@Kevin+McQuaid wrote:
But if I am correct, Sky Stream playlist will only be available for the time the program is available for. If Sky Stream pulls that particular program before I have a chance to watch it it will be gone.
Sort of, yes. The key difference with any purely streaming service, not just Sky Stream, is that control of the content lies with the broadcaster/streamer, not you, the customer.
With Sky Q, the physical recording of a broadcast onto a hard drive gives you much more control. You can press play and watch it whenever you want, pause, rewind, and fast forward with ease. You can delete it whenever you like or keep it for as long as you like. Sky do have the power to remotely remove on demand downloads of content which they no longer have the rights to, but remotely deleting recordings of broadcasts is much rarer.
With Sky Stream, the playlist is not like a big hard drive in the cloud - you can't store 'recordings' or delete them yourself. The playlist is merely a list of content that you'd like to be able to watch later. Whether you can or not is determined by the broadcaster/streamer and whether they have the appropriate on demand streaming rights.
Some content will play back via a third party app, some content will play back from a 'cloud recording' or basically a stored section of the original broadcast live stream. It's not a personal recording, unique to you, stored on a special hard drive in the cloud with your name on it, it's just a file on a server which anyone else who playlisted the same thing has access to. You can play it, rewind it, and fast forward it but you can't delete it. You can remove it from your playlist but it'll remain on the server for others to watch until such time as Sky loses the rights to stream it.
Other content will play back from an on demand library, again on Sky's servers.
If you come in late and want to watch something that's already started, you can 'watch from the start' on a live stream and if you'd playlisted it, then it should be available to watch again later.
If you're used to being able to sit and watch exactly what you want, when you want, then streaming can be a bit of a shock, but you can get used to it. If you like to pause programmes for a period whilst you go to the loo or make a cuppa, if you like to fast forward or rewind quite often to re-watch a bit of sport for example, the experience of doing this on a Stream puck is slower and glitchier than on Sky Q.
It sounds to me like you'd be best off sticking with Sky Q for a while longer.
