Sky Go - laptop to TV probs

[RichA]

My Windows 10 laptop is connected to the TV via micro HDMI to standard HDMI.
On the laptop, the Masters coverage on Sky Go is perfectly smooth. Transfer the display to just the TV and it's like watching it at about 5 Hz refresh rate.
When I open chrome and watch a YouTube video on HD, it's perfect, so I know it's just Sky Go, not a hardware or driver issue.

Any suggestions please? I can't find any solutions online.

 

[jim8flog]

ON the Sky forum I was informed that you should not be able to watch sky go from your lap top to the TV via HDMI.

They way I overcome this is to have the cable in the Laptop disconnected until skygo is up and running then connect the HDMI cable.

It something about skygo software in the same way that you cannot cast the broadcast to a TV.

 

[Aztecs27]

ON the Sky forum I was informed that you should not be able to watch sky go from your lap top to the TV via HDMI.

They way I overcome this is to have the cable in the Laptop disconnected until skygo is up and running then connect the HDMI cable.

It something about skygo software in the same way that you cannot cast the broadcast to a TV.

exactly this.

Sky are sneaky and block it to stop people handing out their Skygo extra logins to family and friends and then they can essentially have sky on TV for free by plugging the laptop into the TV.

 

[PJ87]

I use sky go via my Xbox , straight to TV

It's fine from pc to TV normally

 

[RichA]

Thanks for the replies. It took an hour of trying every permutation of the settings but it's sorted. Perfect HD - laptop to TV.

 

[Aztecs27]

Thanks for the replies. It took an hour of trying every permutation of the settings but it's sorted. Perfect HD - laptop to TV.

Great news! I think we got it working once with a bit of faffing. They don’t make it easy though!

 

[USER1999]

I tried loads to get my laptop to show on the TV, but in the end bought a PlayStation and have it on there.

 

[Orikoru]

If you have a console (I have PS4) you can run Sky Go from that on the TV and it works fine.