SkyPlayer on Xbox 360 (Launch date, retail bundle, TV Spots)

I got home around 12.30 lastnight and gave it a quick go. All worked fine for me, guess at that time of night though not many people were hammering it.

Weirdly, I was able to watch the two movie channels live despite not having any of the multiroom stuff on my account. Couldn't watch any of the other live channels though as expected barring Sky News.

The live stuff worked great though, no buffering/breakup on the highest quality setting which was a surprise as our broadband isn't particularly quick. Picture quality was surprisingly good too.

The on demand stuff worked well too, just tried a couple of random films and both played quickly with no problems. Sky One seemed to have a weird lack of content though, no main big US shows just gameshow and documentary stuff.

Be interesting to see if it holds up ok tonight when more people are hammering it again but first (brief) impressions were very positive for me.

So, now sky is here (kind of,) does that mean Last fm and the other stuff is now available and where to if they are? as I can't see them.

Pedz wrote:So, now sky is here (kind of,) does that mean Last fm and the other stuff is now available and where to if they are? as I can't see them.

The not out to the masses until mid november I think.

No subtitles?

Photek wrote:

Pedz wrote:So, now sky is here (kind of,) does that mean Last fm and the other stuff is now available and where to if they are? as I can't see them.

The not out to the masses until mid november I think.

Same for Sky Player at the moment. It's still not available to everyone/me.

The Skyplayer website is not allowing new registrations...

Will I ever be able to download this thing?

All working fine at the moment for me..

If you go onto Sky Player on PC and go into account settings, there's a bit for promo codes.

If you enter

XBOX1MONTHFREE

You get to watch the live channels free for a month (in line with your sky subscription package) - works pretty well.

Just watching Clone Wars on Demand and it's working great, no delay, no buffering and decent enough picture. Awesome stuff.

HailToTheKingBaby! wrote:All working fine at the moment for me..

If you go onto Sky Player on PC and go into account settings, there's a bit for promo codes.

If you enter

XBOX1MONTHFREE

You get to watch the live channels free for a month (in line with your sky subscription package) - works pretty well.

Just watching Clone Wars on Demand and it's working great, no delay, no buffering and decent enough picture. Awesome stuff.

If you don't cancel this then when one month elapses they WILL charge you £9.95 a month until you do.

tnman wrote:

Photek wrote:

Pedz wrote:
Same for Sky Player at the moment. It's still not available to everyone/me.

Still don't have it either. 2 days after supposed launch. What a monumental strawberry float up.

I still cant strawberry floating believe you have to pay for the on demand Sky one gooseberry fool! it may be next to nothing in terms of cost, it's the principle!

Fishfingers wrote:

HailToTheKingBaby! wrote:All working fine at the moment for me..

If you go onto Sky Player on PC and go into account settings, there's a bit for promo codes.

If you enter

XBOX1MONTHFREE

You get to watch the live channels free for a month (in line with your sky subscription package) - works pretty well.

Just watching Clone Wars on Demand and it's working great, no delay, no buffering and decent enough picture. Awesome stuff.

If you don't cancel this then when one month elapses they WILL charge you £9.95 a month until you do.

I've not setup any payment stuff on the Sky Player which it implies you need to to subscribe even if you have a normal Sky Subscription though I may be wrong so hopefully they can't charge once this expires. Having said that they say you can pay £5 a month for Sky Player Multiroom which lets you watch whatever channels you're subscribed to on the sky player live, depending on how much use I get from it this next month I might be tempted as won't really miss an extra fiver.

How blooming brilliant is this?

I apreciate that not all people are in my position but basically, for no extra cost, I have SKY TV in my appartment now. It's amazing really. The fact that I can pick and choose what I want to see only adds to it. Watched Liverpool v Scum and then some sky news, followed by some Sky sports 1 then onto a movie. FOR FREE! Thank the lawd for my folks!

Photek wrote:How blooming brilliant is this?

I apreciate that not all people are in my position but basically, for no extra cost, I have SKY TV in my appartment now. It's amazing really. The fact that I can pick and choose what I want to see only adds to it. Watched Liverpool v Scum and then some sky news, followed by some Sky sports 1 then onto a movie. FOR FREE! Thank the lawd for my folks!

I don't understand how it could be "free" at all? You're paying for the Sky subscription, right?

Ginga wrote:

Photek wrote:How blooming brilliant is this?

I apreciate that not all people are in my position but basically, for no extra cost, I have SKY TV in my appartment now. It's amazing really. The fact that I can pick and choose what I want to see only adds to it. Watched Liverpool v Scum and then some sky news, followed by some Sky sports 1 then onto a movie. FOR FREE! Thank the lawd for my folks!

I don't understand how it could be "free" at all? You're paying for the Sky subscription, right?

Nope, my folks living 30miles away have the full sky package.

Photek wrote:

Ginga wrote:

Photek wrote:How blooming brilliant is this?

I apreciate that not all people are in my position but basically, for no extra cost, I have SKY TV in my appartment now. It's amazing really. The fact that I can pick and choose what I want to see only adds to it. Watched Liverpool v Scum and then some sky news, followed by some Sky sports 1 then onto a movie. FOR FREE! Thank the lawd for my folks!

I don't understand how it could be "free" at all? You're paying for the Sky subscription, right?

Nope, my folks living 30miles away have the full sky package.

...so they're paying for it.

Ginga wrote:

Photek wrote:

Ginga wrote:

Photek wrote:How blooming brilliant is this?

I apreciate that not all people are in my position but basically, for no extra cost, I have SKY TV in my appartment now. It's amazing really. The fact that I can pick and choose what I want to see only adds to it. Watched Liverpool v Scum and then some sky news, followed by some Sky sports 1 then onto a movie. FOR FREE! Thank the lawd for my folks!

I don't understand how it could be "free" at all? You're paying for the Sky subscription, right?

Nope, my folks living 30miles away have the full sky package.

...so they're paying for it.

Yeah, but he's NOT PAYING FOR IT.



My brother's got the full SKY package. Now, how to get his details off him, without him suspecting.

Answers on a postcard please.

This reminds me...my aunt has SKY

Drunken_Master wrote:Answers on a postcard please.

nab one of his bills and you should have enough info...

I still don't have this on my Xbox. What a strawberry floated up launch!

Drunken, why don't you just ask your brother if you can use it? Offer him £10 a month or something.