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(Pocket-lint) - Sky has yet taken the plunge and announced a mode to get the afloat Sky work without needing a outer dish.
However, alternatively than an expected internet-connected box, it has introduced its ain TV: Sky Glass.
We were astatine the swanky London motorboat lawsuit to perceive each astir it and besides get a demo of the TV itself. Here are our archetypal thoughts.
What is Sky Glass?
Sky Glass is simply a implicit all-in-one TV strategy for UK customers. It comes successful 43-, 55- and 65-inch surface sizes and has the full Sky work built-in.
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The TV is an QLED exemplary (i.e. Mini LED), with a 4K Ultra HD solution and precocious dynamic scope enactment (in HDR10, HLG and Dolby Vision from). It besides has a afloat Dolby Atmos dependable strategy incorporated, with six speakers, the upfiring Atmos drivers built into the casing, positive an integrated woofer for handling bass.
It besides comes with its ain far-field microphones for dependable enactment - without needing the dependable fastener connected the remote. That's inactive disposable too, but you tin conscionable accidental "Hello Sky" and the TV itself volition respond. Voice commands tin aftermath up the TV and adjacent crook it disconnected erstwhile you caput to furniture - conscionable accidental "Hello Sky, goodnight". Think of it similar an Amazon Echo but successful TV form.
Everything is integrated into a azygous bundle experience, including unrecorded TV, apps, and each the on-demand contented you could ever apt want. It uses a enactment of suggestions: your ain favourites and adjacent the trusty aged TV usher to contiguous a large mode to entree contented from Sky, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, BBC iPlayer and more.
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But, for the archetypal clip successful a Sky TV device, determination is nary signaling functionality.
What does Sky Glass look like?
We'll beryllium updating this archetypal thoughts portion soon with our main impressions of the representation and audio performance, but it indispensable beryllium remembered this is nary specified TV. This is simply a afloat amusement strategy - and astatine a precise charismatic terms too.
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You tin bargain the 43-inch TV for £649 (or £13/month implicit 48 months), the 55-inch for £849 (£17/month), oregon 65-inch for £1049 (£21/month). A Sky Ultimate TV bundle (£26/month) is required arsenic a minimum too.
As an LED-backlit set, you shouldn't expect OLED level show successful presumption of achromatic levels. We recovered the Glass' viewing space to beryllium a small shallow, but successful examination with likewise priced peers, Sky has intelligibly pulled retired each the stops.
First Impressions
We volition beryllium delving further into the specifications and abilities of Sky Glass successful an update to this portion soon. For now, though, this is simply a bold and absorbing determination that volition undoubtedly shingle up the AV industry.
By offering the TV acceptable on with Sky programming and Netflix for 1 monthly interest - nary dish, nary box, nary instal required - it moves TV buying to a mobile phone-style concern exemplary - and we wholly approve.
It's besides a good-looking set, with a decorator consciousness astir it. Yes, it's beefy acknowledgment to the six speakers hidden successful the chassis, but the colour options are clever - there's Anthracite black, Ocean blue, Racing green, Dusky pink, and Ceramic achromatic - and we emotion the thought of snapping facias to the talker grille via magnets to alteration up the look. Colour america impressed for now.
Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 7 October 2021.
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