Sky Glass: Company surprised and happy at demand ahead of Christmas
Summary
And it is the technology powering the Sky Glass which Skys parent company Comcast sees as providing the most value, as chief executive Brian Roberts told Ian King Live. Users need their own subscriptions to the streaming services that arent covered in their Sky plan, but the Glass catalogue includes iPlayer, Amazon, Netflix, Disney+, ITVHub, All4, Spotify, YouTube, Apple TV+ and Peloton. The Guardian said "the screen rivals lower mid-range TVs costing about £500," while Wired magazines review - which was particularly critical of the Sky Glass as a television - complained about uneven backlighting. We see them when we visit friends and grandparents, but at home weve been using our laptop and phone screens to watch films and TV, almost always from on-demand services, and almost always separately except for the governments COVID-19 news briefings when we huddle nervously together. Short of the romance of a comfortable theatre - and in an era when being close to strangers isnt especially safe - the Sky Glass has definitely offered that kind of experience and with a much broader range of programming than anything other than our pandemic neurosis had previously brought us together for.