TCL’s are supposed to be great too. The TCL6 in particular but they are only selling their low end stuff in the UK last time I check. Hopefully I’ve got this TV for the next 10 years.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Djornson's old 1080p set (age unknown)

Panasonic P50G20 yes i still remember the model number lol. At least 10 years old. Nice plasma based picture though.

Evening all. I bought this 58inch philips ambilight and it FINALLY arrived yesterday. I have to say Im super impressed with the image quality. Really deep blacks and rich colours. The HDR/Dolby Vision stuff looks the business too. My old tv (5year old lg 4k) had HDr but it was pants. In Shadow and Bone on Netflix for example I can see so much detail in the Fold (black foggy/mist stuff). PS5 looks super. 
My only issue is with sound. Im using an LG 300w soundbar/woofer combo over optical. It works, but there is no dedicated optical option, sound just comes through it, but also over the tv speakers and there is a slight delay between the two. If I turn off the tv speakers, the volume level display doesnt show when I adjust volume. So I think I might need to work out a few kinks there.

The ambilight itself is really different, need more time with it to get a proper feel. Price is gone back up to over 700euro now, I got it for 590.

48 and 55 are the same price on Sevenoaks. With the free headphones still. Not sure if Curry’s are the same.

I haven’t got it on Series X but will install and test later as I’ve got a similar setup to you. You’ve got the Arc haven’t you?

TL;DR - switch to stereo when watching Sky

Yep it’s a definite issue with just the app. Only fix I could do without messing around with delay levels was to switch it to stereo. Now I believe that’s all Sky gives you with Sky Go app anyway.

What I think is happening is that the Xbox doesn’t switch to the default sound profile for the content, unlike say an Apple TV. It is always outputting Atmos or DD once you set it in the UI. I’m guessing there is some processing going on from app to Xbox that is causing a delay.

I tried YouTube which was fine and Disney plus. Note that the Sonos app always showed it as being a Dolby Atmos feed which it obviously is not so I think Microsoft are are getting in their own way here. There’s no point pushing out Atmos is there’s no positional data to go with it.

Ideally the setting should have an auto option that would automatically down mix to the content source.

This might be enough to make me actually get Sky, instead of piggybacking on my Mum’s account. There’s already a dish on the house, and we do watch quite a lot of Sky stuff (which I never expected to do).

Nah, Sky Go is only available on phones, consoles, etc. They won’t make a TV app because they’d rather you bought a Sky sub and Sky box.

Switching to stereo it is. Cheers!

Does Sky Go do a better job with, in particular, keeping the HBO back catalogue available than Now TV?

I’d consider subscribing if it does, particularly as doing so would no longer be giving Murdoch any money.

Aye, what Syph said.

Sky Go is an add-on for a full Sky account, intended to let you watch on the go.

Now TV is the nearest match as a stand-alone service.

poprock wrote:

Nah, Sky Go is only available on phones, consoles, etc. They won’t make a TV app because they’d rather you bought a Sky sub and Sky box.

Switching to stereo it is. Cheers!

Of course. What an idiot lol. I only have it on my iPad and PS5.

Ha, that’s exactly what I was gonna say.

No idea how it compares to NowTV, because I’ve never used that.

Game of Thrones is all there, all eight seasons and lots of extra content. No details of how long it’s staying for.

They only have the current episodes of Veep - two episodes on catchup for this week.

Nothing for The Deuce.

Hmm, thanks. Doesn’t sound like it’s much better. I’ll stick with leeching off my brother’s Now TV.

poprock wrote:

Game of Thrones is all there, all eight seasons and lots of extra content. No details of how long it’s staying for. They only have the current episodes of Veep - two episodes on catchup for this week. Nothing for The Deuce.

This isn't entirely true...

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigalow is available.