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Little-known Sky remote trick lets you skip boring TV ads instantly and get right back to your show
There's another very handy Sky remote trick worth trying
AN easy-to-miss Sky TV trick lets you skip right past those boring ads.
It's built right into your Sky TV remote – but it's not the most obvious.
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Many Sky TV remotes now have voice controls built in.
This has a long list of benefits, including the ability to quickly launch apps or find specific channels.
But it also lets you quickly control playback on your TV.
It's not wildly useful if you're watching live, but it has a big benefit if you're viewing pre-recorded content.
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That's because you can ask it to skip a certain amount of time.
So you could say "skip three minutes" and you'd shoot forward through the TV show.
It's an extremely easy way to skip an entire ad break without having to manually fast-forward.
You can also skip to a specific time in a show too, all with a voice command.
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Using the Sky voice controls are really easy too.
First, check to see if your Sky remote has a microphone button: that means it can accept voice commands.
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Now hold the Sky remote in front of you, then press and hold the microphone button.
The actual microphone itself is located just below the Sky button, so that's where you'll want to speak into.
Once you're done speaking, let go of the voice button and your request will be processed.
You can say things in several ways, so you could say "skip three minutes", "fast forward two minutes", "skip ahead by four minutes", and so on.
HOW TO SEARCH WITH SKY VOICE REMOTE
Here are some easy commands to try out...
Search for specified movie - "[Movie title]"
Search for specified programme - "[Programme title]"
Search for content which stars specified actor - "[Actor name]"
Search for content directed by specified director - "[Director name]"
Search for movies within specified genre - "[Movie genre]"
Search for sport content within specified genre. Genres include football, F1, Rugby Union, Cricket, and Rugby League - "[Sport genre]"
Search specific channel - "[Channel name]"
Search for movies with a specific star rating - "[x] star movies" "movies rated [x] stars"
Search for content with specified picture format. Picture format includes SD, HD, and Ultra HD - "[Picture format]"
Search for sports, teams or competitions – “[Sport Name]”, “[Team Name]”, “[Competition Name]”
Rewinding also works the same way, although it's less useful.
Sky also recommends trying out the following tricks:
- Search for a specific show, actor, movie or sporting event ("Game of Thrones" or "Tom Hanks")
- Find a movie by using a famous quote from the film ("May the Force be with you")
- Change channels ("Go to Sky One")
- Play recordings and downloads ("Play Chernobyl")
- Launch apps ("Open Netflix)
- Change accessibility settings ("Turn on Subtitles")
Similarly, if you've found yourself with subtitles turned on by accident, you can quickly switch them off with a simple voice command.
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SEARCH WITH MOVIE QUOTES
Searching for content with iconic movie or TV quotes is one of the best uses for Sky's voice remote.
That's because you can quickly find a famous film that you're thinking of, even if you can't remember its name.
Here's a list of some of the quotes that work:
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- 42nd Street “Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!”
- A Few Good Men “You can't handle the truth!”
- A League Of Their Own “There's no crying in baseball!”
- A Streetcar Named Desire “Stella! Hey, Stella!” “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
- Airplane! "Surely you can't be serious!” “I am serious… and don't call me Shirley.”
- All About Eve “Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.”
- Animal Crackers “How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.”
- Annie Hall “La-dee-da, la-dee-da"
- Apocalypse Now “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
- Apollo 13 “Houston, we have a problem.” “Houston, we've had a problem” "Houston, we've had a problem.”
- Auntie Mame “Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!”
- Avengers: Endgame "I need three gaziliion heroes", "I need four gazillion heroes", "I need five gazillion heroes", "Bring me Mjölnir"
- Beyond The Forest “What a dump.”
- Bonnie And Clyde “We rob banks.”
- Bumblebee "Show me four broken toys"
- Casablanca “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” “Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.” “Round up the usual suspects.” “We’ll always have Paris.” “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
- Chinatown "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.”
- Citizen Kane “Rosebud.”
- Cool Hand Luke “What we've got here is failure to communicate.”
- Dead Poets Society “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
- Die Hard "Yippee-ki-yay"
- Die Hard "Now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho!"
- Dirty Dancing “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
- Dirty Harry “You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?” “Do you feel lucky, punk?”
- Dog Day Afternoon “Attica! Attica!”
- Dr. Strangelove “Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!”
- Dracula “Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial “E.T. phone home.”
- Field Of Dreams “If you build it, he will come.” “If you build it, they
- Frankenstein “It's alive! It's alive!”
- Funny Girl “Hello, gorgeous.”
- Game of Thrones “winter is coming”
- Gone With The Wind “Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”
- Grand Hotel “I want to be alone.”
- Incredibles 2 “we need elastigirl”, “you have powers”
- Jaws “You're gonna need a bigger boat.”
- Jerry Maguire “Show me the money!” “You had me at hello."
- Jingle all the way "Jingle all the way"
- Knute Rockne All American “Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.”
- Lampoon'S Animal House “Toga! Toga!” “Bluto.”
- Little Caesa “Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?”
- Love Actually “show me christmas favourites”
- Love Story “Love means never having to say you're sorry.”
- Marathon Man “Is it safe?”
- Mary Poppins Returns "We need the world's most famous nanny"
- Mary, Queen of Scots "Two quarrelling queens"
- Mean Girls “on Wednesday we wear pink”
- Midnight Cowboy “I'm walking here! I'm walking here!” “Ratso.”
- Mommie Dearest “No wire hangers, ever!”
- Moonstruck “Snap out of it!”
- Muppet Christmas Carol "Bah Humbug!"
- Network “I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!”
- Now, Voyager “Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.”
- On The Waterfront “You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.”
- Poltergeist “They're here!”
- Psycho “A boy's best friend is his mother.”
- Rocky "Yo, Adrian!”
- Scarface “Say ‘hello’ to my little friend!”
- Shane “Shane. Shane. Come back!”
- She Done Him Wrong “Why don't you come up sometime and see me?” “Why don't you come up and see me sometime.”
- Some Like It Hot “Well, nobody's perfect.”
- Sons Of The Desert "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!”
- Soylent Green “Soylent Green is people!”
- Star Wars “May the Force be with you.”
- Sudden Impact “Go ahead, make my day.”
- Sunset Boulevard “I am big! It's the pictures that got small.” “I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.” “All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.”
- Taxi Driver “You talking to me?”
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day “Hasta la vista, baby.”
- The Godfather II “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
- The Graduate “Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?”
- The Grinch "You're a mean one, Mr Grinch"
- The Grinch "Take me to Whoville!"
- The Jazz Singer “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!”
- The Lego Movie 2 "Two worlds colliding", "Three duplo aliens!", "Three lego aliens!"
- The Lord Of The Rings: Two Towers “My precious.”
- The Maltese Falcon “The stuff that dreams are made of.”
- The Pride Of The Yankees “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”
- The Sixth Sense “I see dead people.”
- The Terminator “I'll be back.”
- The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre “Gold hat.”
- The Wizard Of Oz “I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!”
- Titanic “I'm the king of the world!”
- Top Gun “I feel the need - the need for speed!” “Goose.”
- Wall Street “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
- When Harry Met Sally “I'll have what she's having.”
- White Heat “Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” “Cody.”
- Yankee Doodle Dandy “My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you."
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It's worth noting that a movie will only appear for its quote if the film is currently available in Sky's library.
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