Sky On-Demand (formerly Anytime) [Merged]

photofinish · 17-01-2014 8:27pm

fatherted1969 wrote: »

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I have a phone line running to the back of it. Would that be it. I'm not completely savvy with this

No a phone line wont do it you need a broadband connection either wired or wireless.

ftakeith · 18-01-2014 12:50am

glimmerman123 wrote: »

The 3 player has now gone live on catch up.

tv3 player has nothing to watch, its terrible, rte player has better content

icdg · 19-01-2014 11:57am

channelsurfer2 wrote: »

I always wondered about the bbc rights issue thing. surely nearly all the programming on iplayer is BBC originated thus no need to clear rights with anyone for Ireland except themselves?

That's not the reason in the BBC's case, the issue is that the BBC cannot spend licence fee payers money making programmes available outside the UK and this task is specifically in BBC Worldwide's remit.

Worldwide meanwhile are pushing the international iPlayer, which is less a catchup TV service and more an archive VOD service.

On UPC's on-demand there is no BBC iPlayer, though there is a selection of archive BBC programmes which changes from time to time.

Racket · 12-03-2014 9:27am

4oD in the Catch Up section now has HD content from all the channels. Channel 4 HD shows clear in Ireland, at least for now with the one show I tried.

ftakeith · 12-03-2014 9:59pm

ftakeith wrote: »

tv3 player has nothing to watch, its terrible, rte player has better content

family guy and american dad are available on tv3 player

fat-tony · 12-03-2014 10:17pm

ftakeith wrote: »

family guy and american dad are available on tv3 player

@ftakeith - I think your quote is a bit fecked up or else you are debating with yourself:p

epo addict · 13-03-2014 9:28pm

anyone else notice all new releases in the sky store have increased by €1. To watch a new release in HD will also cost a €1

whitebriar · 14-03-2014 4:22pm

The sky plus app for iPad/ Android is pretty cool when used in conjunction with this.
Full remote control over WiFi,far better than the magic eye.
Just swiping up and down the screen to change channel.Full access to your planner,the ability to do everything the remote does without needing to point.
Full programme info when browsing on demand stuff with pictures etc

Any news on the Rte player?

billbond4 · 19-03-2014 12:00am

Let's hope the big overhaul to the epg starting today doesn't effect card trick

thesultan · 16-05-2014 6:21pm

on the new sky on demand , do you have have a hd subscription to work it?

thesultan · 16-05-2014 6:32pm

I have the connecter midi but with the new lay out it doesn't seem to work. How do I set it up.

muffler · 16-05-2014 6:49pm

thesultan wrote: »

on the new sky on demand , do you have have a hd subscription to work it?

Nope

AlmostQuick · 20-05-2014 10:56pm

Anyone else get the email about the safety problem with the wifi adapters? Seemingly the screws can fall out and presumably they can come apart while plugged in. Checked and mine looks ok anyway...

jeffk · 21-05-2014 9:11am

Got one of the mini connectors yesterday and after a hour(and trying different routers and settings on each)I finally got it to connect.

Sky have stupidly put the password entry in uppercase letters and my wifi password was all lowercase. Just a heads up in case anyone else has issues connecting it.

Racket · 21-05-2014 11:48am

jeffk wrote: »

Got one of the mini connectors yesterday and after a hour(and trying different routers and settings on each)I finally got it to connect.

Sky have stupidly put the password entry in uppercase letters and my wifi password was all lowercase. Just a heads up in case anyone else has issues connecting it.

It works if you ignore the upper/lowercase issue and put in the password.

jeffk · 21-05-2014 11:53am

Racket wrote: »

It works if you ignore the upper/lowercase issue and put in the password.

I typed in it numerous times with two different routers and got a network error.
I gave up,looked on Google later on and seen someone said sky has it as uppercase as default,so tried keep pressing till i got lower case and it connected.

Racket · 21-05-2014 12:31pm

jeffk wrote: »

I typed in it numerous times with two different routers and got a network error.
I gave up,looked on Google later on and seen someone said sky has it as uppercase as default,so tried keep pressing till i got lower case and it connected.

It's worked for me with just putting in the letters as uppercase on the Sky box even though they're all lowercase in the password so that's a bit strange.

jeffk · 21-05-2014 1:29pm

Racket wrote: »

It's worked for me with just putting in the letters as uppercase on the Sky box even though they're all lowercase in the password so that's a bit strange.

Sure is, a hours work to find out its something simple(maybe just in my case)

At least the information is here if people have a similar issue.

thesultan · 22-05-2014 5:48pm

Need to get my router going to. After I go into settings what do I do?

jeffk · 22-05-2014 5:50pm

thesultan wrote: »

Need to get my router going to. After I go into settings what do I do?

If you have a WPS button on your router press that and its meant to work.

Otherwise you pick your wifi out of a list,put in the password and that's it.

thesultan · 23-05-2014 2:52pm

Mine has my internet connection picked up but gives me the sky on demand link for sky to go to. What do I do from here?

jeffk · 23-05-2014 3:21pm

Once you have found it and put in your password go to the on demand section and you'll see catch up etc

Shiraz 4.99 · 16-06-2014 10:56am

I hooked mine up last night, the lowercase letters thing was the key to getting my password working.
The box set selection seems very small, is it the same in the UK, so sign of the "Grandaddy of them all, The Wire", as was advertised.

So, can we ever expect the RTE Player to be added ?.

ThisRegard · 16-06-2014 1:26pm

The Wire was there until recently, it may have expired. It sounds like you may have just looked at the homepage of the box sets, there's an A-Z list of them all.

Shiraz 4.99 · 16-06-2014 2:44pm

ThisRegard wrote: »

The Wire was there until recently, it may have expired. It sounds like you may have just looked at the homepage of the box sets, there's an A-Z list of them all.

You must be right, it says over 200 box sets on the website

Shiraz 4.99 · 24-06-2014 1:44pm

ThisRegard wrote: »

The Wire was there until recently, it may have expired. It sounds like you may have just looked at the homepage of the box sets, there's an A-Z list of them all.

Yep, just select "All" & you get the full listing

liaml1974 · 25-07-2014 11:44am

typical sky robbing B*******. Now we have to upgrade to HD package if we want to download box sets. From sky website see below.

"Here's the legal bit

From 30 September, ROI customers will require a Sky HD subscription to access Box Sets.

24 LIVE ANOTHER DAY © 2014 Fox and its related entities. All rights reserved. Hannibal © 2014 Chiswick 2 Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Scandal © ABC Studios. Ray Donovan © Showtime Networks Inc. All rights reserved. Banshee SM under licence from Home Box Office, Inc. The F1 logo, F1, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing BV, a Formula One group company. All rights reserved."

muffler · 25-07-2014 12:32pm

liaml1974 wrote: »

typical sky robbing B*******. Now we have to upgrade to HD package if we want to download box sets. From sky website see below.

A bit OTT there dude. No one's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to stay or take out a HD sub

Gerry Wicklow · 25-07-2014 2:50pm

They're going to have to get the money for Deutschland and Italia from somewhere and the Micks are always a soft touch. :P

channelsurfer2 · 25-07-2014 8:04pm

That's mad. For an extra 5pounds the UK gets HD and box sets along with the entertainment extra pack.

muffler · 25-07-2014 10:58pm

Got an email from Sky yesterday re Sky Go and the Xbox 360 if its any help to anyone.

We're making some changes

Hello muffler,

From 29 July, customers will need to sign up to Sky Go Extra to watch Sky Go on an Xbox 360. As an existing Sky Go Extra customer, the good news is these changes don't affect you. You can keep enjoying the TV you love on your Xbox 360, along with all of the other great benefits Sky Go Extra has to offer.

With Sky Go Extra, not only can you watch live and on demand TV from Sky on your Xbox 360, but you can also download great TV shows, movies and box sets (depending on your TV package) to your compatible laptop, mobile or tablet via WiFi. Then, watch them later absolutely anywhere – even without an internet connection. You can also register up to four devices, two more than Sky Go.

Thank you for being a Sky customer.

zg3409 · 26-07-2014 6:07am

muffler wrote: »

Got an email from Sky yesterday re Sky Go and the Xbox 360 if its any help to anyone.

Does that mean, that even though you don't download the movies you now need to pay Sky an extra €5/month for this service?

I am glad I use a laptop for my player, and have a good enough internet connection to not need to download the movies.

A laptop allows access to RTE player, TV3 player etc, along with youtube etc.

A few years ago I had no choice but to download the movies as my internet was too slow for real time viewing.

Talk about bait and switch....free...no extra charge...until we start charging.

And the gas thing is it's a fiver, but you only get access to whatever TV package you are on, so if you do not have the movies and sports, you still pay the fiver for a more limited choice, but if the suckers pay, they will never stop increasing prices.

muffler · 26-07-2014 11:07am

zg3409 wrote: »

Does that mean, that even though you don't download the movies you now need to pay Sky an extra €5/month for this service?

Thats pretty much it. Anyone who watches Sky Go on the Xbox 360 and wishes to continue will now have to pay an extra €5 a month to get Sky Go extra.

The only plus to come out of this is that its Xbox 360 only and no other devices are affected. If anyone feels they cant live without it then the bonus is that they can have up to 4 devices registered under Sky Go extra........but can only watch on 2 of those devices at any given time.

As a little aside if anyone has multi room or multiscreen as its now called they should be getting the Sky Go extra at no additional cost.

Cherrycola · 29-07-2014 12:34pm

liaml1974 wrote: »

typical sky robbing B*******. Now we have to upgrade to HD package if we want to download box sets. From sky website see below.

"Here's the legal bit

From 30 September, ROI customers will require a Sky HD subscription to access Box Sets.

24 LIVE ANOTHER DAY © 2014 Fox and its related entities. All rights reserved. Hannibal © 2014 Chiswick 2 Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Scandal © ABC Studios. Ray Donovan © Showtime Networks Inc. All rights reserved. Banshee SM under licence from Home Box Office, Inc. The F1 logo, F1, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing BV, a Formula One group company. All rights reserved."

Just saw this myself on the website while researching multi screen, that's obviously why they were giving away the free on demand connectors, get us hooked and then take it away!
How much is a HD sub anyway? Not that I'll get it just to enable me to download boxsets!
It's a bummer though, loved the boxsets option.

muffler · 29-07-2014 1:27pm

Cherrycola wrote: »

How much is a HD sub anyway?

It's €15 but they quite often give 50% off deals. You just need to check that it doesnt tie you into another 12 month contract.

JoeyJJ · 18-08-2014 9:23pm

having issues with downloading using upc bb, usually says downloaded after 6%, only managed once to download. went through call with sky next is a call out. however wondering if there something that needs to change on the router?

zg3409 · 19-08-2014 3:14pm

JoeyJJ wrote: »

having issues with downloading using upc bb, usually says downloaded after 6%, only managed once to download. went through call with sky next is a call out. however wondering if there something that needs to change on the router?

I use UPC BB for Sky. No changes needed to router. Are you using a cable between the router and the Sky box? or Wifi? If not using a cable try a long ethernet network cable.

neacy69 · 05-09-2014 11:27am

liaml1974 wrote: »

typical sky robbing B*******. Now we have to upgrade to HD package if we want to download box sets. From sky website see below.

"Here's the legal bit

From 30 September, ROI customers will require a Sky HD subscription to access Box Sets.

24 LIVE ANOTHER DAY © 2014 Fox and its related entities. All rights reserved. Hannibal © 2014 Chiswick 2 Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Scandal © ABC Studios. Ray Donovan © Showtime Networks Inc. All rights reserved. Banshee SM under licence from Home Box Office, Inc. The F1 logo, F1, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing BV, a Formula One group company. All rights reserved."

Got that notice....too expensive in my opinion...Netflix is a much better option for cheaper

ShoulderChip · 08-09-2014 8:15pm

Is there any marketplace where I could buy someones extra registered device slot on Sky Go to get sky sports does anyone know?

Shiraz 4.99 · 18-09-2014 2:37pm

neacy69 wrote: »

Got that notice....too expensive in my opinion...Netflix is a much better option for cheaper

What sad here is I'd stopped torrenting TV episodes due to all the box sets on Sky.
Back to the darkside for me so.

9wetfckx43j5rg · 07-10-2014 12:16pm

Some of my box sets are still available eg Lost, Prision Break, Arrow and some are not eg Agents of Shield. What's the story there?

ftakeith · 07-10-2014 12:31pm

the newsroom series 2 is the only tv series I was waiting for from sky boxed sets

HD pack should be scrapped as freesat/saorview have plenty of HD TV content for free

Shiraz 4.99 · 08-10-2014 10:24am

Maleah Many Halo wrote: »

Some of my box sets are still available eg Lost, Prision Break, Arrow and some are not eg Agents of Shield. What's the story there?

I went in last night & downloaded Season 2 of Waking Dead & series 3 of the West Wing no problem & I don't have a HD sub.
Perhaps they've rowed back on the threat.

Will I Amnt · 14-10-2014 9:08am

Downloads have gotten so slow for me, I could usually watch the programme in a matter of seconds after 2 or 3% downloaded, now it's taking hours more often than not. Anyone else having issues with download speeds?

It's over Wifi but I've a fairly consistent 40-45mb download speed.

harr · 14-10-2014 10:13am

Big issues for a lot of people both here and in the UK ,sky don't seem to know what's going on a big thread about it here.The more people that let them know the better. This is the link http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/On-Demand-Catch-Up-TV/On-Demand-Downloads-very-slow-What-is-normal/m-p/2176089#M52229

Will I Amnt · 14-10-2014 10:22am

harr wrote: »

Big issues for a lot of people both here and in the UK ,sky don't seem to know what's going on a big thread about it here.The more people that let them know the better. This is the link http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/On-Demand-Catch-Up-TV/On-Demand-Downloads-very-slow-What-is-normal/m-p/2176089#M52229

Cheers, thought it might have been equipment on my end. It's gotten really bad lately, to the point where I would start to download an episode up to 2 hours before I planned on watching it, that's not very "On Demand"
I could download a series in that time from a less than legal source...

harr · 14-10-2014 10:28am

Will I Amnt wrote: »

Cheers, thought it might have been equipment on my end. It's gotten really bad lately, to the point where I would start to download an episode up to 2 hours before I planned on watching it, that's not very "On Demand"
I could download a series in that time from a less than legal source...

Very slow for me as well it took me nearly 6 hours to download a 3.9gb program last week and could not view it till it was nearly 50% download .
Not getting what we are paying for...

peking97 · 14-10-2014 10:30am

Will I Amnt wrote: »

Downloads have gotten so slow for me, I could usually watch the programme in a matter of seconds after 2 or 3% downloaded, now it's taking hours more often than not. Anyone else having issues with download speeds?

It's over Wifi but I've a fairly consistent 40-45mb download speed.

I used it just last night without any problems. Was able to start watching after less than a minute.

Will I Amnt · 14-10-2014 10:47am

peking97 wrote: »

I used it just last night without any problems. Was able to start watching after less than a minute.

Yeah, me too for the pilot of The Blacklist in HD, no problem at all, not more than 20 seconds after I started the download. I went to watch the next episode and it took a good 15 minutes to go from 1% to 2%. The second instance is sadly the more regular occurrence for me now.

fabvinny · 15-10-2014 1:45pm

no more downloading boxsets now unless you are paying for a HD subscription?? rip off!!

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