I was just browsing the Sky Ireland website and it has a banner for Sky Stream. It states to phone Sky for further information
Strange one today
Searched for 'Frasier' using voice search, got the usual results, showing 'old' Frasier on C4 and 'new' Frasier on Paramount.
Selected 'old' Frasier, and it opened up the usual screen, with correct episode details, but with a 'Paramount+' logo at the top.
Selected that episode, and it brought me into the Paramount sign-on.
This previously worked for me without any issues, and would have played the 'old' Frasier using the 4Player.
I was able to come down to the list of seasons and episodes, and select from there, and it worked normally.
Have had stream for 3 weeks noW
no issues with it, MOTD has been available on Sunday morning fairly consistently
as someone who had Vodafone tv with a now tv sub this is a much easier option, kept the Vodafone BB too
It’s a streaming box with the option for sky tv, and it does that very well
Is it possible to get into the VM player on Sky Stream? I can't find their recent drama "The Head on Him" through the normal search
I have had stream for the same length of time. I don't like it at all - primarily as I want to see MOTD on a Saturday night after I get home. I can't do that - same with a match I had "recorded" last week. Couldn't see that either. I used to record a couple of soaps and it was easy to find them and watch them back. It's not easy anymore to find the episode you want. I'm thinking of going back to Virgin.
I don't think so as I was looking for the VM player last week and it's not there.
ya get that, but it's not a record function,
Its a playlist, so if its a sky program great it'll be available on replay. If its not sky (such as MOTD) they are reliant on the service to add it to their service and make it available for Ireland.
Virgin(i;m fairly sure) are the same now for new customers, its a streaming box with the same limitations
Definitely a backward step and not what I want.
I have to say I’m put off subscribing for Sky Stream by the phenomenally irritating TV Ad currently running for the service.
Sky stream is also **** which is off putting 😄
It’s really not though
For a streaming box it’s perfect
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Sorry just offering my opinion as previously stated in this thread as I had sky stream and sky q and found them both terrible. Not trying to offend anyone
It really is. If you're comparing it with Sky Q, then it's obviously not in the same league, but Sky Q has plenty of drawbacks too.
Sky Stream is absolutely light years ahead of Eir TV and based on what I've seen of Vodafone's new box, it's not at the races either.
Apart from cost, what drawbacks does SkyQ have ?
You need a dish, your box has to be wired to the dish, the box is pretty chunky.
For me, it was needing to be wired up and thus limiting where you can place your TV
So what do you now use instead?? Curious
Just back to using a dodgy stick for now. Got the whole 4k pack with sky stream and had constant issues with the multiroom boxes losing connection and having to be reset. The UI was terrible to try navigate and the lack of a proper functioning catch up option was the killer. Sky then told me a Q subscription would solve all my problems so I paid for that to be installed again with the 4k multiroom and that was just as bad as the stream with near identical issues. To make matters worse I then had to lodge 2 complaints to get it removed as they incorrectly told me there was no cooling off period and tried billing me cancellation charges. I don't see any other options on the market so am stuck with the IPTV for now. Sky wasn't suitable for my needs but I understand it's perfect for other people's
One pucking puck seemed to reset tonight and I had to reconnect to the broadband. Not a huge issue in itself, but to reenter my strong 16 character password, I had to choose each character from a huge wheel, instead of the usual on screen keyboard.
Took me feckin ages.
I've to talk to Sky on behalf of a friend shortly.
They have DSL BB (slow speeds though) and Sky through a satellite dish. It's expensive - about €110 p/m and doesn't include Sports or Movies.
It seems Fibre BB is available now in the area, so going to Sky Stream with fast BB speed looks like a no brainer. €50 p/m.
The only problem I can see is that Sky Stream is for new customers only. I wonder will they play ball?
That TV ad has to be turning people off!
If the price they will be paying for stream is similar to what they are already paying for Q I don't see any reason sky wouldn't be happy to switch them over
Makes sense from Sky's point of view to push this, they don't have to pay any engineers then.
But when you are relying on the RTE player to do its job, licensing rights from the likes of Virgin and BBC which means not all content is available on catch up, then it's not going to work for a lot of people without the recording function. Lots of ads on Catch Up players too, which will force people to pay the ad skipping fee.
Vodafone forced me into taking their stream box when renewing my contract and it's god awful, out of contract in October this year, is Sky stream a better alternative? Can't get Sky Q where I live.
For me sky stream has been fairly good for the price it is. If you can get over the negatives (playlist is not as reliable as dvr, almost all of bbc will not be available on playlist, even some of other channels us erratic on it) and they are outweighed by positives (broadband and tv quality is good, all of the sky tv is available, different streaming apps like Netflix, Paramount, Disbcovrry is provided as part of package, if u gave movies u get 2 Vue cinema tkts a month, sky customer service is great compared to others) then it is worth it. I don’t have multi room but so far I’ve had no issues apart from not being able to watch some of the programs I used to record before.
Btw I hadn’t noticed it before but you can tune in Saorview channels on the Stream box.
Not sure what value this adds but the option is there
That shouldn’t be possible, there’s no DTT tuner in the Sky Stream puck?
Sky Glass does have one mind.
There must have been a software update to enable it, because tonight was the first time I saw the aerial icon, but I 100% have all the Saorview channels tuned in on my Sky Stream box right now.
How do you tune in / access the channels? Any pictures?
Hmm, to correct my earlier post apparently it does and always had a DTT tuner, and an aerial input on the rear, to meet regulatory requirements in Italy.
Apparently it’s been switched off until now.
Yeah if you’re in the home page and you go down to “apps and inputs”, you’ll see an aerial icon.
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