Sky revealed so much about Glass on-stage… however here is 5 issues that it did not point out (Picture: SKY • GETTY)
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In the event you missed the announcement final 12 months, Sky has designed its personal 4K TV with the whole lot wanted to tune into its reside channels, unique films, sports activities fixtures and on-demand boxsets. Dubbed Sky Glass, this QLED panel not solely has a Sky Q field built-in, however it additionally has a Dolby Atmos-certified sound system and a far-field microphone array for handsfree voice controls.
Sky Glass additionally ditches the requirement for a satellite tv for pc dish. For the primary time, Sky subscribers will be capable to get pleasure from the identical expertise as Sky Q – together with the power to pause and rewind reside tv – with solely a Wi-Fi connection. As a substitute of a spaghetti-like tangle of cables for HDMI inputs, soundbars, and satellite tv for pc dishes …you will solely want a single cable into your Sky Glass: the facility cable. That is it.
The custom-designed tv shall be accessible to UK clients from October 18, with extra nations set to be added within the new 12 months.
Throughout the keynote presentation, Sky CEO Dana Robust and her staff revealed a number of the most enjoyable options within the firm’s first telly …however they did not reveal the whole lot. Now that the mud has settled, Categorical.co.uk has bought the total particulars on Sky Glass, together with 5 particulars you did not hear from the presentation.
1/ Sky Glass was designed by Sonos veterans
When it got here to designing its first foray into Good TVs, Sky turned to East London-based industrial design agency Map Undertaking Workplace. Whereas the identify may not be acquainted, you will have undoubtedly come throughout a few of their earlier work. Map Undertaking Workplace has collaborated with corporations together with Sony, Google, and Transport for London – designing the interiors for the brand new Elizabeth Line tubes as a part of the Crossrail undertaking.
Map Undertaking Workplace has additionally labored with good audio model Sonos, designing the Sonos Amp, which lets you join the whole lot – from a turntable and stereo – to your wi-fi Sonos speaker system. The London studio was additionally put accountable for creating the packaging expertise.
Sky did not embrace its brand on the entrance of the TV in order that it may higher mix into furnishings (Picture: SKY )
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2/ Sky Glass is aware of while you’re within the room
Sky has developed a brand new system referred to as Look Movement Expertise, which robotically wakes the display when it detects a presence within the room. So, in the event you flop down onto the couch after an extended day, Sky Glass will robotically wake-up the display and start biking by means of a carousel of beneficial reveals and flicks.
Every suggestion contains the title, channel, and beautiful fullscreen art work. Solutions shall be based mostly in your viewing historical past and shall be tailor-made to your telly bundle, so you will not see a load of Premier League video games beneficial in the event you do not pay for Sky Sports activities. In the event you spot one thing you want, you may pick-up the distant and instantly leap into the itemizing for the boxset, blockbuster or sport fixture advised on-screen.
Sky refreshes its suggestions six instances a day and tailors the solutions based mostly on the time of day. So, households can anticipate to see extra youngsters’s reveals beneficial within the morning, with blood-thirsty horror movies relegated to the top of the day when youthful viewers are in mattress.
Cannot discover the distant? Don’t be concerned – Sky Glass robotically activates while you stroll into the room (Picture: SKY )
3/ Sky Glass is aware of what’s linked to your telly
It may be robust to recollect what units are plugged into every HDMI port in the back of your tv. Juggling between inputs till you discover what you are searching for is an on a regular basis a part of the ritual of watching tv. Nonetheless, Sky Glass needs to resolve that headache.
The 4K QLED TV has three HDMI 2.1 ports on the again of the set, which can be utilized to attach video games consoles, Blu-ray gamers, and extra. The engineers at Sky have ensured that Sky Glass can recognise these inputs – so you may request them utilizing solely a voice command. So, saying “PlayStation” or “Xbox” will swap to the right HDMI enter with out you ever having to recall which one that’s.
Glass remains to be a tv – so you may join Blu-ray gamers and consoles by way of 3 HDMI ports (Picture: SKY )
4/ You’ll be able to’t file reveals with Sky Glass
Since Sky+ launched in 2001, we have all develop into accustomed to recording our favorite reveals and flicks to observe at a later time. Sky Q is offered with both a alternative of both 1TB or 2TB hard-drive to retailer all your boxsets, films and sport fixtures. The latter can retailer round 350 hours of Excessive Definition recordings.
With Sky Glass, that each one modifications. Whereas there’s a small quantity of reminiscence inside Sky Glass, it is not used to back-up limitless episodes of your favorite present. The truth is, there is not even a File button on the distant management. As a substitute, Sky Glass viewers will add the whole lot they need to watch at a later date onto their Playlist. When it comes time to observe an episode, film or match… Sky will stream the present from its servers over the web. Meaning you will by no means have to fret about deleting your favorite movie to make room for a brand new sequence.
The redesigned Sky Glass distant management does not have the enduring File button (Picture: SKY )
It additionally signifies that, not like with Sky Q, multi-room units round the home will not hook up with the primary set-top field. As a substitute, they hook up with Wi-Fi and stream episodes from the identical servers. Likewise with Sky Go, you will not must obtain the recordings saved on the hard-drive in your Sky Q field onto an iPad earlier than you may take them with you …they will be accessible from the identical catalogue within the cloud. That is a lot nearer to what we have seen from the likes of Netflix and Prime Video.
Not like Sequence Hyperlink, which robotically information all new episodes of a present after they air, including one thing to your Sky Glass Playlist will look again in time too. So, in the event you resolve so as to add Determined Housewives to your telly, Sky will robotically file new episodes – identical to with Sequence Hyperlink on Sky Q and Sky+ HD – however can even scour its on-demand catalogue in addition to any streaming service that you just pay for to convey collectively all episodes. You’ll be able to then watch earlier seasons from providers like Disney+, and Prime Video… earlier than switching to newer episodes on Sky seamlessly.
Sky Glass is offered in 5 colors, with new faceplate colors set to launch quickly (Picture: SKY )
5/ Sky Glass sounds completely different at night time
Sky has borrowed a intelligent function from its Sky Soundbox, which was an all-in-one sound system co-engineered with high-end French audio model Devialet, for the built-in audio system in Sky Glass. Dubbed Night time Mode, this elective function is designed to assist late-night film followers. Whereas it is tempting to crank-up the amount to listen to the dialogue – a sudden explosion or rattle of gunfire on-screen could be loud sufficient to wake-up youthful members of the family who’re sleeping upstairs. To resolve this, Night time Mode robotically boosts dialogue, particularly if characters are whispering or the motion on-screen could be very quiet, and drops the bass and sound when folks begin shouting, automobile engines are screaming, and the motion movie kicks into one other gear.
That is not the one night-time function baked into Sky Glass. In the event you resolve to put this all-in-one telly in your bed room, you is perhaps questioning how the Look Movement Expertise described above will work. Turning over in your sleep solely to have the 55-inch QLED display change on and advocate the subsequent episode of Succession does not sound like a method for a successful nights’ kip. Fortunately, the staff that developed Sky Glass have considered that.
Out of the field, Sky Glass robotically disables its Look Movement Expertise between 10.30pm and 6am. In fact, in the event you want a lie-in, you may disable the function completely within the settings menu.
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