topic Unable to watch via discovery+ in Sky Q

Unable to watch via discovery+

Raider999 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:39:06 GMT

I was watching a rugby match on discovery +. Got 2/3 way through then it stopped with a problem.

My Internet connection had dropped out. AsvI have skyQ I was able to watch a recording of a different programme.

However, this got me thinking - if I had sky stream I would have been without TV until the Internet came back.

Who in their right mind thinks sky stream can replace skyQ?

That is without the inability to record and timeshift programmes

Re: Unable to watch via discovery+

oldfella — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:48:04 GMT

@Raider999 wrote:

I was watching a rugby match on discovery +. Got 2/3 way through then it stopped with a problem.

My Internet connection had dropped out. AsvI have skyQ I was able to watch a recording of a different programme.

However, this got me thinking - if I had sky stream I would have been without TV until the Internet came back.

Who in their right mind thinks sky stream can replace skyQ?

That is without the inability to record and timeshift programmes

Hi @Raider999

Unfortunately there will not be any other option when Satellite broadcasting ceases in the not too distant future

Re: Unable to watch via discovery+

TimmyBGood — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:12:29 GMT

@Raider999 wrote:

However, this got me thinking - if I had sky stream I would have been without TV until the Internet came back.

Who in their right mind thinks sky stream can replace skyQ?

That's something we'll have to learn to live with, mitigated to some degree by the greater reliability of optical rather than copper broadband connections, and wider availablity of high speed cellular failover.

As @oldfella indicates, if investors in SES don't think replacing the Astra cluster at 28.2E is going to generate sufficient financial return between 2030 and 2050 (from a diminishing and historically small market in UK/ROI) then all those Sky dishes will be pointing at empty space.

Tragically, a brand new broadcast satellite (including launch) would cost less than the HS2 bat tunnel