Sky is “surprised and happy” at Sky Glass sales ahead of Christmas, the company product chief has told Sky News, but he stressed it was easier to understand the product more as an entertainment platform than a telly.
When the hardware was launched in October it was hailed as Sky’s solution to clutter, both physically of electronics and also digitally of streaming service content scattered across multiple apps.
But as a platform rather than a device the company is continuing to roll-out software upgrades to improve image quality and introduce new features. And it is the technology powering the Sky Glass which Sky’s parent company Comcast sees as providing the most value, as chief executive Brian Roberts told Ian King Live.
Sky Glass requires a broadband connection (from any provider, not necessarily Sky) and does away with the need for a satellite dish and the hardware normally spread out across living rooms for a home entertainment system, including set-top boxes and sound bars.
This integration – it needs just a single plug socket – is also key to what the company’s technology displays on screen, aggregating and suggesting content from multiple streaming services so customers don’t have to go searching for it
“How we really think about Sky Glass – and why it is genuinely different, globally a different thing, there’s no other product like it right now – is because we look at it as a massive catalogue,” explained Fraser Stirling, group chief product officer at Sky.
“There’s a catalogue that sits there and has information on live [programming], on-demand, things that you can record, stuff that’s in-app, stuff that’s in other apps, and it’s all there in a massive catalogue,” he said.
Sky Glass has a voice search feature in the television set and in the remote…
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