On Demand From Sky

[Dudley]

Just purchased a wireless box to connect our Sky+ box to On Demand services from Sky which is brilliant. Does anyone know if there are any plans to include UTube as one of the options?

[VHG]

I have no idea, however my guess is the answer is no, for two reasons.

1) Everything else provided on On Demand is basically from a TV channel so there is some control over content. YouTube is a bit of a free for all and does have some unsavoury content that Sky could not control.

2) I believe many of the videos on YouTube use Adobe Flash which is available under Windows but not other platforms (like some tablets). I assume Flash is also not available on the Sky platform so some videos on YouTube could not be shown.

[Dudley]

Thanks VHG, that makes good sense and is probably right. With regard to Adobe Flash, I use YouTube quite a lot on my iPad for watching music videos (which would be great on TV rather than on my iPad because that does not play stereo unless you use headphones) although I don't come across much (if any) content that won't play on the iPad these days and I wondered if they had overcome that problem in some way. It used to happen frequently.