Sky Player

conor09 · 27-10-2009 05:00PM

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.

nice one thatll keep me occupied some night if theres nobody online and cool thanks that_guy ill try that out later.

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 05:02PM

ViperMAN wrote: »

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!

G.O.L.D
Sky Real Lives
Sky Arts 1
Sky Movies 1 & 2
Sky Sports 1, 2, 3 and Xtra
Sky Sports News
British Eurosport
ESPN
ESPN Classic
Sky News
National Geographic
National Geographic Wild
History
Eden
Cartoon Network
Boomerang
Disney Channel

conor09 · 27-10-2009 05:05PM

ViperMAN wrote: »

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!

Do you mean on the xbox or on the computer? i think on the xbox you get like 24 channels , i got uktv gold ,sky arts , all the sky sports , sky movies screen 1 or so somethin , mtv and a few others . there all live (or live enough) and then there are some channels that you can go on and choose to watch programmes that played earlier eg. i was watchin ian wrights prison football thing on sky1

,

conor09 · 27-10-2009 05:07PM

That_Guy wrote: »

G.O.L.D
Sky Real Lives
Sky Arts 1
Sky Movies 1 & 2
Sky Sports 1, 2, 3 and Xtra
Sky Sports News
British Eurosport
ESPN
ESPN Classic
Sky News
National Geographic
National Geographic Wild
History
Eden
Cartoon Network
Boomerang
Disney Channel

bet me too it

ShaneU · 27-10-2009 05:08PM

Sky movies screen 1 & 2 are free to watch live for movies subscribers, no multiroom needed.

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 05:12PM

ShaneU wrote: »

Sky movies screen 1 & 2 are free to watch live for movies subscribers, no multiroom needed.

I'd also assume the same if you are a Sky Sports subscriber.

ShaneU · 27-10-2009 05:14PM

That_Guy wrote: »

I'd also assume the same if you are a Sky Sports subscriber.

You'd assume wrongly, you need multiroom to watch live sport, already tried it.

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 05:18PM

ShaneU wrote: »

You'd assume wrongly, you need multiroom to watch live sport, already tried it.

Ouch. Lucky for me I have a multiroom.

corcaigh07 · 27-10-2009 05:21PM

so what channels are completely free, just sky news? is it worth setting up the sky ID even without any sub?

Porninferno · 27-10-2009 05:22PM

Just wondering what connections everyone is on. Anything I try to watch buffers every 15 to 30 seconds which ultimately makes it impossible to watch. Gutted 'cause we upgraded our Sky Player subscription when we heard it was going to be available on the Xbox.

We've an Eircom 3MB connection but average a 1.2 to 1.3MB connection speed!!! Must make yet another call to Eircom to complain about crappy service.

ShaneU · 27-10-2009 05:22PM

corcaigh07 wrote: »

so what channels are completely free, just sky news? is it worth setting up the sky ID even without any sub?

If you want to watch sky news it is, you can also rent individual tv episodes for €1.27 without a sub iirc

ShaneU · 27-10-2009 05:23PM

Porninferno wrote: »

Just wondering what connections everyone is on. Anything I try to watch buffers every 15 to 30 seconds which ultimately makes it impossible to watch. Gutted 'cause we upgraded our Sky Player subscription when we heard it was going to be available on the Xbox.

We've an Eircom 3MB connection but average a 1.2 to 1.3MB connection speed!!! Must make yet another call to Eircom to complain about crappy service.

Mine is 3mb too and it works fine.

Julez · 27-10-2009 05:26PM

Not even messing here... could be a complete co-incodence but the sky player just gave me the RROD. Just picked where it says coming later today... sky sports news came up... played for a bit then crashed, when I turned it back on it wouldn't work and I had the three red rings. Its an elite, about a year old. bummer!

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 05:28PM

Porninferno wrote: »

Just wondering what connections everyone is on. Anything I try to watch buffers every 15 to 30 seconds which ultimately makes it impossible to watch. Gutted 'cause we upgraded our Sky Player subscription when we heard it was going to be available on the Xbox.

We've an Eircom 3MB connection but average a 1.2 to 1.3MB connection speed!!! Must make yet another call to Eircom to complain about crappy service.

http://www.opendns.com/ Try this mate. Might help.

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 05:29PM

Julez wrote: »

Not even messing here... could be a complete co-incodence but the sky player just gave me the RROD. Just picked where it says coming later today... sky sports news came up... played for a bit then crashed, when I turned it back on it wouldn't work and I had the three red rings. Its an elite, about a year old. bummer!

Freaky. I hope it's a coincidence or I won't even be touching the Sky Player at all tonight.

bucks73 · 27-10-2009 05:31PM

That wasnt the Sky Player...its just a video.

Julez · 27-10-2009 05:33PM

That_Guy wrote: »

Freaky. I hope it's a coincidence or I won't even be touching the Sky Player at all tonight.

Yeah, I wouldn't, someone was posting about it earlier and I was thinkin no way could it be Sky Player doing it, I mean its not exactly graphically demanding or anything. 3 weeks without an xbox for me now!

Julez · 27-10-2009 05:34PM

bucks73 wrote: »

That wasnt the Sky Player...its just a video.

Like I say could be coincodence! But It's been fine for the past year, not even a hiccup!

Porninferno · 27-10-2009 05:35PM

That_Guy wrote: »

http://www.opendns.com/ Try this mate. Might help.

Thanks for that. Remember seeing that mentioned on the broadband board. Just did another Eircom speedtest and....360kbps:eek::eek:

Man alive I love Eircom!!! I think that may explain a lot. LOL!!

Thanks again.

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 05:35PM

bucks73 wrote: »

That wasnt the Sky Player...its just a video.

Ah yeah I know that. Just seems weird though.

ViperMAN · 27-10-2009 05:36PM

So let me get this straight for a second...Its been a hard days work and Im half asleep:

So you get all the Channels that That Guy listed, even if you dont subscribe to them on your normal Sky TV account?

OR

If you have movies on your normal Sky TV you can get them on the xbox with no multiroom.
If you have sports on your normal Sky TV you need multiroom to work on xbox.

What if you just have the basic, bog standard sky package (the one for 21.50 a month). Can you get anything on the xbox other than Sky News?

Thanks again

no scope · 27-10-2009 05:37PM

can anybody watch anything?

conor09 · 27-10-2009 05:41PM

omg maybe i was right about the rrod lol everyone was sayin no way thats BS lol but now whos laughin :L

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 05:47PM

Statement:

http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/support/default.htm

The Sky Player on Xbox 360 service did successfully launch early this morning, it has subsequently been suspended due to an unforeseen technical issue.
With so much excitement and interest in the service, we'd much prefer to ensure that our customers enjoy the highest possible quality of service.
We would like to take this opportunity to apologise to our customers who have attempted to access the service today.
Sky Player engineers are hard at work to resolve the problem - we expect to have the full service available tomorrow.

FFS. Tomorrow? Was really looking forward to this today. How long have Sky been advertising this? Absolute shambles.

Thor · 27-10-2009 05:48PM

doubtful considering the guy here that got rrod from watching a video which has nothing to do with sky player.

Julez · 27-10-2009 05:51PM

Thor wrote: »

doubtful considering the guy here that got rrod from watching a video which has nothing to do with sky player.

Well it might not be the "Sky Player" but to say it has nothing to do with sky player is a bit much! It is meant to be a sample of the sky player. And it does load differently to a normal video.

conor09 · 27-10-2009 05:52PM

Thor wrote: »

doubtful considering the guy here that got rrod from watching a video which has nothing to do with sky player.

probably but maybe not

excuse me now gents while i stream a movie from my sky player on my xbox 360 console

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 05:53PM

conor09 wrote: »

probably but maybe not excuse me now gents while i stream a movie from my sky player on my xbox 360 console

I hope you get the RROD.

fox007 · 27-10-2009 05:54PM

Think people are trying to start urban myths!

come on sky sort this crap out

conor09 · 27-10-2009 05:56PM

That_Guy wrote: »

I hope you get the RROD.

im scared to go on now lol i know im gonna get it

Sky Player

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