SKY Go

Hello sir I want to know about the Sky Go, online television service so can you give me details of this service so that I can take advantage of it.

[Pathak]

Sky Go is an online television service from Sky which launched in January 2006.

About the Sky Go

It was formerly known as Sky Player, Sky Anytime on PC and Sky By Broadband.

The service allows users to watch live and on demand video content from their Mac, Windows PC, mobile phone, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4 via a broadband or Wi-Fi internet connection.

On demand content comprises sports highlights, latest news, movies and TV programmes.

Content is viewable for a limited amount of time and is protected by digital rights management software provided by Microsoft and the NDS Group.

It cannot be copied to disc or viewed beyond the date carried by its license.

The service is available at no extra cost to existing Sky TV customers, with accessible content depending on the subscriber's Sky package.

Non-Sky TV customers can access the service by subscribing on a pay-per-view basis.

Sky Go is viewable on up to two devices, with the ability to increase this to four devices with Sky Go Extra for a monthly fee.

The Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 browser plug-in is required to play content on computers.

To have access to the full selection of live TV channels available on Sky Go, users will need a subscription to the relevant TV packages that correspond to the available channels.

Sky Go has problems playing on any Apple device running Mac OS X 10.7 or higher when playing movies larger than 1000Mb.

History of Sky Go

As of 2013, Sky Go is not in development for other platforms such as BlackBerry 10, Windows Phone 8 or Windows RT.

On 22 January 2013, a download service called Sky Go Extra was added, allowing up to four users to download content to their computers, smartphones and tablets to view offline for an additional monthly fee.

The download feature was previously available for free in the Sky Go Desktop client.

On 1 May 2014, Sky announced the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 will be receiving Sky Go by the end of 2014.

The PlayStation 4 received the service on 3 December 2014, through an application named "TV from Sky.