Sky Go

Itchytrigg · 1 Nov 2016 at 21:21

Quick rant as I want to watch westworld whilst my wife is on the TV....will not work in Chrome, will not work in Edge, must be IE11....sigh...fine....I'm then forced to watch 2 minutes of ads which I can't skip or even pause (only tried as I hoped it would buffer the show whilst I went to the toilet).

This is 2016 right? I've not been bundled into a DeLorean and taken back to 2010?

Edit: And appears to be 720p? Fudge this!

Itchytrigg · 2 Nov 2016 at 13:56

I did say it was a rant

Just my first experience trying to use and was quite shocked at it's usability and quality.

Itchytrigg · 2 Nov 2016 at 17:15

HEADRAT said:
I think you'll find most VOD systems now "force" you to watch the adds, you can't skip through.

It is annoying but I guess this is the way these businesses partly fund these "free/value add" online services.

HEADRAT

Perhaps, my experience to date is Amazon prime and Netflix where I do not recall adverts. The quality is higher too, reading up more it would appear Sky Go is actually 480p.

I guess it is to entice you into spending that extra £5 a month to upgrade to extra.

Itchytrigg · 2 Nov 2016 at 21:43

How weird about netflix being 720p, shall have to try on edge to see the difference.

Sky Go however was terrible quality when watching westworld, maybe it was still buffering even though I have a 80meg line? To be honest, your screen show doesn't look 720p to me (and I can't name that show). Here's a grab I just took on chrome;

Itchytrigg · 2 Nov 2016 at 23:08

Win 10 Chrome browser. From what I saw you are right that I should be getting 720 with Netflix in Chrome.

Trying to get a screenshot from edge but they have some witchcraft at play preventing it (shows a blackscreen). To my un-trained eye I'm not seeing a difference, but it looks good.