wrote: wrote: Ok another issue about the Sky Go app.
Perhaps it's handy to have a mobile application like this on a tablet or phone but on a PC it's a very poor method to view your Sky subscription on a desktop computer.
Apart from the intrusive hardware demands, it does not offer all the channels you are paying for.
Yesterday I could not get Discovery Turbo. Other times it was Quest or Food Network.
All of the +1 (one hour later) channels are absent.
Most News stations are missing.
As we know, the BBC channels are not there because of conflict with BBC iplayer.
But this was NOT the case when they had a website browser using Internet Explorer and Microsoft Silverlight.
The website may have been using older technology but it was better and more compatible than this app.
Sky Go restricts the viewing content your subscription is paying for.
The Cisco Videoguard is heavily demanding on systems, merely to protect Sky's paranoia of copyright protection, unlike the DRM procedures used by the better performing BT app.
Why is there nobody from Sky to answer why I and many others are losing programs they have every right to view?
Surely this thread should have brought this to their attention from the number of replies and complaints from genuine Sky customers?!
If no answer then what is the point of having this entire forum?
The channels available via the Windows app are exactly the same as those available on Android, IOS and the old Silverlight service.
+1 channels were never available via any solution.
If you have Q and are within the home network, you can stream any channel on the Android/IOS app (because it streams direct from the Q box).
I think the point has been missed.
Sky are offering a WORSE service than they did before with the website.
Why can I get Discovery but not Discovery Turbo and some other Discovery channels? Why no Quest? Why no Food Network? I could go on and on!!
Why is the Sky Go app resource hungry while the BT app not?
Why are Sky so paranoid that they harm the service they offer their genuine customers??