Watching Films on Sky

sparky360

I was just wondering, how much bandwidth does watching a film or the live streaming take up. on Sky player take up?

mgsrocks

A 2 hour move would be around 1GB.

AdMMM

It tells you how large the movie is in the extra details. Think most of them are clocking in at around 900mb.

blackbetty69

if u got a sky box u wudnt have to worry about that kinda thing

jester77

I think you have the option to download the whole movie beforehand if you are worried about your internet connection causing it to stutter.

Edit:
Ah, saw this was for Sky Player and not Zune. Not sure if you can do that with Sky player

AdMMM

Just did some (probably wrong) maths on this.

1024mb = 2 hours of film
therefore 1024/120 = Megabytes per minute (8.533).

8.533/60 = 0.142

Therefore you need to be able to download at 142kbps to stream a movie seamlessly.

That_Guy

jester77 wrote: »

I think you have the option to download the whole movie beforehand if you are worried about your internet connection causing it to stutter.

Edit:
Ah, saw this was for Sky Player and not Zune. Not sure if you can do that with Sky player

You can't download the movie with Sky Player.

mukki

sky player has 3 quality settings, low is like youtube quality, would look okay on a 14 inch telly, and works perfect on a stable 1mb line.

the high quality setting looks okay on a 32inch telly, and works fine on a 3mb line.

If you are on a download cap remember to turn it off