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Post by danb on Feb 22, 2022 22:22:16 GMT
Has anyone taken the leap and switched to one of these swanky sky already inside wi-fi telly’s? The sound is amazing without a sound bar which is my biggest criticism of most modern tvs? Should I make the leap?
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Post by PhantomNcl on Feb 22, 2022 22:35:13 GMT
I'd be interested to hear any feedback - I've been considering getting one for a while now but just can't decide!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 22, 2022 22:59:39 GMT
Made by the Chinese company who makes Philips TV’s if that reassures, or otherwise. I was just reading the other day about the direction TV’s are going in. Article said that integrated great quality sound will be a big thing this year, with no longer a need to have sound bars. The rest of it was a load of old guff about QLED and OLED pixels which I didn’t understand. So if it’s intergrated sound you’re after you may not need to go with Sky if you’re prepared to hold on for a bit. ETA found it in my browser history www.t3.com/features/tv-trends |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2022 11:10:32 GMT
Article said that integrated great quality sound will be a big thing this year, with no longer a need to have sound bars. In other words, the way TVs used to be before the manufacturers declared that the public wanted paper-thin borderless TVs with no room for decent speakers. "So what if it sounds like a 1950s telephone. It has an 8K display. Do you know what Ks are? Well it's got 8 of them."
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Post by olliebean on Feb 23, 2022 11:36:12 GMT
TBH, I'd sooner spend less on the telly and use the saving to buy a decent soundbar, which I can keep when I spend less on my next telly.
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Post by n1david on Feb 23, 2022 12:06:27 GMT
The main downside of Sky Glass appears to be that it doesn't do "recording" off-air in the way that most boxes like Sky, Freeview or Virgin boxes do - it relies on the underlying catch-up services. So you're limited to what's available on there and the rules about retention. So, for example, if you "bookmark" something like Anything Goes shown at Christmas, when it expires from iPlayer, it's gone from your box. There's no way to say "I want to record what's on BBC2 at this time and keep the recording forever". This will probably become less of an issue as catch-up services evolve and things become available for longer (e.g. most BBC dramas now have at least a year's availability rather than the 1-week limit when iPlayer launched), but at the moment this seems like quite a significant drawback. Also if you want to see something on a service that doesn't have a catch-up, you have no way to record that, you have to watch it off-air. More details in this review here: www.theguardian.com/media/2021/nov/22/sky-glass-review-streaming-tv-not-quite-ready-for-prime-time |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 23, 2022 12:34:11 GMT
Has anyone taken the leap and switched to one of these swanky sky already inside wi-fi telly’s? The sound is amazing without a sound bar which is my biggest criticism of most modern tvs? Should I make the leap? Does Rupert Murdoch own Sky Glass? That's the answer |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Feb 23, 2022 13:27:15 GMT
Sky is owned by Comcast, was sold a few years ago.
With TV’s best to go with the best screens, everything else that Sky Glass offers can be done better externally, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Roku… and sound bars will always sound better than any TV speakers which are inhibited by the space available.
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Post by n1david on Feb 23, 2022 13:34:35 GMT
Does Rupert Murdoch own Sky Glass? That's the answer Rupert Murdoch has owned 0% of Sky since 2018. |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 23, 2022 15:27:45 GMT
Does Rupert Murdoch own Sky Glass? That's the answer Rupert Murdoch has owned 0% of Sky since 2018. Phew!! You can get one |
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Post by mkb on Feb 24, 2022 0:08:49 GMT
I don't really understand why tv screens include sound reproduction. Does anyone who cares about sound quality ever turn on tv speakers?
If you want good quality sound, you wont be using sound bars either. Aside from any subwoofers, all the speakers, both behind the screen and around the room, should be identical full-range ones, ideally driven from an independent high-quality amp.
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Post by Phantom of London on Feb 24, 2022 1:38:13 GMT
Jeeps just goggled Comcast and exasperated that another American soulless corporation owns a British company along with other platforms Apple TV,, Netflix & Amazon, does this country not own anything anymore?
We seem to make nothing or own nothing anymore?
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Post by NeilVHughes on Feb 24, 2022 6:30:14 GMT
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