Sky Player

conor09 · 27-10-2009 2:49pm

they took it off!! apparently like 600 people downloaded it last night and got red rings there giving it a massive update but i dunno when that will come .. soon hopefully

Fingleberries · 27-10-2009 2:57pm

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Just a quick question about this...how do you go about registering for this and what exactly do you need? I dont have Sky but my parents do and last I checked they don't have a 360. I'm guessing I can register with their details, yeah?

Yep - according to this site (their tip for the thrifty) you can

http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/10/27/sky-player-on-xbox-360-hands-on-photos-and-first-impressions/

conor09 · 27-10-2009 2:58pm

bucks73 wrote: »

According to OXMs Twitter:

Sky is apparently working on the Sky Player problems. It's currently gone from our NXE menus. No Eurosport table tennis for us yet...

Dam! i was looking forward to that table tennis all week

but on a serious note to everyone you need to register first on the site i kept getting errors but i kept refreshing and it worked i need a sky id ( dunno what that is ) but when i entered my user name and password (from the sky player site) into sky on the xbox it said im having network problems or somethin even though i was blatently connected to xbl with gold .. hour later and its gone conpletly .. cant wait till they get it workin, i have sky multiroom so the basic 24 channels are freeeeeeee

conor09 · 27-10-2009 3:08pm

does anyone know if a friend can watch a movie with you if only one person pays for it like that netflix thing in the states? you can make a party but when my friend joined only i was watchin the video

Basq · 27-10-2009 3:11pm

conor09 wrote: »

apparently like 600 people downloaded it last night and got red rings there giving it a massive update but i dunno when that will come .. soon hopefully

I thought RRoD was caused by overheating..?

conor09 · 27-10-2009 3:18pm

basquille wrote: »

I thought RRoD was caused by overheating..?

yea me too but maybe its not a full ring of somethin? im not sure just heard from a friend there.. could be bs

bucks73 · 27-10-2009 3:18pm

conor09 wrote: »

they took it off!! apparently like 600 people downloaded it last night and got red rings there giving it a massive update but i dunno when that will come .. soon hopefully

Where did you read that? It wasnt up at around 5am this morning when I checked and the few I know who managed to download it didnt get RROD. No one on Xbox forums saying that either.

djfattony2000 · 27-10-2009 3:19pm

Over heating of the graphics card.

I hope they dont make the quality worse now because of that.

Srooney03 · 27-10-2009 3:21pm

conor09 wrote: »

yea me too but maybe its not a full ring of somethin? im not sure just heard from a friend there.. could be bs

100% BS

The problem is a server issue on Sky's part and they hope to have it sorted Today, new it wouldnt be long before someone said our consoles are in danger of exploding.

conor09 · 27-10-2009 3:25pm

lol sorry lads, just heard that and came here too see what the story was

killyoutodeath · 27-10-2009 4:05pm

Not sure if it's back yet but if you go to my profile- manage account- download history and go to sky you can select play and get onto it that way (only if you got it earlier) it's working for me now I'm watching sky news.

Srooney03 · 27-10-2009 4:09pm

I have it up and running,looks pretty cool

Mr Freeze · 27-10-2009 4:11pm

basquille wrote: »

Quick question as i'm not at home.. is it possible to setup, then delete a Sky sub, only to set a new one up?

Reason I'm asking is wanna give this a go tonight (and I'll use my own "no-frills" Sky sub) but at the weekend, I'm gonna get my brothers Sky sub (with multiroom etc).

But hope it won't be bound to my sub if I add that first.

I want to do something similar, I have sky, but I don't have the sports, might set it up with my Dads subscription details as he as all the sports.

conor09 · 27-10-2009 4:30pm

its back on the dashboard says its coming later today

shinzon · 27-10-2009 4:43pm

yup same here, if you go into it theres an ad for sky sports news least summits happening

Shin

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 5:09pm

shinzon wrote: »

yup same here, if you go into it theres an ad for sky sports news least summits happening

Shin

Doesn't say what time it's back up yet does it?

Porninferno · 27-10-2009 5:17pm

That_Guy wrote: »

Doesn't say what time it's back up yet does it?

Nope. Just says "Coming Later Today"!

Batesy · 27-10-2009 5:18pm

It's actually working now if you downloaded it this morning. Go to manage account and the recent downloads.

There's some amount of movies on demand!! Very impressed.

fox007 · 27-10-2009 5:18pm

do ya have to go to sky web site and register firts?

Batesy · 27-10-2009 5:21pm

You need a skyid from sky.com. I already registered for skyplayer for the laptop so I was ready to go.

conor09 · 27-10-2009 5:22pm

got it goin yea looks pretty good . qualtiy isnt perfect but its not bad either cant wait for some live premiership matches

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 5:31pm

conor09 wrote: »

got it goin yea looks pretty good . qualtiy isnt perfect but its not bad either cant wait for some live premiership matches

Test it out tonight for the Barnsley and Manchester United match.

Fingleberries · 27-10-2009 5:32pm

Here's a question I was wondering: There seems to be a Monthly subscription for Live TV - do you have to have a subscription to view the on Demand stuff, or is that Pay Per View?

conor09 · 27-10-2009 5:35pm

Batesy wrote: »

It's actually working now if you downloaded it this morning. Go to manage account and the recent downloads.

There's some amount of movies on demand!! Very impressed.

are they on sky player ?? or just zune

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 5:39pm

Fingleberries wrote: »

Here's a question I was wondering: There seems to be a Monthly subscription for Live TV - do you have to have a subscription to view the on Demand stuff, or is that Pay Per View?

I think some of it may be free.

Check out this article. Worth a read.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/microsoft-launches-xbox-360-sky-player

Batesy · 27-10-2009 5:40pm

Sky Player. Free if you subscribe to Sky Movies on your household sub.

I searched for the comedy tab and it had around 140 movies in comedy alone!!!

When you click on a movie it buffers for about 20 seconds and then plays.

Pretty Impressive.

I actually don't see the point in having Zune at all when you have all these movies on Sky Player.

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 5:46pm

Batesy wrote: »

Sky Player. Free if you subscribe to Sky Movies on your household sub.

I searched for the comedy tab and it had around 140 movies in comedy alone!!!

When you click on a movie it buffers for about 20 seconds and then plays.

Pretty Impressive.

I actually don't see the point in having Zune at all when you have all these movies on Sky Player.

I thought this myself. I guess it's for those without a Sky sub. Having said that it might be worth paying the sub for movies instead of paying about six euro at a time for a terrible selection of movies.

conor09 · 27-10-2009 5:55pm

That_Guy wrote: »

Test it out tonight for the Barnsley and Manchester United match.

oh yea will do whens that

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 5:56pm

conor09 wrote: »

oh yea will do whens that

7:30pm on SS2

ViperMAN · 27-10-2009 5:59pm

Hi Guys,

Where you sign up for your SkyId it says
"as a Sky TV customer you can watch a selection of great Sky TV programmes on your computer for free by entering some details that match your digital satellite account."

What are these free channels? Are they the channels that you are paying for on normal SkyTV?

Cheers!

Sky Player

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