I signed up for Sky in the early days, specifically for the football using cable that had been run to my house in Manchester at the time. But I agree, it is expensive and after a few years I stopped it and never signed up since. I refuse to pay their prices out of principle. That means I watch less football but I was finding when I had the Sky package that I was watching far too much
Is your TV a Samsung device John? If it is then I guess it is running Tizen which appears to now be the most popular Smart TV OS out there.
A lot more. I can watch any team playing in the EPL and EFL Also teams in Europe. I can watch all the sky movies and Live British TV. On my 4k firestick. And I can ask Alexa questions on my remote.
I get a lot of that built into my TV. Not sure about the Alexa though. However I have just bought Mrs Ash an Alexa Show device for the kitchen, for Christmas.
Amazon Prime is available in Philippines. I stream it direct to my Samsung via the inbuilt app on the TV.
Good picture quality isn't just about higher resolution, provided by 4K. HDR high dynamic range is a technology that improves quality by extending the contrast, brightness and color of the image. You can think of it as 4K improving the image by giving higher resolution by providing more pixels, whilst HDR provides better quality pixels. There is a lot of HDR content available on Netflix and Prime Video. You can read more here https://www.lifewire.com/difference-between-hdr-and-4k-4176961
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Having had several Samsung TVs the one I have now allows me to screen mirror from an Apple device. This can be very useful. In the past there has been a degree of incompatibility.
Should be getting fibre broadband next week. Some people have had their done already and getting almost 990 mbs (1GB) download speeds. A local company in the region is providing the fibre.
Indeed. It’s a new company called Yayzi. BT Openreach wouldn’t do it without charging a huge amount for infrastructure upgrades. They seem to be doing a good job. I saw them checking the existing conduit in the street to our house the other day. They are doing about 14 houses a day, running the fibre back to their cabinet and bringing householders online.
A lot of house owners were getting next to nothing on copper wire. Working from home and home schooling has forced neighbours to get something done. We at least were getting 16mbs but some were getting pretty much zero. 990 mbs seems insanely fast. I think there are a lot of gamers about.
FTTP is why it is so fast, nice, no chance of that here we only get FTTC and the cabinet is not close and the copper is old.
You won't notice it, most servers won't deliver data to you that quick, all it does is removes your local bottleneck and moves it back up the line to the servers serving you. The main advantage is parallel streaming, so for example watching 4 different movies on 4 different devices at the same time. We've had a symmetric gigabit fibre to the premises for a couple of years and most things are no quicker than my home internet which is 30mbit, it all depends what bandwidth particular service is willing to let you use and most will be throttled. At first it will feel a lot quicker because 16mbit is quite slow and noticeably so these days. edit: changed synchronous to symmetric, getting senile
Most of the house owners are so ecstatic after getting essentially zero mbs on copper and can easily afford £55 a month for the 1gigabyte broadband. There are a lot of people either working from home or run businesses from home so yes multiple users in the same 5 bedroom house will get some benefit. And are getting the benefit. We are taking the 100mbs package.
