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Title: xbox 360 & Sky Player
Post by: Jay on 13 June 2011, 14:37

Anyone using it?

I don't have Sky, but you can pay £15 to use Sky Player or £1 to 'rent' a movie etc from it and just wondering what the score is? How well does it buffer the content, and you replay the movie after you've watched it? is there a time limit to watch/rewatch movies?

Title: Re: xbox 360 & Sky Player
Post by: admc6 on 18 June 2011, 12:37

I have it and use it, but i am a sky customer anyway.

No idea about the costing side, but connection wise I've never had any problems buffering as long as your not got a download program running. (bittorrent etc)

Title: Re: xbox 360 & Sky Player
Post by: Dave_IOW on 18 June 2011, 12:50

as said before, also sky customer and its free to watch the films (probably 400odd on there) and buffers just fine  :wink:

No idea about replay etc as i can do it as many times as i want  :laugh:

Title: Re: xbox 360 & Sky Player
Post by: damien010685 on 19 June 2011, 17:36

It can be slow at times and quality is pish for a lot of things thats just my opinion but i watch mostly HD rips so i compare it to that

Title: Re: xbox 360 & Sky Player
Post by: Jay on 20 June 2011, 14:02

Quote from: damien010685 on 19 June 2011, 17:36

It can be slow at times and quality is pish for a lot of things thats just my opinion but i watch mostly HD rips so i compare it to that

so the movies are mostly in SD rather than HD?

Title: Re: xbox 360 & Sky Player
Post by: admc6 on 20 June 2011, 20:34

I think SD but on a HDTV, but to me, they look sharp enough.

Title: Re: xbox 360 & Sky Player
Post by: kr1s77 on 22 June 2011, 12:50

i dont have sky but my sister does, would i be able to use her account on my xbox?? if so what would she need to give me (detail wise)?

Title: Re: xbox 360 & Sky Player
Post by: admc6 on 22 June 2011, 13:29

Yes you could. She should have a sky ID, you need that and her password for it. Easy as anything to set up and you only need to do it once.
BTW you do need a gold account on xbox to use it.

Title: Re: xbox 360 & Sky Player
Post by: damien010685 on 22 June 2011, 14:21

They are barely standard def either they are scaled down a lot to avoid lag and buffering issues! but some folk might not notice but compared to even std sky its crap maybe on a smaller screen its diff but on the 55 its gash i tested it a few times in comparison to the hd and std doesnt even compare!

Title: Re: xbox 360 & Sky Player
Post by: Horney on 22 June 2011, 20:32

For movies I just rent stuff off xbox live in HD which is pretty good picture wise. I also rent stuff from iTunes and stream to my telly from my laptop but iTunes HD is only 720p.

Nick

Title: Re: xbox 360 & Sky Player
Post by: damien010685 on 23 June 2011, 07:06

Yeh when you rent the movies horney they actually are 720p or 420p they are ok but sky player scales down badly to avoid lag = Utter gash! it should be free its that crap IMO