A 4K Quantum Dot TV with Sky inside – you will get it on subscription, too
Sky has revealed a new TV with integrated Sky Q known as Sky Glass. It says it’s “far more than a TV” and it doesn’t need a dish – it works utterly over Wi-Fi utilizing Sky’s “new international streaming platform”.
There might be three sizes out there – 43, 55 and 65in. You can get it on subscription from £13 per 30 days (and add a £26-per-month Sky Ultimate package deal) from 18 October within the UK and it will come to extra nations in 2022. Naturally these subscription costs are for the entry-degree 43 incher.
Colour choices, too
Because it doesn’t need an additional soundbar, Sky says Glass represents “nice worth” if you wish to purchase it outright at £649, £849, £1049. Extra ‘pucks’ may be added to deliver Sky to different TVs in your house from £10 a month, just like the outdated multiroom subscription.
Sky Glass options integrated Dolby Atmos 360 and there are 5 completely different colors to select from, with matching speaker covers as effectively for the integrated soundbar. Sky claims it has designed your complete TV itself and there’s a redesigned model of the Sky Q distant, too – additionally color-coded.
Voice on the centre
The 10 bit HDR 4K Quantum Dot TV may also be configured to activate with motion in entrance of the display screen, whereas a new ‘Hello Sky’ voice command can even hearth it up. Voice can even have the ability to be used for switching inputs and, in fact, discovering the content material you need. Sky says that a new Sky Guide might be launched, bettering what’s out there on Sky Q.
A brand new + button on the distant provides a present to your playlist, which is a rolling, er, checklist of exhibits you wish to watch from any of Sky’s supported companies together with BBC iPlayer, Prime Video and extra.
Other corporations may use the identical TV tech and Australia’s Foxtel might be rolling it out.
Sky says a key motivator is that wishes us to have the ability to discover content material extra simply quite than having to go looking via apps.
You can even have the ability to get a digicam for the TV for video calls, health exercises and extra – Sky even confirmed video games being performed with assistance from the digicam. Sky says it is additionally working with Microsoft on a Watch Together system utilizing the digicam, so you possibly can watch movies or matches with mates in your Sky Glass.
