Farewell SoHo, Hello HBO

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mortonman

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#317613 30-Oct-2024 11:50

Just received an email from sky regarding the deal with HBO. I really only keep the mysky box for soho and sport. Soho was a good go to for quality drama. Looks like Soho is being replaced by an HBO only channel which means other shows will be spread out on other channels (and diff bitrates?).

Sky are pushing the new box as the way to access all the back catalogues and MAX shows. Hope this doesnt mean Dune: Prophecy wont be available on the old boxes. Prefer not to mirror from skygo.

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#3303113 30-Oct-2024 11:56

Trying to force people onto the new Sky Box to see content they are paying for is a rubbish shitty move.

Delete cookies?! Are you insane?!

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#3303161 30-Oct-2024 12:50

Its a bit further down the page...

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=106&topicid=317505

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bmr63

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#3303182 30-Oct-2024 13:58

Terribly cynical of Sky to offer a new service via a mechanism that isn’t yet up to scratch, and isn’t yet the preferred access method of the majority of their customers. Add to this the fact that they probably won’t be streaming audio on anything but…..stereo……and who know what video quality will be.

And to dress it up like it’s a bonus is just the final insult.

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#3303589 31-Oct-2024 09:58

No Max on my SkyGo app. Im updating the SkyGo app see if it turns up there

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#3303645 31-Oct-2024 10:27

>Hope this doesnt mean Dune: Prophecy wont be available on the old boxes

Do you actually use the On Demand features of the old box to download and watch content?
You may be one of the few from what I hear.

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#3303654 31-Oct-2024 10:46

tdgeek:

No Max on my SkyGo app. Im updating the SkyGo app see if it turns up there

It does turn up on Sky Go and Neon after updates.

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#3303655 31-Oct-2024 10:49

Handsomedan:

tdgeek:

No Max on my SkyGo app. Im updating the SkyGo app see if it turns up there

It does turn up on Sky Go and Neon after updates.

Just updating now! On Neon as well? So I can watch on the big screen via Neon app?

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#3303977 1-Nov-2024 08:35

SkyGo in the browser (not app) has all Max Content now

Some Seasons of the Trashy TLC/HGTV shows are still 1 season behind the US

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razor2000nz

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#3304077 1-Nov-2024 12:58

The SkyGo app (ios) has Max tab as well. Hit browse on the taskbar at the bottom of the app and there is a Max section to select.

JimmyH

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#3307009 8-Nov-2024 17:09

bmr63:

Terribly cynical of Sky to offer a new service via a mechanism that isn’t yet up to scratch, and isn’t yet the preferred access method of the majority of their customers. Add to this the fact that they probably won’t be streaming audio on anything but…..stereo……and who know what video quality will be.

And to dress it up like it’s a bonus is just the final insult.

Steve

(customer for almost 30 years)

I currently have the old box, which I barely use (sadly my SO is keen on it). I would like to dump it to cut costs, but she isn't so keen.

However (I believe) the new box doesn't have analog outputs, which breaks the way I'm currently distributing video around the house if we want to watch it elsewhere (I know, I know, SD quality....).

I have received the same email, and been discussing the inadequacies of the new box with her. And Have managed to secure her agreement that if it becomes mandatory to switch out our old box for the new one then we will cancel. So I'm not hoping they go the whole hog and mandate the new box, so I can dump the blasted services entirely. Overpriced, increasingly ad saturated, and a content lineup that's gradually deteriorating as swathes of the good stuff moves to competing streaming services.

(Customer since 1995)

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#3307279 9-Nov-2024 15:00

It won't become mandatory to swap over (at least I assume not) since SKY themselves have asked current employees with the old box to test some things to ensure they still work.