OPINION : Sky Glass 2has arrive , and from my brief look at it during an event in London , it seem like it ’ll be an melioration on the older model .
Yet there ’s still a sense that people are left require more . Specifically , there are people in the diligence who are clamouring for a Sky Glass 2 inOLED form .
The potency for that to happen is low-toned . Why ? Because we do n’t need an OLED edition .
Why do people want an OLED version?
Quite why people are motioning for one are for reason that I do n’t quite understand . It fathom like people want an OLED model in the ( slightly misguided ) belief that OLED is better .
It ’s not necessarily better , it ’s unlike .
Even though Sky believes itself to be a premium broadcaster and that its devices get a premium Leontyne Price , it has nothing to do with the hardware but the message and software that drive the premium price point . Its focus remains on being a mass grocery manufacturer of ironware and content , and that ’s what the original Sky Glass delivered .
So yes , if you ’re a menage cinema rooter , you might need to have an OLED version of Sky Glass , but that implore the interrogation of what type of OLED video display would you prefer .
A standard OLED display like theSony A80L ? The brighter OLED EX interlingual rendition such as thePhilips OLED809 ? Or do you want to go hell for leather and take either aQD - OLEDfrom Samsung or LG ’s newPrimary RGB Tandem OLEDdisplay ? Which one would really satisfy ?
The OLED TVis a competitive market . Even brands such as Sony and Panasonic are struggling in terms of grind away up OLED gross sales , their market share is not as much as you might expect for brands of such renown .
I have my misgiving about whether LG or Samsung would require Sky to be immediately vie against their OLED models . That ’s partially because Samsung and LG regard the shift long time ago that apps , software and content was move to be the next battlefield to seize consumer ’s attention . It ’s not necessarily about having the good tech specs – which is a corner market – but creating a television receiver experience that people want to come back to over and over .
Sky Glass Gen 2 is mass market not niche
move back to Sky ’s aggregated - grocery store ambitions , that glide slope also has affect on the feature of speech Sky frame into its television . It ’s not as if a Sky Glass OLED will suddenly become a gaming powerhouse with 4K/120Hz refresh rate , VRR , and Dolby Vision Game modes .
It ’s not concerned in DTS , Dolby Vision IQ , 120Hz panels , HDR10+,Filmmaker way , PC gamers , Netflix Calibrated Mode , how many dim zone the display has , peak or mean nit light , white point etc .
These are all niche feature film that have footling relevance to the hearing Sky is concerned in naturalise . It wants family unit , it want parents and 2.4 fry , and it wants the type of person who does n’t care about having the good hardware .
A Sky Glass OLED would n’t make sense with the current design conception that Sky has , the very opposite of OLED ’s aesthetical strength with its chunky , duncical appearance . You ’d have to design a newfangled translation of the Sky Live television camera , you ’d have to forfeit that built - in Dolby Atmos sound system while you ’re at it .
If you want a Sky Glass OLED , the solution is a simple one . BuySky Streamand connect it to your existing OLED TV . Voila .
Sky is all about create experience and it does n’t need OLED to do that . Sure it ’d be nice to have one , but it ’s deserving remembering sometimes that ‘ tech headspring ’ are not the target grocery – and that ’s whole fine .
