I was just browsing the Sky Ireland website and it has a banner for Sky Stream. It states to phone Sky for further information
Thanks, I was eventually able to order using Safari for macOS. Firefox and Chrome both threw the same error.
Yep I ordered 2 yesterday no problems, 1 for my house 1 for my parents house. Apart from having to use 2 separate email addresses everything was fine. Google chrome on an android phone I used.
Yup, ordered mine yesterday around 2pm, DPD delivered it this morning.
Anyone ordered Sky Stream lately? Having issues with their website, get past the multi room option and then get a "Sorry, we're having technical difficulties" message.
Have tried different browsers, private browsing mode, and other internet connections - same issue.
BBC on demand on sky is go good as it does not have many programs. Would not replace being able to record the bbc channels. What happen with movies and it you fall behind on a programs do you only have the same 30 day to watch before it is removed.
It seems a bit hit and miss with bbc. You can add anything from bbc to the playlist, but so far only match of the day and motd2 have been viewable in the playlist. I’m not sure why. I had heard beforehand that nothing from bbc would work on playlist, so was surprised when those 2 do.
Can somebody who has Sky Stream confirm what the story is with BBC?
e.g Imiss a show that aired at 8pm last night.....Can I get it on Sky stream in Ireland today?
Thanks
I suppose it depends on the viewing habits within the home. If you depend on the ability to reliably record and watch later, stick with a traditional Sky Q service or similar. If you are comfortable with streaming most of your content already and rarely record live TV, consider Sky Stream.
Ok fair enough. So I can still record/link a premier league game in the afternoon and watch it in the evening when the kids are down to bed?
MOTD is available on BBC on demand on sky q now, so I'd imagine same on sky stream
To describe it more in practical functionality terms, how it works as I understand is that there’s a “playlist” feature. Instead of recording you add programmes from the EPG to a playlist. On channels with catch up services, all that does is create a link to the relevant programme in the catch up, once it’s aired. You can’t record these channels. For channels without catch up (and Sky’s own branded channels) you can record but it’s a cloud recording that you are accessing really. There’s some programmes you can’t record at all. The BBC channels are especially problematic because while there is catch up it’s limited so for example you can’t watch Match of the Day other than the live broadcast (or the Sunday morning repeat while that is airing).
Sky Stream works solely down the internet, Sky Q is a hybrid of internet and satellite signal but most of your live TV would be from the satellite signal. If you want to record something on Sky Q, the box essentially records what's on the satellite stream at the allocated time. If internet streams were to be used like satellite streams that would put too much pressure on the network and therefore it's not possible to have an "always on" Internet stream the same way as a satellite feed. That's why catch up is by online on demand only.
Not sure I quite understand the PVR functionality con. My contract is ending in November which is coincidently the same time we’re moving into our new house. We currently have Sky Q. If I wanted to watch a match or an episode of something aired in the last day, I’d have recorded it on Sky Q. What does Sky Stream offer? Will I not be able to watch a match that evening if aired in the afternoon?
I'm using Now TV since 2019. I have 4 apple tv boxes and firestick. I also have 500meg fibre bb.
Last weekend I was watching the live football on my own as rest family were away offline and the matches streams paused as if the streams were struggling up with demand.
If this happens again I'll consider an alternative or even go back to satellite.
The Now TV app on Apple TV is meant to have limited PVR features - you should be in theory able to pause and rewind live tv for up to 30 mins - my experience is that it’s hit and miss as to whether it works on any given occasion.
All streaming services of live TV will do this. It’s managed by the provider to deliver an uninterrupted stream to everyone. It can certainly vary and there’s no guarantee it won’t be a minute or so.
I noticed on the Now TV app on Apple TV there’s an option to jump forward if you are a little behind (due to pausing it maybe).
Now TV is odd. Using the app on my TV the delays is 30 seconds or so while using my phone it's 90 seconds. Both connected to the same internet connection.
Would the delay on this be similar to Now? Haven’t used Now in a while but in the middle of a move at the moment so have it subbed for the football and noticed it was about 2 minutes behind notifications I was getting on Live Score when I was watching the matches over the weekend.
I know some delay is inevitable with streaming but 2 minutes was more than expected. Internet is 500/50 so unlikely to be the cause.
Torn between this and regular Sky. Pros being no dish/install and if you wanted you could move it to a different TV if you don’t have multiple pucks.
Cons would be delays, no access to full On Demand in lieu of recording and in the unlikely event of internet going down the TV is down too.
Oh seems they are in playlist now for today. Must be it takes an hour or 2 to be there in playlist.
I have switched from VM to this. The biggest problem so far is Playlist is 1 day behind, which is ok for things like home and away, 6 o’clock show etc as u can just watch them a day later. But I was very used to recording the vm news at 5:30 and watching it when I get in, but watching something like that a day later would be a bit silly. Anyone know if there is a way to rewatch something from few hrs ago that isn’t the current pgm??
I was considering switching from Q to Stream purely because the Q mini boxes can't do 4k or Atmos.
But it sounds like the service is just not quite there yet for Live TV.
I see, sounds good if it happened. Is this what normally occurs? Cheers
I'm sure when the 6 months offer expired on SS Extra you would get same offer again
Not entirely sure, think it's probably because I have my broadband with them.
How did you get the base package for €20? Showing as €30 for me.
I nearly pulled the trigger on sky stream. €45 for entertainment and the two sport packages. But annoyingly I noticed the sports extra is only for 6 months so I'll stick with Now for now!
It has more,has everything Now has but also incorporates all the players for their content too
would this have the same on demand element as Now?
Yes, that has been my experience too. Appear to be able to pause. Have not seen any recording options. The device is just a puck, it is pretty small. I doubt there is any storage on it. They did say that you have to pay for multi-room BUT you get access to Sky Go which you can use on other devices so technically, I can watch on Sky Go in a different room or just move the puck since it is small. From what I can see with Sky Go, some shows can be downloaded rather than recorded but not every show.
Don't have the sports channels yet but on all the channels I have when you put a channel on an option comes
up to watch from the start even if its been on a while
