Amperage: 1.12A - *Note on the amperage. A device will only draw as much as it is capable of, so as long as your power adapter is a minimum of 1.12A it will work with no issues.Most USB phone chargers are 5V 2A. Who doesn't have about 70 of these lying around the house somewhere? Audio quality remains as good as ever, although that didn’t need improvement as badly as picture quality did. It isn’t as good, it must be said, as if you were to connect a decent dedicated soundbar, such as the Sonos Beam 2, but better than you’ll get with most TVs at around the price of Sky Glass.Indeed, Sky Glass plays host to a full 3.1.2 Dolby Atmos-compatible audio system. Four drivers are housed in the “soundbar” part of the TV – one centre speaker, one 120mm bass woofer and two stereo drivers – and there’s a pair of upward-firing Atmos speakers in the top corners of the TV set to deliver Atmos’ height effects.

I eventually managed to connect it to my home Wi-Fi using the TV’s WPS button and the same on my Devolo Magic Powerline adapter. If you come across the same issue, you’ll have to (rather counterintuitively) select the “I have Sky Broadband” option, as the “third-party broadband” connection option doesn’t give you the choice of using WPS. Sky Glass is a big product for the UK satellite TV giant. Not only is it the first TV the company has built, it’s also the first time Sky has produced a streaming-only product without compromising streaming quality and features. What Sky is pushing quite strongly is voice control and on Sky Glass, it’s built into the TV as well as the remote control. Indeed, using a far-field microphone array, Glass can detect the wake phrase “Hello Sky” and act on your instructions without you having to touch the remote control. Colour performance while viewing standard dynamic range content (SDR) using Movie mode colour proved decent, with Sky Glass covering 95.1% of the Rec.709 colour gamut when measured using our colorimeter and the Calman colour calibration software.

Sky’s first TV marries 4K streaming with decent audio output and now – thanks to updates – good picture quality, too

Polarity: Positive on the inside and negative on the outside. This is pretty standard (as they tend not to put the positive charge on the outer exposed area of the cable), and also it is supposed to be the default with USB power supplies. Also the 99% of the time connecting the wrong polarity for a very short period of time will cause no issues at this low voltage/amp, however I CANNOT say without fail it is 100% safe to try if your adapter is not clearly marked with the above symbol. If you have a volt meter you may want to test beforehand. It’s also now possible to create personalised playlists – one for each of the family, for instance. This doesn’t work quite as well as proper profiles as your recommendations can still get polluted with other household members’ preferences but it works well within its limitations. Sky Glass: Key specifications If you’re looking for a new TV now, however, and the idea of dishless Sky TV appeals, then Sky Glass is an attractive option. At the end of 2022, Sky announced a firmware update for all Glass TVs that it said would improve picture quality. As such, we’ve retested the TV and have updated our findings below. It still isn’t quite the best TV you’ll find for the money but HDR performance is now far better and colour accuracy is excellent across the board. As a result, we’ve upgraded Sky Glass to a four star rating with a Recommended award. This is an updated version of our original Sky Glass review, in which we awarded the TV three stars. After a series of updates to the television’s user interface and picture quality, we’ve upped the star rating and added a well-deserved Recommended award.

Home theatre enthusiasts will still be served best by opting for an OLED TV like the Sony A80J and combining that with either Sky Q or Sky Stream and a more potent sound system. One thing you might want to disable, however, is the TV’s motion control sensor, which it uses to turn on the TV when you walk into the room. This might sound like a clever feature but you don’t always want the TV to switch on when you walk into the room, especially with energy prices so high. I also found that, if I left the door open to the room it was in, it would also turn on when I walked past. That’s not ideal.

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For testing colour accuracy in SDR, we tested a number of modes and found Movie mode best for overall colour performance with an average Delta E of 0.8 – right up there with some of the best TVs we’ve tested. There are four modes available that affect image quality. Entertainment and Movie, look no different to my eyes, Sport switches you to a rather cooler colour temperature, while Vivid delivers a similar white point and more saturated colour-balance. Alas, there’s low-latency Game mode but you do get a couple of audio-centric modes – Music and Party – to play with, which do nothing to affect the picture but instead provide preset audio settings. After a false start, it’s finally beginning to deliver on its promise. Sky Glass still can’t quite compete with Sky Q for content and versatility, or standalone TVs and soundbars for image and audio quality, but improvements to the user interface and, most importantly, picture quality since launch have elevated it from also-ran to a genuinely attractive alternative. Despite all of those drivers, however, and the additional up-firing Atmos speakers, the surround-sound effect is limited. I wasn’t overly impressed with the way Sky Glass delivers bass, either; even with the Bass Boost option toggled on in the settings, there’s very little low-end thump and rumble.

The TV’s coverage of the DCI-P3 colour gamut is now 79%, which is better but still not great. However the biggest improvements are to be seen in peak brightness. With Custom mode selected and local dimming enabled we saw peak brightness reach 804cd/m2 with a 25% patch of white in the centre of the screen and a still respectable 704cd/m2 with the standard 10% patch displayed, up from 439cd/m2 at launch. It’s important to note that Sky Glass does not record TV to local storage like Sky Q. Instead, users add the content they want to watch later to their “Playlist”, where it becomes accessible depending on the restrictions of the streaming/catchup service it first appeared on. Sky Glass isn’t the only dishless Sky TV product. Since it was first launched, Sky Stream has appeared, offering the same content and user experience but without the TV attached. If you already have a decent mid-range TV and care about picture quality, this is the Sky streaming TV product you should go for. Setup is as simple as plugging it in and connecting it to your home Wi-Fi (or hooking up via Ethernet if your router happens to be close by). Unlike Sky Q, Sky Glass doesn’t set up its own wireless network; it simply connects just like any wireless device. The beauty of this is that, as long as your Wi-Fi signal is strong enough – and your broadband connection robust enough – the only cable you need to have running to the TV is the mains cable.

For those who can’t or don’t want to install a dish, Sky Glass is a far better option than Now, delivering all that exclusive Sky content in optimum 4K resolution. And now that image quality is fully up to snuff, you no longer have to worry about rival TVs offering significantly better output for the same or less.