Is Sky about to launch a 4K TV this week?

There'south a Sky issue taking place on October 7th and there's plenty of speculation that the British broadcaster is virtually to launch its own 4K TV.

ISPreview have come across leaks pertaining to Sky's 'magical' event this week, and it would appear that following on from the Financial Times article in September, that Sky is indeed about to launch its own 4K Television.

It's thought to be called Sky Glass and use QLED display technology, with support for 4K and HDR, equally well as feature an integrated built-in Dolby Atmos soundbar.

It'south not entirely a radical suggestion, given Roku has launched TVs with Hisense and TCL in the UK, but then again, Sky has massive infrastructure backside information technology.

In that location's nevertheless a number of questions, mainly about price, but it seems as if they'll be three sizes (43-, 55- and 65-inch), with the smallest size rumoured to price £650.

The significance of this product is that it potentially does abroad with needing a satellite dish altogether. A dish is currently the only way to go Sky in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, and funnelling Sky'south content over IP (or as information technology's supposedly been labelled SoIP – Heaven over Internet Protocol) would open Sky up to more customers, using the aforementioned technology that features in the XiOne streaming box made past Comcast, who own Sky.

The Sky Glass TV is besides thought to come up with a device chosen a 'Puck', which is not thought to be a controller just a Telly streaming device that adopts the same user interface as the Sky Glass TV. A household could have upward to a maximum of three Glass systems and half-dozen pucks that could all run concurrently 4K and HDR content.

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The scope of this would suggest an entirely new organization that'south a function of Sky'south Idiot box offering, integrating its broadband and Boob tube service into one. We had a ponder about how a Heaven Telly would work and there are however some details that require clarification such as subscriptions and who the target market is: existing subscribers looking to upgrade or new customers who tin can't a dish in their area?

Nevertheless, the rumoured appearance of a Heaven TV is an interesting 1, and alongside speculation that Sky is also testing a box that works over net rather than dish, it looks like the British broadcaster is investing in a future that's heavy on net streaming.

We'll find out on October seventh just what Sky has in shop for its customers.

A sign of where TV is going?

Sky take often been the first to think outside the box, and this would exist an unexpected change in approach in a market place where the fight has ever been to exist the box beneath your Tv, not the TV itself.

Simply there are still hurdles to spring over, including price, subscriptions and what kind of appeal this TV will have. Information technology's likely a Sky Television receiver will lock you into the feel Sky wants you lot to accept and given the competitive nature of the UK Telly market, how courageous volition Sky exist? Nosotros'll notice out shortly enough.