Tom B
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- Lancashire
Team, I am always surprised by the knowledge and experience of all sorts of subjects here.
We are considering Sky Stream TV.
We currently have Sky+ HD Originals with Legacy (free) F1 and are considering upgrading to Sky Stream.
We have full fibre 500mbit internet which is stable, the sky stream doberry would plug in with an ethernet cable just as the HD box does so no wifi worries.
We only have one main TV, its a 14year old HD 37" we have no plans to upgrade it until it fails, and even then we wouldn't go larger.
We currently have a magic eye thing and send the Sky+ to the bedroom TV via a coax, but it rarely gets used so wouldn't want "additional rooms" from sky.
I might consider buying a HDMI Splitter and Sender, but we rarely use the bedroom TV and when we do its usually via Chromecast.
We dont have any funky audio stuff.
The reason we have never upgraded from Sky+ to anything else is because we get the free legacy F1 package. It is the only sports we (I) are interested in, its the only sports we watch or have any desire to watch. However I don't really want to pay £30 a month for it and sports we have no interest in watching.
We are happy with the originals packages, we also have Netflix and it would be nice to roll them together.
The missus has about 15 or so films that she has bought "to keep" on Sky.
The motivation for upgrading is that the price just keeps on rising and were paying about £60 a month with Netflix a further £11 now which I think is ridiculous. (Mrs B moans heartily about the £15 a month TV licence but seems content to pay Sky £50 ***shakes head*** - if it was down to me we wouldn't have sky)
I was all set to do a deal for £50 for Sky Stream. But then I was a bit put off by some of the real life reviews.
Notably that you cant record in the traditional sense and everything comes from the cloud. Can anyone advise if EVERYTHING is on the cloud?
Quite often we might put something on to record, then start playback from the beginning when programme is still running. Is it possible to join programmes showing live from the beginning with stream or do you have to wait for it to finish going out then play it like with traditional catch up?
How quickly after going out are programmes available to stream?
Any other thoughts on Stream?
Sky wont do any new deals on HD allowing me to keep the legacy F1 (which is the only bit of sky I watch) and save £££. I suppose Sky Q is the obvious upgrade, but I don't really want to faff about replacing the dish (I'd love to scrap it) it's location means that sky wont touch it and want to relocate it and I believe sky have launched their last satellite and will be moving to a streaming platform.
We are considering Sky Stream TV.
We currently have Sky+ HD Originals with Legacy (free) F1 and are considering upgrading to Sky Stream.
We have full fibre 500mbit internet which is stable, the sky stream doberry would plug in with an ethernet cable just as the HD box does so no wifi worries.
We only have one main TV, its a 14year old HD 37" we have no plans to upgrade it until it fails, and even then we wouldn't go larger.
We currently have a magic eye thing and send the Sky+ to the bedroom TV via a coax, but it rarely gets used so wouldn't want "additional rooms" from sky.
I might consider buying a HDMI Splitter and Sender, but we rarely use the bedroom TV and when we do its usually via Chromecast.
We dont have any funky audio stuff.
The reason we have never upgraded from Sky+ to anything else is because we get the free legacy F1 package. It is the only sports we (I) are interested in, its the only sports we watch or have any desire to watch. However I don't really want to pay £30 a month for it and sports we have no interest in watching.
We are happy with the originals packages, we also have Netflix and it would be nice to roll them together.
The missus has about 15 or so films that she has bought "to keep" on Sky.
The motivation for upgrading is that the price just keeps on rising and were paying about £60 a month with Netflix a further £11 now which I think is ridiculous. (Mrs B moans heartily about the £15 a month TV licence but seems content to pay Sky £50 ***shakes head*** - if it was down to me we wouldn't have sky)
I was all set to do a deal for £50 for Sky Stream. But then I was a bit put off by some of the real life reviews.
Notably that you cant record in the traditional sense and everything comes from the cloud. Can anyone advise if EVERYTHING is on the cloud?
Quite often we might put something on to record, then start playback from the beginning when programme is still running. Is it possible to join programmes showing live from the beginning with stream or do you have to wait for it to finish going out then play it like with traditional catch up?
How quickly after going out are programmes available to stream?
Any other thoughts on Stream?
Sky wont do any new deals on HD allowing me to keep the legacy F1 (which is the only bit of sky I watch) and save £££. I suppose Sky Q is the obvious upgrade, but I don't really want to faff about replacing the dish (I'd love to scrap it) it's location means that sky wont touch it and want to relocate it and I believe sky have launched their last satellite and will be moving to a streaming platform.
