XXMAN98
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Divide a 55-inch screen into four equal windows and each one has roughly the diagonal of a 27-inch TV. That's the maths behind Sky's new Your Multiview, which went live on Sky Q, Sky Glass and Sky Stream on the day the Premier League season started, and it lets you put four live sports feeds up at the same time.
The feature itself sounds well thought out. You can change the layout, choose which of the four audio feeds you hear, and punch any window straight to full screen when something happens. It sits behind the red button Sports Hub, which is usually only on the Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Football channels. Four matches at once, or a match plus a Grand Prix plus a golf major if that's your Sunday.
The bit nobody mentions is that broadcast graphics are designed for a full screen. Score bugs, clocks, subtitles and the lower thirds are all sized for someone watching the whole picture, and at quarter size on a normal living room set they get borderline. On a 65 you're at roughly 32-inch windows, which is fine. On a 43 in a bedroom it's decorative.
Nothing I read says whether the four streams run at full bitrate or scaled down versions, and that's the question I'd want answered before deciding whether this is genuinely usable or a party trick. If anyone here has it running already, how does a quarter window hold up on fast pans compared to the same match full screen?
The feature itself sounds well thought out. You can change the layout, choose which of the four audio feeds you hear, and punch any window straight to full screen when something happens. It sits behind the red button Sports Hub, which is usually only on the Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Football channels. Four matches at once, or a match plus a Grand Prix plus a golf major if that's your Sunday.
The bit nobody mentions is that broadcast graphics are designed for a full screen. Score bugs, clocks, subtitles and the lower thirds are all sized for someone watching the whole picture, and at quarter size on a normal living room set they get borderline. On a 65 you're at roughly 32-inch windows, which is fine. On a 43 in a bedroom it's decorative.
Nothing I read says whether the four streams run at full bitrate or scaled down versions, and that's the question I'd want answered before deciding whether this is genuinely usable or a party trick. If anyone here has it running already, how does a quarter window hold up on fast pans compared to the same match full screen?
