@mikeyorkie10 wrote:
I am an existing SkyQ user and it seems to have disappeared of Sky's current offerings - any news on how long Sky Q will remain available to existing users. If I move to Sky Stream - does the menu format remain the same and what happens to my previous purchases stored on my hard drive?
As the previous posts have noted, Stream is quite different to Q. It's not a night and day difference, it's a bit more subtle. There's still the same blue toned hue to the user interface and it's a similar menu/tile style operation.
The biggest difference I'd say is what the lack of physical recording does to the user experience. It's slower. You can access pretty much everything you always could on Sky Q (apart from the channels which are currently not on Stream obvs) but it's all streamed from a server, so first and foremost you need fast and stable broadband (preferably wired via ethernet) to get the service at all.
By coming from a server there's also a noticeable lag between pressing a button and the reaction on-screen. Fast forwarding and rewinding for example, is, for me, practically unusable due to how incredibly imprecise and slow it is to react.
The playlist method of tagging shows you want to watch later (the alternative to recording) is still somewhat hit and miss, even after 18+ months. It relies a lot on third party services providing correct metadata for the Stream puck to keep track of. This metadata can often be wrong or not supplied at all and the playlist then doesn't do what it's supposed to. Frustrating.
Apart from that, if you want a small, tidy, one-box solution to bring you all your TV and streaming services in a relatively fuss-free manner (most of the time) then it's perfectly adequate. Image and sound quality is very good, but everything else about it still needs a lot of work.
