Sky TV on Xbox

Noel Gallagher · 5 Oct 2009 at 01:25

Ripoff. I'd rather watch my Virgin cable TV, which is conviently placed next to my Xbox 360

Slinky1989 · 5 Oct 2009 at 01:34

So as my parents have sky tv, will this work if I use thier log in/pin in my flat then?

Eliot · 5 Oct 2009 at 01:44

awesome. i will make use of this as my house has sky multiroom but my room has no access to tv/freeview

antijoke · 5 Oct 2009 at 09:07

"slinky" said:
So as my parents have sky tv, will this work if I use thier log in/pin in my flat then?

This really.

Can anyone answer this?

PiKe · 5 Oct 2009 at 09:16

Only if they already have a multiroom sub.

mcwildcard · 5 Oct 2009 at 09:23

I was considering getting an xbox for this, but I'm not forking out for a gold sub, so I guess I'll stick to watching sky on my pc.

PiKe · 5 Oct 2009 at 09:24

mcwildcard said:
I was considering getting an xbox for this, but I'm not forking out for a gold sub, so I guess I'll stick to watching sky on my pc.

Oh no, not £30 A YEAR.

steveo · 5 Oct 2009 at 09:31

PiKe said:
Oh no, not £30 A YEAR.

less if you no were to look, which works out to pennys per day

i have spent more than double that on a night out on booze

mcwildcard · 5 Oct 2009 at 09:41

PiKe said:
Oh no, not £30 A YEAR.

Just so I can watch football every couple of weeks? Nah.
I was considering it because it'd be more convenient than firing up my pc and logging onto sky player, which I was willing to do for a one off cost, but adding a £30 per year charge on top or that makes it a non starter.
I don't quite see why a gold sub should be needed tbh, unless they're using their own servers instead of sky's?

agnes · 5 Oct 2009 at 09:42

Hmmm, we have sky in the house, so can use that, and as for the viewing, is it full screen with similar controls as the sky box (as in the menu) or is it just a window like in the pic from a party watching footie...

Will have to either see a demo on this or I won't even think about buying it. Just far to unclear on details as it stands.

ags

utajoker · 5 Oct 2009 at 10:38

hmm so as i understand it, i have sky with multi room and the sport channels, so i can watch sky sports with no extra cost because im already a subcribe to sky?

Burned_Alive · 5 Oct 2009 at 11:06

So basically, this is completely useless if you dont already have sky because for the same cost you might as well have a sky box.

PiKe · 5 Oct 2009 at 11:09

Burned_Alive said:
So basically, this is completely useless if you dont already have sky because for the same cost you might as well have a sky box.

Unless you can't put a dish up.

ic1male · 5 Oct 2009 at 11:09

Burned_Alive said:
So basically, this is completely useless if you dont already have sky because for the same cost you might as well have a sky box.

Yes, all you're saving is the cost of a dish and installation but that is free as each region goes through digital switchover due to a special offer from Sky!

Burned_Alive · 5 Oct 2009 at 11:23

I can only presume that the amount of money they might make by providing sports, etc without a subscription is not great enough to outweigh the possible loss of revenue from reduced subscriptions. A shame, because I'd gladly sign up for a Sky Sports sub on my xbox, but I'm not paying for all the other channels.

waso_dude · 5 Oct 2009 at 11:26

Really really tempted to get a 360 for this,

But its going to rely 100% on your net connection for the TV.. not a good thing.

Frapple · 5 Oct 2009 at 14:22

It's only SD so any old 2mb+ line will do.

iPlayer "High Quality" doesn't even stress most lines.

Kappa · 5 Oct 2009 at 19:00

This will be great, I have multiroom HD in my room as it is, but my bro can use it on his xbox now and watch sky in his room.

Kyle009 · 5 Oct 2009 at 20:03

Can't wait for this, use it all the time at the minute and it's fantastic.

Being able to use it through the Xbox is even better

msmalls74 · 5 Oct 2009 at 20:06

I thought by the sound of it you dont get full access to Sky only 22 channels of live TV, 6 of which are Sports/movie channels that you have to pay extra for. The pay on demand stuff looks good but i dont know the price of say an episode or a series, but as i get them for free for VM it doesnt interest me. Would rather it be a full Sky service with viewing on demand or live, bit like BT vision or Tiscalli, but if you have neither VM or able to have a sky dish it seems a pretty reasonable solution.