Sky Player - JESUS CHRIST!!!

[the_lone_wolf]

Caught a tech article today about Sky Player being integrated into Windows 7 Media Center

"Awesome", I thought, "I can watch Road Wars upstairs" - sweeeeet

So, lulled into a false sense of security I waded into pretty much my first legitimate content experience for god knows how long...*

Suffice to say it's now 90 minutes later and I'm back where I started

How they can get away with making something so complicated to install is beyond me, after registering a new sky account and linking it with our viewing card number it took a good half hour to find the bloody download that still doesn't integrate with WMC, then it turns out even though we pay sky every month for our packages that all means jack **** and we have to subscribe to multiroom ("only" £5.00/month) in order to download programs with Sky Player


Erm, how about FU*K YOU Sky, if it's this bloody difficult I'd rather not bother


To put this in perspective while I was wrestling with Sky's hopeless shambles I had an email notifier telling me that my Mininova RSS feed had been updated, the new episodes of The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad and South Park have been uploaded, in order to download them I click once on the email link and the torrent file saves automatically where uTorrent grabs it and automatically downloads my show, when it's finished it'll pop up a notification that I need to click only once, then open the newly downloaded file which is saved in a format anyone can play and that lasts forever

The entire process takes 1hr from start to finish including the download time, and in that time I spend ~10 seconds actively directing it, the rest happens automatically...



*Actually that's a lie, I do occasionally use BBC Iplayer and 4oD

[DarrenSV650S]

I gave up way before you. Too much hassle

I really hate sky and their crappy crappy boxes that never work

The extra fiver a month wound me up, waste of money especially when my internet connection isnt good enough to watch it on ,I was using my 360 though..

I have never downloaded on it, tbh but I watch moives streamed off the web which seems to fine despite my web connection. But we do have multi-room here having 2 boxes.

I'm calling in like 2 weeks to cancel the sky, as I'm moving. I live hope I get another deal so i can get it installed in the new house. Otherwise I'll be back here with a big ladder to unbolt the dish of the house Haven't worked on how to install though yet

i know feckin xbox sky player suck's ass too either give it to people or sod off.

Originally Posted by zsv650

i know feckin xbox sky player suck's ass too either give it to people or sod off.

I haven't hooked up the 360 yet, I take it that its a pile of?

There was a an article a read in the guardian a while back, where one company was gonna produce software that would put all the media players togther so you would only have to to one of em, to see all media output from the varies places.

In short it was blocked, by some **** block in an agency somewhere it seems anything that makes sense, gets turned down sigh

the best thing from the update for me was last.fm intergration now that was worthwhile awesomeness i could take or leave facebook and twitter also they seem to slow the dashboard down quite a bit i spose it's cause there signing in and all that stuff.