First have to say I would never entertain such extravagance of paying for Satellite tv myself. Too much of a temptation to vegetate in from of the 1,000s of channels - even though I often find there's still nothing worth watching on them. Been staying at my brother's for a few days of cat sitting and using his new Sky Glass tv which seems very clunky and user unfriendly. His original Sky box was much easier and quicker to use. What I've found -
Like going back to The 70s, sometimes the tv takes up to three minutes to warm up with the little buffering circle being displayed while it does it's thing. Have to make sure you start up early so as not to miss beginning of programme. Suppose that's the downside of being an internet, not dish, based system.
None of the Sky channel numbers in the Daily Mail, etc tv guide match the Glass's channel numbers any more. So if I see a programme in a tv guide, punching the channel number quoted in the guide either gets you a completely different channel or nothing at all. Have to manually scroll through the Glass guide to find the channel. All the plus one hour channels have gone too, so if you want to watch something just after it was originally on, you have to sift through menus, etc and try and find it on catchup somewhere.
No easy access to the Glass's tv guide. On the old Sky box remote there was a button that took you straight to the tv guide listings. Now it's press the little house symbol 'home' page, scroll down to 'TV LISTINGS', press right a bit, scroll down a bit more, press right again, then down again - or something similar. Just to get something essential that's used a lot.
Keeps switching itself off if you don't touch the remote for an hour. A right pain if you're watching something lengthy like a film and it suddenly switches off because you were too slow to see the brief warning.
Suppose this is to keep the tree huggers happy.
No facility to record anything. Would it have been too much to include some memory - I'm guessing the tv wasn't cheap to buy.
Way too bright. Had to turn the brightness from 50 down to 10 as the glare was hurting my eyes.
The thing is huge and bulky. Imagine it must take two to lift safely. It's not very energy efficient either.
There are other lesser annoyances with it. Am I doing anything wrong, or are these things really that bad and designed to be difficult to use when all you want to do is relax? Maybe I don't understand the thing.
Like going back to The 70s, sometimes the tv takes up to three minutes to warm up with the little buffering circle being displayed while it does it's thing. Have to make sure you start up early so as not to miss beginning of programme. Suppose that's the downside of being an internet, not dish, based system.
None of the Sky channel numbers in the Daily Mail, etc tv guide match the Glass's channel numbers any more. So if I see a programme in a tv guide, punching the channel number quoted in the guide either gets you a completely different channel or nothing at all. Have to manually scroll through the Glass guide to find the channel. All the plus one hour channels have gone too, so if you want to watch something just after it was originally on, you have to sift through menus, etc and try and find it on catchup somewhere.
No easy access to the Glass's tv guide. On the old Sky box remote there was a button that took you straight to the tv guide listings. Now it's press the little house symbol 'home' page, scroll down to 'TV LISTINGS', press right a bit, scroll down a bit more, press right again, then down again - or something similar. Just to get something essential that's used a lot.
Keeps switching itself off if you don't touch the remote for an hour. A right pain if you're watching something lengthy like a film and it suddenly switches off because you were too slow to see the brief warning.
Suppose this is to keep the tree huggers happy.No facility to record anything. Would it have been too much to include some memory - I'm guessing the tv wasn't cheap to buy.
Way too bright. Had to turn the brightness from 50 down to 10 as the glare was hurting my eyes.
The thing is huge and bulky. Imagine it must take two to lift safely. It's not very energy efficient either.
There are other lesser annoyances with it. Am I doing anything wrong, or are these things really that bad and designed to be difficult to use when all you want to do is relax? Maybe I don't understand the thing.
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