out so how long will sky q be reliable and what will you do to fix issues? Instead they are employing broadband engineers. I’ve had nothing but problems with sky q boxes just breaking down and waiting 2 weeks for an engineer. How long will this wait be in a years time?
thank you, very informative, not got sky glass, only plus, looking into having glass, but on reading comments too maybe sky Q instead?
sky satelite dishes are a dying breed once full fibre broadband is up and running you will realise that this chap is talking rubbish
This is sky glass version 1.0 so all the extraslike "only 60hz" means nothing because if theres the demand they will build the future generations with the most in demand features. This video was from 4 months ago and most of these bugs are either fixed or will inform the design of the next version. You get your first puck for free when you take out whole home
Would Sky fit the sky glass on the wall if you was unable to do it yourself
I have a 4K TV and stream everything via Chromecast inc Twitch, Netflix, Prime Video, BBB IPlayer etc etc for under a tenner a month. Works like a dream, so Sky is far too expensive. No boxes, no dish, no wires plus inbuilt Freeview.
dude... for the most part this video is good... but the pricing is way off.
You chose a 2 channel 40w sound bar at £149 (although now £89) - sky glass has a 6 channel set up with up to 215w output with built in dolby atmos compatibility --- these are not on the same level... it would be like comparing the samsung a series smartphone speakers with iPhone 13 speakers
but it's interesting about the TV comparison.
I was looking at upgrading our second TV -- i just dont understand why sky couldnt add a harddrive or even an option to plug in a portable one - the fact the usb-c port is power only means there is no way around this. If your internet goes down you are screwed and limited to terrestrial TV, which not everyone gets a great signal the old fashion way, hence sky. They could easily have it so episodes can be downloaded (just like on sky q they download for better-uninterrupted watching) - it's a very strange move.
They could also have built this so it could be linked to a sky q box
I might look at the samsung tv instead now
Iv switched sky Q package gos up in March switching to sky glass saved me £30 a month for the same package.
all this sounds like alot of paying and stinking contracts…. i think i will stick to netflix amazon prime and youtube thanks
Broadband ultrafast plus on the other hand 🙏👌👌👌👌515mps
Nice 👍
Samuel Jones Tech, I’m glad I watched your review because I’d be fuming 😡 if I’d of swapped from sky Q, but I must say though I’ve been with sky for a long time now an in all the years never had a problem with either tv or broadband, so while it’s not for me like you said be great an more suited to others.👌👌👌👌
I do not see why the refresh rate of 60hz should be an issue for gamers? The human eye cannot tell the difference between 50hz or 60hz, so how can I tell the difference with a faster refresh rate? BlueRay DVD and some HD channel’s refresh at less than 30hz
There's a few reasons. It is definitely not as big an issue for most people though. I think VRR is more important and it reducing things like screen tearing etc. but for 90% of people 60HZ will be fine.
Just waiting to have Sky Glass taken away.
The picture is vague and washed out, we have the 65in tv and it’s really poor.
Compared with the LG 55in we had attached to the old Sky +HD box….the picture is not just rubbish.
The sound a good. That’s not an issue.
The playlist stuff is rubbish. Having to log in to ITV hub and BBC iPlayer etc is a pain, you then inherit all the adverts that come and it’s a pain.
So we’ve gone for Sky Q and are plugging the LG back in.
Honestly the premise is okay, it is what will happen and how we are going forward…..but this isn’t up to snuff yet. Maybe in three to four years.
Fair points all round
So glad I got rid of sky completely.
It's rubbish and will die out
what about if you already have sty Q and need sky glass as a second tv for the bedroom? does it link with the sky q box?
You compared sky glass with Dolby atoms with a sound bar without Dolby atmos
True. I also forgot to mention your subscription costs more if you want to use the Dolby Atmos :O
@@ItsSamuelJones but you can use Dolby atmos from devices plugged into the hdmi ports, Apple TV etc
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Same as I won't touching this TV. I personally have got Samsung Q95T Denon x3700h amp dolby atmos. This would definitely be down grade.
I bought the 55inch and hate it news programmes i like not there, Fi set on playback not recorded apparently I dont pay for HD when all there channels are HD. I want to send it back Any Idea's. ?
I’ve heard that a lot of people have sent it back
It's good enough for non-audiophiles TBH. Lack of wires and I can take the dish off the wall.
Also, think about negative comments about the picture and sound standards. Its not fair to compare sky glass to a £10000 hoke cinema setup. You'd be connecting a puck to your home cinema equipment so you can have your cake and eat it.
You can compare it to a TV of similar price though. And in a lot of cases you can get more for your money. Sky glass works best as people can incorporate the cost into their plan which makes it affordable.
Sky using the Mercedes business model of paying for extras.