To think Sky will make us do away with our sky boxes and dishes soon?

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They way Sky is going they seem to be promoting Sky without the need for a dish.

The new way seems to be streaming with an Internet connection rather than a dish?

Does it mean that those of us who are still getting sky through the dish and the box will have to change over if our box breaks?
Does anyone know will they replace the current box if it breaks or will you need to change over then and use your Wifi?

This means anyone who hasnt got Wifi at home will need to get it wheraas at the moment you can still watch with a dish and box and no wifi connection?🙄

For now they are alternatives, but at some point the satellites will come to the end of their lives and they won't be replaced. Plenty of homes can't have satellite, whereas the numbers that can't get broadband in a few years should be negligible

I'd be quite happy to do that, providing it doesn't cost extra. The high winds last winter broke my dish and it took them 3 weeks to come and fix it, an issue I'd like to avoid happening again.

Can you get Sky via the internet without one of their Glass TV's? I've not kept up with it but if you can then yes, that is the direction they are going in.

A friend has Sky Glass and even though it's streamed I was impressed with how responsive changing channels was and how good the picture was.

We don't have sky, but that's because we don't want a dish on the front of our house.
I'd be all for a non-dish/wifi version, but DH is reluctant to buy sky with the current increases in all the bloody household bills.

I also remember my dad losing the picture during a v important game of footy when it rained heavily...🤔
I wouldn't be paying for that kind of service tbh.

I had to get a sky repair man out recently and asked about sky glass. He said it wouldn't be any good for me as it needs very high speed wifi and mine wouldn't be good enough. So unless you have ultra high speed fibre it's the dish and box!

Well it's how Now TV works and you get most of the channels and Movies depending on the package. You just need a dongle thing that plugs into the USB port of any relatively modern TV (ours has to be at least 10 years old and has one) and costs about a tenner.

Although they'd have to make Sky much cheaper as it used to cost a lot more than what Now TV does - about a tenner a month for Sky One, Atlantic etc or the same again for movies. Plus you can pay month to month without a contract and there's loads of deals. We've had Now for years and usually pay less than half the full price.

So if the box breaks etc you can have it replaced at the moment?

Isn't Now TV quite limited when it comes to picture quality? Last time we looked at it the image was 720P which isn't even full HD let alone 4K.

No idea, looks fine to me, but HD/4k isn't something I'm interested in.

I can enjoy TV perfectly well without seeing someone's fine lines and wrinkles in extreme detail.

Yes. I had mine replaced a couple of weeks ago. Sky HD - not even a Sky Q box.

Yes. Sky have introduced Glass as an option for people who don't want dishes. It's not to replace them (my friend was part of the team working on Glass)

There's a tiny amount of their customer base has it at present & dishes are still their default product

They have targets of how many customers they hope to have on Glass in the coming years but the projected figures are still a drop in the ocean compared to the customers they have

Dishes & boxes will be around for a very long time

I need a harddrive for saving my programmes.

Why do you need to save them if you can just stream them?

We have sky glass and love it. Our house is listed so we couldn't easily have a dish and virgin kept hiking their prices up so we switched. We couldn't get sky Wi-Fi but it still work perfectly

@BarbaraofSeville When I watch catchup
it downloads to the Qbox as I watch

thats good, i wonder how long that will last that they give a box?

Yes, we cannot have a dish as we live in a listed building so we have got "Sky Stream". It's just a little plug-in box and we get Netflix with it also

Had several long outages of sky Wi-Fi in my area over the last couple of days but tv worked ok. With no Wi-Fi I’d have had no tv

if my box breaks I’ve got sky go on my telly on Wi-Fi to keep me going

i've got two classic ER episodes (see other thread, mine are Carter and Lucy) saved on my box. CBS drama don’t have the licence for these anymore so I’d lose these recordings

these are the reasons I won’t switch to sky glass

Surely you could just get another box off of ebay/freecycle?

Im pretty sure Sky own Now Tv so its not in their interest to make everyone go down their cheaper route

Off topic but I think all of ER is available on All4 now!

We’ve just moved house and we investigated Sky Glass but apparently you can’t actually record, pause or rewind live TV, everything is streamed, and the Sky Q function is one of the things I like so we stuck with a dish

@Merchantadventurer yes I know thanks, I'm desperately trying to resist the urge to rewatch them again

@MabelMoo23 really? pausing to go for a wee and starting to watch a programme 20 mins in to fast forward to avoid the adverts is surely the main point of Sky?

I wonder how many people have actually subscribed?

Personally I’d be happy if this were the case as I can’t stand the sight of dishes.