New computer needed for running Sky Go

New computer needed for running Sky Go

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MikeGTi

2,505 posts

201 months

Wednesday 17th May 2023
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MissChief said:
Bandwidth. They've tried it and found that in the majority of cases the Wi-Fi signal just wasn't strong enough to carry a consistent UHD Stream without buffering or pixelation.
My Amazon Prime and Netflix work fine in UHD, surely Sky aren't any more special?

BlueJazz

506 posts

172 months

Wednesday 17th May 2023
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MikeGTi said:
MissChief said:
Bandwidth. They've tried it and found that in the majority of cases the Wi-Fi signal just wasn't strong enough to carry a consistent UHD Stream without buffering or pixelation.
My Amazon Prime and Netflix work fine in UHD, surely Sky aren't any more special?
Even the BBC can broadcast in 4k. I think improving the Sky Go resolution would call into the question the point of Sky Glass which is just a 4k streaming TV.

ilikepeas

131 posts

27 months

Wednesday 17th May 2023
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Captain_Morgan said:
Which just shows how highly compressed / lossy the encoding is.
Plex appears to be fine with handling high bitrate 4K files

MissChief

7,111 posts

168 months

Wednesday 17th May 2023
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MikeGTi said:
MissChief said:
Bandwidth. They've tried it and found that in the majority of cases the Wi-Fi signal just wasn't strong enough to carry a consistent UHD Stream without buffering or pixelation.
My Amazon Prime and Netflix work fine in UHD, surely Sky aren't any more special?
It’s not just bandwidth from the internet, it’s bandwidth between the boxes, especially for recorded content.

Captain_Morgan

1,229 posts

59 months

Wednesday 17th May 2023
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ilikepeas said:
Captain_Morgan said:
Which just shows how highly compressed / lossy the encoding is.
Plex appears to be fine with handling high bitrate 4K files
& ???

ilikepeas

131 posts

27 months

Wednesday 17th May 2023
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Captain_Morgan said:
& ???
That if Sky mini boxes work using the same technology, it should be able to 4k quite easily. No need to be so condescending. I actually think it's quite bad that a Sky mini box is inferior to a Fire Stick.

Captain_Morgan

1,229 posts

59 months

Wednesday 17th May 2023
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ilikepeas said:
Captain_Morgan said:
& ???
That if Sky mini boxes work using the same technology, it should be able to 4k quite easily. No need to be so condescending. I actually think it's quite bad that a Sky mini box is inferior to a Fire Stick.
Calm down dear it’s only the internet.

Your post about plex made no sense (to me) in relation to my comment about how lossy the encoding must be for uhd streams to be < 25Mbs, considering that raw 4K content from a Blu-ray will often be >100Mbs.

ilikepeas

131 posts

27 months

Wednesday 17th May 2023
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Captain_Morgan said:
Calm down dear it’s only the internet.

Your post about plex made no sense (to me) in relation to my comment about how lossy the encoding must be for uhd streams to be < 25Mbs, considering that raw 4K content from a Blu-ray will often be >100Mbs.
I'm not sure where I said I wanted to stream raw Blu-ray content? I don't think anybody produces TV at that high of a bit rate? All I want is to stream 4k at what providers offer (i.e. 30mbps max)

Edited by ilikepeas on Wednesday 17th May 18:13

Captain_Morgan

1,229 posts

59 months

Wednesday 17th May 2023
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ilikepeas said:
Captain_Morgan said:
Calm down dear it’s only the internet.

Your post about plex made no sense (to me) in relation to my comment about how lossy the encoding must be for uhd streams to be < 25Mbs, considering that raw 4K content from a Blu-ray will often be >100Mbs.
I'm not sure where I said I wanted to stream raw Blu-ray content? I don't think anybody produces TV at that high of a bit rate? All I want is to stream 4k at what providers offer (i.e. 30mbps max)

Edited by ilikepeas on Wednesday 17th May 18:13
I’m quite sure you didn’t say you wanted to stream Blu-Ray content, I’m even more sure that I never said that you did.

I made an observation about the lossy nature of uhd streaming knowing the significant disparity in bit rates between streams from BBC, Netflix, Amazon, etc & the bitrates of a (relatively) uncompressed Blu-Ray.

It’s even more challenging if using uncompressed 4K @ 60fps, that’s around 12Gbs

ilikepeas

131 posts

27 months

Wednesday 17th May 2023
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Captain_Morgan said:
I’m quite sure you didn’t say you wanted to stream Blu-Ray content, I’m even more sure that I never said that you did.

I made an observation about the lossy nature of uhd streaming knowing the significant disparity in bit rates between streams from BBC, Netflix, Amazon, etc & the bitrates of a (relatively) uncompressed Blu-Ray.

It’s even more challenging if using uncompressed 4K @ 60fps, that’s around 12Gbs
Oh my apologies, I thought you were saying there were no means of streaming high quality 4K