topic Re: BBC do you have to use I player to watch saved program in Sky Stream

BBC do you have to use I player to watch saved program

Victor51 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:24:53 GMT

I want to save series and not use I player

Re: BBC do you have to use I player to watch saved program

GD1 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:28:18 GMT

@Victor51 Anything from the BBC needs iPlayer to access, that is what they want (the BBC)

Re: BBC do you have to use I player to watch saved program

peter-marlow+1966 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:30:54 GMT

Victor51

Welcome to the forum

We are all fellow customers on here like yourself

Any programmes saved on your play list with bbc will take you to the player to watch them the same with itv, channels 4 & 5. When you save them to your play list it is not recorded

Hope this helps you

Re: BBC do you have to use I player to watch saved program

Gincap — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:40:17 GMT

It's going to be the only option so just as well get used to it.

Re: BBC do you have to use I player to watch saved program

lettice — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:32:01 GMT

As mentioned above.

Anything added to your playlist for BBC content, will only launch and play in iPlayer.

Also, when you use watch from start for any BBC channels, that will also launch in iPlayer.

Some selected ITV and C5 content does play out as On demand using Sky Stream/Glass trickplay (Sky Stream/Glass own play/pause/ff/rew), rather than the ITV/C5 apps.

ITV, C4 and C5 all do play out watch from start using the Sky Stream/Glass trickplay and not via their apps.

Re: BBC do you have to use I player to watch saved program

Angel_Aka — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:01:32 GMT

@Victor51 wrote:
I want to save series and not use I player

You'd need to switch to using a device which records a broadcast instead. There are smart TV's with Freeview tuners which allow recording onto USB flash drives, and several Freeview PVRs which record onto a hard drive. These obviously need an aerial.
You can also still switch to Sky Q, the satellite service which records onto hard drive.
The only real benefit of being able to record a BBC show from a broadcast is the availability of 5.1 audio. The live streams and broadcasts of BBC channels carry 5.1 audio on drama series and movies. The iPlayer streams only carry stereo audio.

Re: BBC do you have to use I player to watch saved program

mr.tickle — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:22:27 GMT

@Angel_Aka wrote:
@Victor51 wrote:
I want to save series and not use I player
You'd need to switch to using a device which records a broadcast instead. There are smart TV's with Freeview tuners which allow recording onto USB flash drives, and several Freeview PVRs which record onto a hard drive. These obviously need an aerial.
You can also still switch to Sky Q, the satellite service which records onto hard drive.
The only real benefit of being able to record a BBC show from a broadcast is the availability of 5.1 audio. The live streams and broadcasts of BBC channels carry 5.1 audio on drama series and movies. The iPlayer streams only carry stereo audio.

And that benefit cannot be understated.

It's still gobsmacking that iPlayer only supports stereo sound.