topic Re: Energy saving in Sky Stream

Energy saving

davidglen983 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:12:55 GMT

I thought with sky stream you could pause live tv for 45 minutes. But whenever I do pause it for any more than 5 minutes my box goes into an energy saving feature, and I lose where I was in my viewing. Particularly annoying when watching live sport. Any way around this?

Re: Energy saving

Stephen+Mourton — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:52:19 GMT

@davidglen983 I'm not sure where you heard about the 45 minute pause time. It should actually pause for what I believe is 10 minutes before switching off, it reminds you on screen for the last minute that it is about to turn off. If yours is going off within 5 minutes I think you should contact Sky.

Even so this is a very frustrating aspect of Stream and I have heard nothing but complaints about it and never heard anyone say it is a good idea. 10 minutes is ridiculous and not enough time to do much, 20 minutes would be much more realistic.

Re: Energy saving

davidglen983 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:55:23 GMT

Well it may have been 10 mins but felt more like 5 or 6. But this is good to know thanks.

just to take you up on the 45 mins, this is from sky's own website regarding sky stream, perhaps I'm reading it wrong but......

How it works

You can pause live TV and rewind on a TV channel on your Sky Stream puck for up to 45 minutes, by pressing the Play or Pause button on the Sky remote.

After the 45 minutes is up, the programme will then continue to play from the point you paused it.

Re: Energy saving

TimmyBGood — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:00:21 GMT

@davidglen983 wrote:

You can pause live TV and rewind on a TV channel on your Sky Stream puck for up to 45 minutes

'up to' 45 minutes does include ten minutes.

Given it's a fairly small fixed storage space of some tens of gigabytes on a chip rather than the capacious hard drives in the satellite boxes, the actual time limit will be based on content resolution and streaming bitrate.

Re: Energy saving

Bill051 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:27:46 GMT

I've just paused BBC4 for twenty minutes then restarted the program successfully. May be it's the settings on your TV.

Re: Energy saving

MarkGoldsmith — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:39:09 GMT

I actually did some thorough testing on this back about a year ago now pausing live TV.

After 9 minutes, the "please pick up you remote to prevent going into standby" message came up. On picking up the remote it reset the 10 minute timer. This worked twice then on the third occassion, when in theory 30 minutes of live TV would have been paused, it started automatically playing the paused content again.

Re: Energy saving

Bill051 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:59:14 GMT

Great Movies paused for 26 minutes and then resumed playing

Re: Energy saving

Stephen+Mourton — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:13:29 GMT

So what is going on?

Why are we all finding different times for the pausing? That doesn't sound right or sensible. Does anyone know the official line?

Re: Energy saving

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:14:40 GMT

@Stephen+Mourton wrote:
So what is going on?
Why are we all finding different times for the pausing? That doesn't sound right or sensible. Does anyone know the official line?

I assume it's to do with the quality of the stream and how much can be stored in memory. A higher quality stream would require more storage than a lower quality one.

Re: Energy saving

davidglen983 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:15:48 GMT

Thanks for all the answers guys. I was watching sky sports uhd so it's all starting to make sense now. Great to know what you've all said!!!

Re: Energy saving

TimmyBGood — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:19:44 GMT

@Stephen+Mourton wrote:

Why are we all finding different times for the pausing?

Because the megabytes per minute in the data stream will vary between individual items of content and from channel to channel.

Re: Energy saving

martswain — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:30:04 GMT

I got caught out with sport in UHD too, a very short pause compared with low resolution Judge Judy in the daytime, LOL.

Re: Energy saving

davidglen983 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:30:43 GMT

Your house sounds just like mine.😂

Re: Energy saving

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:34:25 GMT

...it's uncanny here too.