@Rob481 wrote:
Thanks, Mike. This throws up a question.. If A favourite old movie or a one-off documentary comes up on let's say BBC1 when I am away for a few days or on holiday and I want to record it for later viewing, how can I do this? It's dead easy on Virgin media so surely it should also be possible on Sky??
You would look for it on the EPG in advance and add it to your playlist.
When you return you would select the programme/movie in your playlist and it will trigger BBC iPlayer to open and stream it, but (and it's sometimes a big BUT) this will only happen if the BBC have on demand streaming rights for that particular programme/movie.
Most content shown on BBC channels will be available on iPlayer for a minimum of 7 or 31days, and often up to a year, but you have no control over this.
If the movie you want to watch for example is available on another streaming service which holds the streaming rights then you will be directed to watch it on that service. This may be a subscription service such as Sky Cinema, Disney+, or Prime Video. If you do not pay for a subscription to such a service then you will not be able to watch it.
It's best not to think of Sky Stream as being like a hard drive in the cloud. It's not. You don't have a personal storage area in which you can delete individual episodes or recordings. Your playlist is just a list of bookmarks which trigger playback of streamable files hosted on various servers, run by various streaming services. You can remove these bookmarks, but they only work for entire series, not individual episodes.
