I've been using Sky Stream for a year now and, on the whole, it's been a fairly positive experience.
I'm hooked up via ethernet to a very solid Three Mobile Broadband connection delivering high speeds, and generally the streams have been flawless.
I'm not a live streamer, very much a playlister - mainly sports (cricket,football) and a regular user of YouTube, Amazon Prime and iPlayer.
My biggest frustrations relate mainly to the playlist and in particular TNT Sports and their bizarre approach to making series links available to view.
Take the current Test Match series in India at the moment. 'Series added' it says - let's face it, who is really getting up at 4am in the morning ?
By the time I come to watch the day's play (long after the live broadcast has finished) it's nowhere to be seen in the Playlist.
Go into Discovery+ - despite having TNT Sports, it only recognises me as a standard account holder. Okay, no worries, I only have time to watch the edited highlights. That's on for an hour in the evenings - 'series added' it says....I'll watch it before I go to bed.
No I won't because.....it's nowhere to be seen in the Playlist - it usually appears 24 hours later, when there's been another day's play.
Same thing happens with the Saturday lunchtime football. The only way round it, I've found, is to catch the stream live and watch from start (doing it at the minute with Everton vs Spurs, did it last night for the Test Match highlights).
Even the Sky Sports playlists have random hiccups from time to time - sometimes the lists are in reverse date order (oldest first), sometimes the right way round. Sometimes weeks of content disappears, then magically reappears for no reason. It seems they haven't quite nailed that aspect of it yet.
It needs to be more seamless, because at the moment the playlist (for me) is the biggest thing letting this product down.
Occasionally (usually on UHD feeds) I get sound and picture dropouts lasting a few seconds at a time - the only way to stop this is to power cycle the puck, then it's fine.
On the whole, however, it works 'passably' - it's an improvement on the Virgin TV service I had previously. I have another 6 months of my contract to run, so we'll see how it goes and review it again then.
