Get Stream or stay on Sky Q?

[fed+up+user]

I'm a long time customer and have a set up consisting of Sky Q with 2 multi room boxes. I want to hear peoples opinion's wether it's worth changing over to Stream or stay with more traditional TV?

It's very rare live TV is watched and tend to record most things or watch the (ever growing list!) apps. I have have everything but sports package. Our broadband is excellent. So in theory would have no streaming issues.

Let me know if it's a pain, it's great, glad you made the switch/regret it or any annoying things you can think of!

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[Jporch316]

@fed+up+user 

I switched to glass / stream in 2022 and have never looked back. Most of the annoying / frustrating aspects have been ironed out during this time. I wouldn't even consider going back to sky q

it does help to have a fast (full fibre if possible) connection and also a mesh system really helps. 

[lettice]

Sounds like Sky Stream will fit nicely into your viewing habits, with watching On demand, via apps and needed the Sky Stream playlist to flag all your viewing easily in its many places along with cloud recording those that do not have any on demand or app presence.

As you have mentioned with having a good broadband connection. 

Having a good local network broadband reach is key to Sky Stream.
Not just broadband speed to your house and router, but for your local network supply via wifi or ethernet, that can be affected in a busy household.

I've had Sky Stream now for 18 months or so and have in that time had no real issues with it.

Wifi connectivity with it very stable for both my Pucks.

Would certainly not want to go to back to Sky Q.

Its a really nicely laid out product and UI, that is still maturing (receiving regular updates) and receiving some good of late UI improvements that were welcome.

Have a read of my journey from Sky Q to Sky Stream, link in my signature below.

[BenJoBanjo]

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@fed+up+user wrote:

I'm a long time customer and have a set up consisting of Sky Q with 2 multi room boxes. I want to hear peoples opinion's wether it's worth changing over to Stream or stay with more traditional TV?

It's very rare live TV is watched and tend to record most things or watch the (ever growing list!) apps. I have have everything but sports package. Our broadband is excellent. So in theory would have no streaming issues.

Let me know if it's a pain, it's great, glad you made the switch/regret it or any annoying things you can think of!

😊

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If you don't watch sport or live TV then there's absolutely no need to have Sky Stream. They are the two key features which make Stream attractive to many but you can get the same content in the same quality without a monthly subscription in your own smart TV or a cheap streaming device such as a Firestick, Roku, GoogleTV or the more expensive Apple TV 4K box. 
You can stream Sky channels live and on demand via the very handy NOW app on all those devices too. 
I'm personally very glad to no longer be a Sky Q or Sky Stream user. The Stream puck hardware I found to be too slow and unreliable. We don't watch sport in our household and stream all our content from apps on a couple of Apple TV 4K boxes. I had to reboot our old Sky Stream puck more times in a week than I've had to in a year of using the Apple hardware. 
Viewing habits differ but I personally I find the NOW app to be a much better way of watching Sky content and Apple's tvOS to be much smoother and more reliable than SkyOS on the Stream puck.