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    Re: Sky Q to add Spotify, HDR, and voice queries in spring

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Midas View Post
    Out of an hour of telly you get about 30 minutes. The rest is adverts and treating the viewers like f**king morons.
    Well that's a great reason not to watch TV. On the plus side, Netflix has improved a lot since I first tried it and doesn't come with a single advert. The whole point of SKY when it launched was to have advert free TV for a subscription.

    I'm not interested in watching adverts, never have been and never will be.

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    Re: Sky Q to add Spotify, HDR, and voice queries in spring

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Midas View Post
    Good that HDR is coming. This is just as important, if not better, than 4K.

    Having to endure adverts is one of the suckiest things about this though. The premium subscription cost itself should be more than enough to pay for the service, nevermind suffering ads.

    I apologise for the following rant::

    And finally, on their page, describing the number of hours of content on a 4K box they say "Store up to 1000 hrs of standard definition TV".
    Really, SKY? Hours of standard definition? Who watches standard definition TV these days? No one. What does 1000 hrs of SD TV even mean? Is that 10s of hours of 4K? urhg! I hate Sky so much.

    Apart from some of the quality shows like, GoT and TWD, it's television designed to numb to minds of the masses and suckering them into becoming corporate consumer zombies.

    Sky has done this to TV::
    The Show starts and they spend several minutes telling you what you're about to watch.
    The first advert arrives and on returning to the show they then spend another minute recapping what you've just watched.
    Repeat.
    Out of an hour of telly you get about 30 minutes. The rest is adverts and treating the viewers like f**king morons.
    To be fair, ITV and Ch4 do this a lot as well. See any of Gok Wan's shows.

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    Re: Sky Q to add Spotify, HDR, and voice queries in spring

    Awesome news on HDR

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    Re: Sky Q to add Spotify, HDR, and voice queries in spring

    Quote Originally Posted by Smudger View Post
    To be fair, ITV and Ch4 do this a lot as well. See any of Gok Wan's shows.
    Maybe, but that's filler tat. They don't claim to be a premium (and very expensive) service.

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