Sky Player on Xbox live

Blobson · 3 May 2011 at 18:26

I have Sky HD but I've never really bothered to watch the anytime stuff online because I did't think much of the picture. However I was bored the other morning & was playing with the sky player on xbox live & I have to say the picture quality is pretty decent considering it's being streamed. If anyone else here was the same as me being a bit snobby about the image quality, it's definitely worth having a look you might be as surprised as me! Plus there's actually loads on there to watch!
Enjoy

Andybtsn · 3 May 2011 at 18:33

It's decent, some football coverage is really bad quality though and it's impossible to change the quality which is annoying.

RageQuit© · 3 May 2011 at 19:08

:/ but you can, there are three quality settings last time I saw, low, medium and high

Andybtsn · 3 May 2011 at 19:13

RageQuit© said:
:/ but you can, there are three quality settings last time I saw, low, medium and high

Yep there is, but unfortunately some channels restrict you from change it.

:/

K1LLSW1TCH · 3 May 2011 at 19:55

Yes, sometimes it's stuck on "auto". Still I really like it and because I don't have a Sky+ box in this room I couldn't live without it.

Anksy · 3 May 2011 at 20:11

i love it, loads of clips and shows, i think ive been through every boxing fight all the soccer am clips and everything

kinda poor quality (suits me), but a very good database.

Mr Men · 3 May 2011 at 21:26

Andybtsn said:
Yep there is, but unfortunately some channels restrict you from change it.

:/

Auto works well for me normally but in the evening with BT it can be a bit slow and drop the quality down, more an ISP issue than Sky, the auto feature is really good IMO and does prevent buffering, I just watch it in the party room setup if the quality is dropping.

andshrew · 3 May 2011 at 21:29

It's pretty good but when I first ran it it mentioned that if I want to watch live TV I would need a multiroom subscription on the Sky account which I don't have... however it still seems to let me watch live TV through it when I've tried (both Sky News and Sky Sports) so no idea what's going on there.

Mr Men · 3 May 2011 at 21:31

think it is free now on Xbox and no need for multiroom

Alty · 6 May 2011 at 10:17

I know this has probably been asked before but.... can I enter my parent's sky account details and use the sky player at my own place since they dont have or will ever have a 360? I realise that I wont have access to everything and just the on-demand stuff - what does that consist of?

Abooie · 6 May 2011 at 11:29

Alty said:
I know this has probably been asked before but.... can I enter my parent's sky account details and use the sky player at my own place since they dont have or will ever have a 360? I realise that I wont have access to everything and just the on-demand stuff - what does that consist of?

Yes.

You'll have access to the ondemand stuff your parents subscribe to. So if they have movies etc. you'll have 100+ movies available to stream.

Mr Men · 6 May 2011 at 11:36

Alty said:
I know this has probably been asked before but.... can I enter my parent's sky account details and use the sky player at my own place since they dont have or will ever have a 360? I realise that I wont have access to everything and just the on-demand stuff - what does that consist of?

Yes you can, what you get access to depends on what packages they have, if they have sports then you can watch live sports same for movies etc it's not just an on-demand service you can watch live tv.

Alty · 6 May 2011 at 12:00

I thought it was only live if you had sky BB and had sky multiroom...

ShortWarning · 6 May 2011 at 16:31

I've only just discovered this as well.
To be honest, the quality is pretty good. The only annoying thing is you can't really fast forward or rewind without it buffering for an age.

RedStarRiot · 6 May 2011 at 17:10

Ardmanz said:
I've only just discovered this as well.
To be honest, the quality is pretty good. The only annoying thing is you can't really fast forward or rewind without it buffering for an age.

isnt that down to your internet connection though?

ShortWarning · 6 May 2011 at 21:57

Yea, probably.

Phil99 · 6 May 2011 at 22:44

Alty said:
I know this has probably been asked before but.... can I enter my parent's sky account details and use the sky player at my own place since they dont have or will ever have a 360? I realise that I wont have access to everything and just the on-demand stuff - what does that consist of?

Yes. You should have access to all the on-demand and live streaming of the channel packs that they subscribe to (that are available on Sky Player as well, the live channels are fairly limited in number).

If they don't have a multiroom subscription the live streaming will only work for a few more weeks, I think the live channels on Sky Player should work for all Sky customers at the moment, but only on a trial basis until (IIRC) the end of this month.

Joey1988 · 6 May 2011 at 23:30

I have used 30 days of it on an account my mate let me use, I was really impressed with it. I watched some football games and a UFC event and I couldn't fault the quality...no buffering either.

K1LLSW1TCH · 7 May 2011 at 02:02

Yep the auto quality setting does a good job of avoiding buffering. I'm only on 5MB and the picture quality when watching live TV is usually constantly on high with no buffering at all. I love the on demand stuff as well, there's quite a lot to choose from and the quality of the playback is great. I've never tried inviting people into a party and watching a show together, though I imagine it'd be pretty cool.

The only problem I have with Sky Player is the only being allowed to add one device per month. I reformatted my laptop and when I logged into Sky Player it told me my computer wasn't registered, and that I couldn't register it for another month, which is totally lame. If you can only have 5 devices maximum then what difference does it make. Oh, and sometimes programmes don't seem to be updated for a while. I waited 4 or 5 days for the newest episode of Blue Bloods to be put into the on demand section, and when it was finally updated it removed all the previous episodes which was a bit pants.