BSkyB is launching a new application which combines the existing Sky Q and Sky Go app features, allowing customers to watch shows from Sky, Virgin Media, RTE and more in a single, easy-to-use experience. The new Sky Go app features simple, one-touch destinations in a new UI including home, TV guide, browse, downloads and recordings.
The browse page provides viewing by theme and genre, aggregating content across all channels on Sky Go. Personalised Sky Cinema recommendations – suggesting movies based on genre, ‘Because you watched’ and, ‘More like this’. A recordings page allows Sky Q customers to view and control upcoming recordings and series links.
Enhanced accessibility and better navigation features make it easier for visually impaired customers to find content. Voiceover lets customers hear a description of everything they click on, font size can be increased without losing functionality and colours can be inverted for improved contrast. The new Sky Go app will be phased in over the coming weeks.
It is on iOS, Android, Amazon Fire devices and Amazon app store as well as on PC and MAC. Customers will be able to update their existing app, or download the new version from the Google Play, Apple and Amazon app stores for free. Sky Mobile customers can get unlimited streaming of Sky shows, movies and sports on Sky Go with Sky Mobile Watch.
It enables streaming on the go anywhere in the UK and EU, without using any data allowance.
Sky is part of the Comcast group.
Elsewhere on the TV front, Virgin Media and Eir have agreed a deal to carry their sports channels on each other’s TV platforms. The new deal will come into effect ahead of the upcoming Rugby World Cup and the new season of the Champions League season.
Pictured is a scene from HBO drama Succession. Series two is showing on Sky Atlantic
