Boro

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Has anyone tried this yet?

Just wondered how it worked.

boxst

This is what I wrote on another thread in NSR (about the PS3 iPlayer):

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The Sky Player has been released today and I've managed to play with it for a few minutes (between network overloads and crashes ).

If you subscribe to Sky (I do) then the on-demand stuff is free (movies) but you need the Sky Multi-room (which I don't have) to access the live channels. The quality of the streamed movies seems good (again in the 2 minutes before it crashed) and the whole thing is a good idea when they sort out the teething problems.

I'd still like the iPlayer though ...

Steve

Boro

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Whats the on demand about?

boxst

You flip through a selection of movies, choose the one you want and it plays. Pretty cool when it works. I'm sure it'll get better but I haven't been able to play since this morning.

Steve

chrisowe

I can't find it anywhere on the dash. Where do you get it from?

chrisowe

Looks like its been pulled. They are relaunching it tomorrow.

mart360

Indeed pulled...

Noe the question is, did the luck few who got it today have to register with sky?

I registered thinking it would allow the download, ..no such luck

(i see sky have some interesting t's&c's regarding this app)

lets see if its there tomorrow..

Mart

boxst

I am already registered with Sky so just had to log in.

Having said that, the application disapeared so I guess they completely pulled it until tomorrow (well, later today).

Steve

chrisowe

Is it working now? Can't try because I'm at work.

Coffin Dodger

Is this ever likely to be much cop over ADSL? As most houses struggle to get over 2MBs unless you're lucky enough to be on an unbundled exchange and even then it's hit and miss. If you're on cable presumably you'll also have TV from them so get all the Sky channels etc.

boxst

Mine still hasn't reappeared. Apparently the release is being staggered so it will appear sometime this evening or tomorrow. Yours may be there now!

It is okay over ADSL -- I expect that the ISPs wont be very happy if people use it a lot.

Steve

Graz

They might be if they charge you for going over your usage limit

Shaun

It looks like it is now up.... my xbox is going mental with updates!

chrisowe

I've downloaded the application but I can't sign in, I just get an error message.

Ray T

just getting sorry for the delay screen!! ah well that's technology

chrisowe

I've got it working, but the only thing I seem to be able to watch is Sky News, most of the other stuff I have to pay 98p for, which is a con as its already been broadcast.

boxst

Mine still wont download. Sigh.

Chris: Are you a sky subscriber? If you subscribe to movies you will be able to watch those on demand. If you have multiroom you will be able to stream and watch things that have been transmitted in the last 30 days for free.

(again, I still want the iPlayer )

Steve

chrisowe

I've got all the channels bar the movies and sports and no multiroom. It's a free Sky movies weekend this weekend but it won't let you stream them.

boxst

This is finally up and running properly and I have to say I'm quite impressed. They seem to have sorted out the performance issues and I can select all the movies to play plus some on demand Sky 1 stuff.

I'm not really interested in the live streaming as the Xbox is connected to the same television as Sky.

The quality is better than DivX.

Steve

WhatswiththeR

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i'm with virgin media, and have got sky movies and sky sports and have to pay extra for these i was just wondering would sky (sky player) recongnise this as a subscribtion so i would be able to get on demand and live tv or would i have to create a sky account?

Iain Young

You have to have a sky account (the app contacts the sky website to determine what channels etc you have payed for). Not sure that it will work through Virgin.

+Doc+

The sample of Football looked shockingly bad quality, whats all that about?

Boro

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Eventually got round to trying this tonight. Got my SkyID and password sorted but the download speed was horrendous and it timed out everytime it tried to buffer. Will try again tomorrow.

Anyone using this regularly?

boxst

I use the movies occasionally -- it doesn't buffer and the quality is good.

Steve