Sky Player

conor09 · 27-10-2009 4:22pm

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 4:31pm

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 4:32pm

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 4:35pm

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 4:39pm

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 4:40pm

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 4:46pm

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 4:55pm

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 4:56pm

conor09 wrote: »

oh yea will do whens that

7:30pm on SS2

ViperMAN · 27-10-2009 4:59pm

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!

conor09 · 27-10-2009 5:00pm

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 5:02pm

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 5:05pm

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 5:07pm

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 5:08pm

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

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 5:12pm

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 5:14pm

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 5:18pm

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 5:21pm

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 5:22pm

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 5:22pm

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 5:23pm

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 5:26pm

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 5:28pm

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 5:29pm

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 5:31pm

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

Julez · 27-10-2009 5:33pm

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 5:34pm

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 5:35pm

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 5:35pm

bucks73 wrote: »

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

Ah yeah I know that. Just seems weird though.

ViperMAN · 27-10-2009 5:36pm

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 5:37pm

can anybody watch anything?

conor09 · 27-10-2009 5:41pm

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 5:47pm

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 5:48pm

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

Julez · 27-10-2009 5:51pm

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 5:52pm

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 5:53pm

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 5:54pm

Think people are trying to start urban myths!

come on sky sort this crap out

conor09 · 27-10-2009 5:56pm

That_Guy wrote: »

I hope you get the RROD.

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

bucks73 · 27-10-2009 5:57pm

Julez wrote: »

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.

No it doesnt. It loads the exact same way as other videos such as SentUAMessage.

conor-mr2 · 27-10-2009 5:58pm

I downloaded it this morning from the Video Marketplace.

Ive got a Multiroom account and its configured.

I have it working now. I think its pretty neat and Im suitably impressed. Ive streamed a few movies for testing and watched Sky Sports live. Ill be watching the game later.

So it does work. Heres hoping Sky sort out the "issues" they are having so you guys can get it.

Putting on the dark knight now.

Riesen_Meal · 27-10-2009 6:01pm

Once any niggles are ironed out i'd say it will be a great service....

Thor · 27-10-2009 6:01pm

Julez wrote: »

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.

that video doesnt work differently then any other video that is on the dashboard for people to watch. its exactly the same and its just advertising sky player.

can't see the connection and remember rrod isnt just the gpu failure from over heated and does have other causes. check the secondairy codes to check the actual error.

That_Guy · 27-10-2009 6:03pm

conor-mr2 wrote: »

I downloaded it this morning from the Video Marketplace.

Ive got a Multiroom account and its configured.

I have it working now. I think its pretty neat and Im suitably impressed. Ive streamed a few movies for testing and watched Sky Sports live. Ill be watching the game later.

So it does work. Heres hoping Sky sort out the "issues" they are having so you guys can get it.

Putting on the dark knight now.

I've been looking forward to this for ages. I've a sky multiroom sub and unfortunately I can't watch the match tonight in either of the rooms downstairs. FFS.

ragg · 27-10-2009 6:03pm

Can anyone confirm - i pay for sky full package in one room - do I need to pay mre for this?

ShaneU · 27-10-2009 6:03pm

Fingleberries wrote: »

At work now, can't download to try (mightn't even bother if the line-up is that pants) ... On the XBox site, it is giving a 'offer code' for three months for the price of two if you aren't a sky subscriber.

Code: XBOX3FOR2

They Also have a code for one month free multi-room if you don't have it already.
Code: XBOX1MONTHFREE

Link: http://www.xbox.com/en-IE/skyplayer/default.htm

Tried entering the second code and it said it was invalid

ragg wrote: »

Can anyone confirm - i pay for sky full package in one room - do I need to pay mre for this?

if you want to watch live tv, then yes.

conor09 · 27-10-2009 6:06pm

ragg wrote: »

Can anyone confirm - i pay for sky full package in one room - do I need to pay mre for this?

yes you only get sky news and sky screens 1&2 i think i was only on for a few min

ragg · 27-10-2009 6:12pm

Just folowed the link - 15 quid - they can get ****ed

Julez · 27-10-2009 6:13pm

Thor wrote: »

that video doesnt work differently then any other video that is on the dashboard for people to watch. its exactly the same and its just advertising sky player.

can't see the connection and remember rrod isnt just the gpu failure from over heated and does have other causes. check the secondairy codes to check the actual error.

Alright take it easy. Alls I'm saying a little xbox live logo does't pop up when I go to watch any old video, couldn't be arsed to think about the ins and outs of it all. I'm not trying to stir anything, just saying thats what happened to me. People can take it whatever way they want, and make of it whatever they want.

Sky Player

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