Sky Glass / Stream

[Fuctifano]

Does anyone use either of these services and are they any good? 

We're moving in the next few weeks and are already with Sky for TV and Broadband. We can put a dish up at the new place, even though it's a new build, but wondering if this will be better going forward as it'll be full fibre. 

My main worries are that the steadiness of the broadband if its being used for TV, work and gaming by various family members at same time.

Also when watching sports I hate being 2 minutes behind live and this was part of the reason I gave up on IPTV services a few years ago. I'm hoping with the passage of time the legal streaming stuff will be much closer to the satellite pictures? 

Edited August 26 by Fuctifano

[ArabFC]

Literally moved into a new place and just got a Sky Stream for convenience. I do have good broadband but the service seems spot on thus far.

Issue with Sky Glass imho, is that you're paying for a shit tv, when there's much better options out there. 

[Fuctifano]

2 minutes ago, ArabFC said:

Literally moved into a new place and just got a Sky Stream for convenience. I do have good broadband but the service seems spot on thus far.

Issue with Sky Glass imho, is that you're paying for a shit tv, when there's much better options out there. 

Yeah, think we'd go down the stream road rather than glass if it came to it, more flexibility with actual TV set. 

[NorthernLights]

We almost got Sky Stream a couple of weeks ago to replace our ageing Sky+ box. However we were going to have to pay a £40 "setup fee" and our monthly cost would still be practically the same as the Sky+ box so we ditched them and are moving to Virgin.

Edited August 26 by NorthernLights

[ArabFC]

11 minutes ago, NorthernLights said:

We almost got Sky Stream a couple of weeks ago to replace our ageing Sky+ box. However we were going to have to pay a £40 "setup fee" and our monthly cost would still be practically the same as the Sky+ box so we ditched them and are moving to Virgin.

When I moved, I just cancelled Sky and then setup a new account as a 'new' customer - no setup charges.

Edited August 26 by ArabFC

[DrewDon]

I have had Sky Glass since a few months before Sky released Stream (which was the middle of 2022, I think).

Overall, it's fine and there was an element of convenience to the purchase as I was moving into a new place. 

When watching a game, I have occasionally been caught out by folk messaging on WhatsApp about a goal or another development. My experience has it at about 10-15 seconds behind someone watching on satellite, which isn't ideal but I have kind of got used to it. 

All things being equal, and I haven't looked into the pricing much, I would probably go with Stream if purchasing now and get a better TV set for probably slightly less outlay.

[RiG]

We're in a similar position. One thing I don't like about the stream option is there's no way to record stuff which is mostly fine as a lot of stuff is on catch up but for things like the NFL highlights these aren't always available on catch up and recording them has been the best option in the past. 

[Homer Thompson]

4 hours ago, RiG said:

We're in a similar position. One thing I don't like about the stream option is there's no way to record stuff which is mostly fine as a lot of stuff is on catch up but for things like the NFL highlights these aren't always available on catch up and recording them has been the best option in the past. 

This is exactly what I was going to say. 

Seems a little pointless to be honest. If something is on catch up why would I need to bother "saving" it on Stream. It literally just adds a bookmark to the catch up service and, as Rig says, if it's not on catch up you're screwed. Or if it expires before you watch it, it's gone. 

I won't be moving to their streaming until they prise the dish out of my cold, dead hands (or until they turn it off, whichever comes first) 

Slightly different subject but the satellite Sky use is coming to its end of life in the next few years. Lots of rumours about what they're going to do. End of life doesn't mean it will just switch off of course but presumably sky will eventually move away from the dish to streaming 

Edited August 27 by Homer Thompson

[jimmy boo]

6 hours ago, Homer Thompson said:

This is exactly what I was going to say. 

Seems a little pointless to be honest. If something is on catch up why would I need to bother "saving" it on Stream. It literally just adds a bookmark to the catch up service and, as Rig says, if it's not on catch up you're screwed. Or if it expires before you watch it, it's gone. 

I won't be moving to their streaming until they prise the dish out of my cold, dead hands (or until they turn it off, whichever comes first) 

Slightly different subject but the satellite Sky use is coming to its end of life in the next few years. Lots of rumours about what they're going to do. End of life doesn't mean it will just switch off of course but presumably sky will eventually move away from the dish to streaming 

I'm sure I read somewhere recently that the satellites will go out of service by 2030 so like you I will stick with the dish until then. Even then I can't see all their customers being able or willing to switch to fibre broadband so they might change their plans rather than risk losing loads of subscribers. I don't mind the 60-90 second delay on iptv as i've got used to it over the years.

[Loki]

I have Sky Glass in my room and Sky Stream in my living room.  Our block of flats needs some satellite upgrade so Sky Q was never an option.  The service is good and I am ahead of my friends that use IPTV, and about 30s behind the game on a betting site.  To be the telly outright would not be value for money as you will get a far better telly for the same price.  But you if you time it right you practically get the TV for free, I got Sports, Entertainment and Netflix plus the 43" model for £34 a month for the first six months, and now it's £54 a month.  I was £25 a month for Sports and Entertainment on Now, and whatever Netflix was.

The only drawbacks have been covered, you aren't recording anything, so if it is not on catch up you won't be seeing it.  Also all the channels aren't there.  Premier Sports isn't on the platform.

[Soapy FFC]

On 27/08/2024 at 14:05, Homer Thompson said:

This is exactly what I was going to say. 

Seems a little pointless to be honest. If something is on catch up why would I need to bother "saving" it on Stream. It literally just adds a bookmark to the catch up service and, as Rig says, if it's not on catch up you're screwed. Or if it expires before you watch it, it's gone. 

I won't be moving to their streaming until they prise the dish out of my cold, dead hands (or until they turn it off, whichever comes first) 

Slightly different subject but the satellite Sky use is coming to its end of life in the next few years. Lots of rumours about what they're going to do. End of life doesn't mean it will just switch off of course but presumably sky will eventually move away from the dish to streaming 

I'm with you on this one. I'm old school, and not a fan of everything, be it TV or telephone, being purely internet based. You have very little control over it, and you have one point of failure that takes everything out.

[Fuctifano]

Ended up going for the dish as they were able to put it on the same side wall as TV socket so pretty much one cable running up side of house. 

[eindhovendee]

On 27/08/2024 at 20:18, jimmy boo said:

I'm sure I read somewhere recently that the satellites will go out of service by 2030 so like you I will stick with the dish until then. Even then I can't see all their customers being able or willing to switch to fibre broadband so they might change their plans rather than risk losing loads of subscribers. I don't mind the 60-90 second delay on iptv as i've got used to it over the years.

Openreach's plans are to switch the old copper network off by Dec 26 (won't happen) and have everyone on FTTP by then.

If we are all on full fibre, streaming will become the only option which is why its already difficult to order Sky Q as a new customer.

It means no satellite or satellite dish/install engineers needed so a lot less costs for Sky.

Also means that huge blocks of older flats/multi stories especially in London will be able to get streaming, at the moment they need a communal dish and generally have shit broadband speeds.

Edited Saturday at 12:39 by eindhovendee
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[Melanius Mullarkey]

I changed from VLTV to Sky (Glass) earlier this year and I have to say the User Interface was obviously designed by the f**king halfwitted imbecile.