Sky Player on PS3 'may happen in future' says Sky

NewsPublish Date 30/10/2009 - 11:30am GMT

'Is technically possible'.

Sky Player, launched this week on the Xbox 360, may come to the PS3, according to Sky.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com, Sky's director of On Demand Griff Parry said: "It [Sky Player on PS3] may very well happen in the future."

The battle lines have been drawn in the war for console-owning TV watchers.

Sony's PS3 currently offers access to the BBC's iPlayer for free. The Sky Player is available to Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers who also have a Sky subscription.

When asked if Sky was actively trying to make available the Sky Player on PS3, Parry replied: "I can talk generally about our desire to extend to any device that supports a good quality experience to project the content. The PS3 is clearly a device where that is possible. And so it may very well happen in the future. Having said that, we're very happy to be working with Xbox for the time being."

What say you PS3 owners? Would you like to see the Sky Player come to your console? Let us know in the comments section below.

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weezy-92

briiiiiiiiiiiing it

Posted 19:33 on 01 November 2009

Gordo01

ITS THE PRICE, i hate virgin but im not allowed a sat dish. i love movies and sport, when i seen it would cost me £40 a month its like OMG. a rip off, i would be cheaper getting sky world as i would get more for my money. SKY + etc. but i cant damn building

Posted 22:16 on 31 October 2009

El-Dev@ dudester

No idea, didn't check to see.

Posted 17:53 on 31 October 2009

dudester

is the party chat thing for football matches going yet El Dev?

Posted 17:40 on 31 October 2009

El-Dev

Watched most of the Arsenal match on it today, it wasn't that bad. Had to buffer a couple of times and there was a few minutes delay between the TV feed and the 360 feed but no major complaints. Quality was like watching a good internet feed.

Posted 17:09 on 31 October 2009

dudester

It was a technical issue in that technically no bugger could connect to the sky servers.

Posted 16:59 on 31 October 2009

fps_d0minat0r

you have to pay for it.

thats why they took it off XBL......because no-one bought it lol.

i think their re-considering their prices since xbox users already pay £40 yearly for XBL.

technical issue.......yh right....

Posted 14:58 on 31 October 2009

David-Macphail

To be honest i don't care either way. I've never used the BBC Iplayer on my PS3 and probably wouldn't use a Sky Player either.

Posted 01:23 on 31 October 2009

pblive

All of them work on PS3, or should, through the browser. Since getting rid of Sky and stopping giving them stupid amounts of money I've been far happier with Freesat HD instead and the online services from the main channels if I need to catch up anything that I didn't already record.

There's too much on Freesat for me to watch without paying for anything else.

Posted 14:08 on 30 October 2009