Sky Stream has arrived in Ireland

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

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.

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

I have to say I’m put off subscribing for Sky Stream by the phenomenally irritating TV Ad currently running for the service.

It’s really not though

For a streaming box it’s perfect

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

Apart from cost, what drawbacks does SkyQ have ?

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.

That TV ad has to be turning people off!

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.

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.

How do you tune in / access the channels? Any pictures?

Yeah if you’re in the home page and you go down to “apps and inputs”, you’ll see an aerial icon.