Sky Player built into Windows 7

BBC iPlayer?

Don't suppose BBC iPlayer can be view through WMC?

I know you can just view it through a browser, but it would be nice if it was all integrated in WMC.

By Grunthos on 22 Oct 2009

You get iPlayer on the PS3

But not 4OD or Five or ITV.

Now SKY on WMP, but none of the others.

I guess nobody is talking to anybody again...

By cheysuli on 22 Oct 2009

and in this age of anti competitive regulations, they get the biggest player on board, tantalising people with what they can get from Sky, while ignoring other television providers. Interesting

By kurtnielsen on 22 Oct 2009

I imagine Sky paid them a lot to add this service. It's in Sky's interest afterall.

By Grunthos on 22 Oct 2009

Seeing as the iPlayer is widely available, as a licence payer I would certainly not want the BBC to pay Microsoft to integrate it into Media Centre.
Would be nice if Sky offered something for free, even Sky 3 or maybe a rolling random channel each week as a taster?

Is Sky HD available through this service (at a reasonable HD quality).

By halsteadk on 22 Oct 2009

Yup

Been saying for a while that I would love iPlayer integrated on Media Center. You can use TunerFree but it can be a bit clunky.

Shame Sky's service is not also as a pay per view.

By JStairmand on 22 Oct 2009

The TunerFree MCE plugin will allow you to get iPlayer, 4OD, Five and ITV and can be configured for most other channels available as streams from Websites, Including Hulu and Sling, although you'll need some way of spoofing a US IP address to get content from the latter two.

That said, it would have been nice to have them built into Media Centre native.

By Revrd_X on 22 Oct 2009

;-)

Is there an echo in here? lol

By bigdave69 on 22 Oct 2009

Although TunerFree looks good, nothing compares to it being intergrated into WME. that said anyone know if there is something similar for XMBC or mediaportal?

By DaChimp on 22 Oct 2009

I'm not sure what you mean by "pulling a rabbit out of the hat". On my PC at least, all the Sky TV player says is "Coming Soon...."

By nrmsmith on 22 Oct 2009

Ok another crapware item? Will try to deinstall asap if MS gives me the option kindly

By aralerm on 22 Oct 2009

On It's Way

A sky icon with coming soon has just popped up on my media center.

By JStairmand on 22 Oct 2009

why haven't i got the icon. i'm bummed now.

By TimoGunt on 22 Oct 2009

I noticed the Sky icon in Win 7 RC too, but only on the second time I started Media Centre.

By halsteadk on 22 Oct 2009

it appeared on my RTM MC yesterday. I live outside the UK, I wonder if it will be available to me?

By dave3366 on 23 Oct 2009

Interesting: I had a critical update yesterday. Now i have Sky Player.........They can take it and shove it. This is stealth installation of marketing products. I cant even see (yet) how to uninstall it!!!

Sneaky sneaky sneaky.....

By Joner39 on 23 Oct 2009

Well hang on. It might be considered sneaky but for a lot of Sky subscribers it's fantastic. I can't see what harm it does having an icon there anyway

By TimoGunt on 23 Oct 2009

Use Sky Player anyway, but whats critical about this?

As you put it "I can't see what harm it does having an icon there anyway", I thought windows 7 was meant to be less bloated than VISTA!! installing extra software (secretly, without asking anyway) onto peoples PC's is going against what the whole point of windows 7 was meant to avoid according to Microsoft. However I am a Sky subscriber and have the SkyPlayer app installed on my PC anyway... but I still think there should have been option do you want to install this and not just bundle this as a critical update, after all what's critical about this?

By generalcaw on 24 Oct 2009

I agree that there is no harm in having it there. What I dislike is the sneaky way it appeared. Even if i was a sky subscriber, I would still want an option and a choice. This is not good and so far I cant find out which update it was a part of but i am uninstalling the updates in reverse order until it dissappears.

Times are hard and companies need to make money to save jobs, but not in a sneaky manner......

By Joner39 on 25 Oct 2009

All updates removed and it is stil installed. Can only be via the EPG updates which surely constitues a backdoor to install applications? Isn't this the same as spyware, malware and the such like would work??? It's great for those who want it, but we should still have had a choice. This is very bad. What next?

By Joner39 on 25 Oct 2009

I have nothing appear yet :(

By baldric on 26 Oct 2009