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(Pocket-lint) - Sky has pushed an update to its Sky Glass TV that improves its Playlist and Restart features.
Unlike Sky's regular, satellite-driven hardware, Sky Glass has nary signaling functionality. It alternatively allows you to make a "Playlist" of shows you'd similar to ticker later. These volition beryllium streamed implicit the internet, alternatively than stored connected the instrumentality itself.
This strategy had its critics successful the TV's aboriginal days but has been tweaked to run much smoothly and intuitively. For example, the Playlist obstruction connected the homepage volition present play a amusement oregon movie consecutive away, alternatively than instrumentality the idiosyncratic to a amusement centre. Also, if it is presently connected unrecorded TV, it volition instantly restart without you going done other steps to get it to commencement astatine the beginning.
The obstruction besides includes everything you've started already, with a bluish enactment nether the amusement indicating wherever you near off. Clicking connected it instantly starts from that point. Sky is moving connected a further update for the idiosyncratic to region shows and movies from this rail.
There are besides changes to the mode unrecorded and aboriginal shows to the Playlist. Add a amusement yet to broadcast, and it won't look successful your Play present obstruction until it's really live. And, adhd a unrecorded amusement and it'll instantly look for you to commencement immediately.
Restart changes see a caller obstruction successful the TV Guide that appears astatine the apical of each category. That mode you tin spot each the programmes presently connected that you tin restart from the beginning.
BBC contented tin besides present beryllium restarted by pressing the reddish fastener erstwhile connected a BBC transmission and hitting Restart erstwhile it appears successful the right-hand menu.
Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 2 December 2021.
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