Is sky stream as good as sky stream

[Anonymous]

Hi, how much do u all recommend sky stream

[peter-marlow+1966]

I have 2 sky glass tvs and a puck  and they all work fine but i have also got sky gigafast  broadband 900mps which  help and i have them all connected  by ethernet cables more stable than WiFi  i also have a sky live camera  to 

[AndrewF_UK]

@Anonymous I really like Sky Stream. The subject of this thread is a bit confusing though, can you clarify? Maybe you meant another Sky product?

[Nigelb1972]

Personally, I love Stream but we have a solid 500mbps internet connection with the puck receiving a solid and stable WiFi signal. However, not everyone is getting on so well.

[Dallybally]

I've liked it so far mostly. Better to use than Q, I think it's a better picture too. Plus having 4k on extra pucks is great. Q was awful really, mini boxes always playing up even on Ethernet. Stream seems definitely better, but I have had a few issues. It's disconnected from WiFi a few times and frozen once. 

[BenJoBanjo]

Depends entirely on how you watch TV. 

If you only use one TV and like having more control of your viewing, setting recordings, watching what you want, when you want, then Sky Q is the better option. 

If you have fast & stable broadband and don't mind Sky and other broadcasters/streamers having more control of their content's availability, and would like UHD on multiple TV's (bandwidth permitting) then Stream is the better option. 

[Anonymous]

The reason for not getting sky stream is that I live in a village and can't get full fibre broadband.

[Anonymous]

Also I don't get why they call sky Q award winning if they  are phasing it out be 2029. 

[AndrewF_UK]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Also I don't get why they call sky Q award winning if they  are phasing it out be 2029. 

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It won awards so it's fair to say that. And it's worth noting that Sky hasn't publically said phasing it out by 2029, that's a bit of conjecture based on satellite end of life dates. In practice they've kind of phased it out already for most new customers because it's not really advertised on the Sky site anymore, you really have to dig for it. 

Without good broadband Sky Stream isn't a great option, but the good news is that the country is really getting its act together with fast internet through fibre, satellites and 5G and by the time Sky Q does eventually shut you'll probably have no issue getting Stream!

[Dallybally]

Ah yes. If you've not got good internet I bet stream would struggle. Do a speed test while holding your phone where the stream box would be. I think they say min 25mbps for 4k and 35 if you have more than 1 box but based on what I'm reading in this forum I'd be wanting at least double that to be sure. What is your actual normal top speed? You could look at new router or Ethernet or something if it's fast enough next to router but not at the potential location of stream box. 

[Dallybally]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Also I don't get why they call sky Q award winning if they  are phasing it out be 2029. 

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When Q came out almost 10 years ago the specs were very good and some of the functionality was ground breaking. However it never worked great, mini boxes were awful in many cases, mine included. You can see how it won awards for the theoretical functionality though. 

[HavencroftKev]

@Dallybally I think a stable connection appears to much more important than a fast one. I manage speeds of around 80mbps with Sky Broadband and my Stream works brilliantly 99% of the time. Yet with my 1gb Virgin connection which wasn't stable at all the Stream struggled. 

[Dallybally]

My virgin 1gb seems fine, I only get half the speed as the cable is damaged and they can't get to it to repair. I have got an expensive asus mesh network though, maybe it was virgins router causing the problems?

[PortlandBill]

Basically sky stream is an app that links all the other free and paid for apps together. Stream adds little itself, except maybe Sky Atlantic.its guide is poor. You get loads of adverts that you can't rid of. Fast forwarding and reversing is hit and miss depending on which stream service you're using. Sometimes you can see where you are, sometimes you can't. But you always get to see all the adverts over and over if you Ff or fr over an ad break. You even get adverts when paused.

I get pixelated videos occasionally, rebooting solves that. I'm on my 3rd remote control, can't control TV volume now (was OK). Sony Bravia TV. If I had a choice now, I'd go back to just using freeview. 

[ChrisEB]

I've a part fibre connection running at about 54Mbps (standard speedtest.net) and the Sky Puck (stream) works effortlessly even with simultaneous other video demands (e.g. BBC iPlayer) on my router. My Puck is connected to the router by Ethernet. you don't need a full fibre connection. Like you my area doesn't have full fibre available.