Sky Stream feed to two TVs in one house

[GruminC]

I have just moved to a village where there is no reception over a TV aerial.  An aerial fitter suggested I get Sky Glass, but we already have two perfectly good TVs connected to the internet. Two questions:

(1) Do we need the TV that comes with Sky Glass, or can we use our existing TVs to receive a Sky package?

(2) If we stick with our existing TVs, will the "Puck" that comes with Sky Stream feed more than one TV?

Note, my wife wants to watch terrestrial channels live, rather than on catch-up. That's the only reason we are considering a Sky package.

Apologies if these questions seem naive. We had perfectly good service via an aerial in our previous house, so we haven't needed additional packages before. (We do have Netflix...)

[TimmyBGood]

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@GruminC wrote:

(1) Do we need the TV that comes with Sky Glass, or can we use our existing TVs to receive a Sky package?

Opt for Sky Stream instead of Sky Glass.

(2) If we stick with our existing TVs, will the "Puck" that comes with Sky Stream feed more than one TV?

No: it's one Steam puck per television set (plus the Whole Home subscription supplement)

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[TimmyBGood]

@GruminC 

Perhaps for clarity:

'Sky Glass' is the Sky-branded television set

'Sky Stream' is the Sky-branded box for use with any other TV

Both are different to Sky Broadband and will work with any ISP as long as sufficient bandwidth is available.

[GruminC]

Many thanks. Very helpful.

I will look up the Whole Home thing. I hadn't seen that before.

[TimmyBGood]

@GruminC 

'Whole Home' is just the Sky marketing name for the additional cost to use more than one Glass television set or Stream puck at an address.

It should not be taken literally.

[GruminC]

We are really only considering whether to add a second TV to the Sky package, so in our case there's no real difference between "cover the whole house" and "get one more subscription". 

Still, I appreciate the clarification. It would matter if we added a third TV.  That would clearly mean getting another Puck. 

Many thanks.

[TimmyBGood]

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@GruminC wrote:

Note, my wife wants to watch terrestrial channels live, rather than on catch-up. That's the only reason we are considering a Sky package.

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If all that's required are the free-to-air channels then you should also look at the Freely streaming hardware : by definition there's no requirement to pay a monthly subscription to receive terrestrial  television.

[GruminC]

Oh. That is a very good tip.  I will chase it up. Thanks again.

[GruminC]

Is that also one box per TV?

[Angel_Aka]

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@GruminC wrote:

Is that also one box per TV?

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Yes, though there are TVs with Freely built-in which do not require any additional hardware. 

If your TVs are smart TVs with apps already built in then you can actually watch live free-to-air channels via those apps. BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Channel 4 and Five all offer live streams of all their channels. 

[Hunter2660]

Another option is an Amazon Firestick. That has a useful Live TV section which includes a 7 day programme guide for the main terrestrial channels and their own FAST channels. You can add to that channels from Pluto and Plex. It works by taking you direct to the channel selected from the various apps without you having to open each app manually. eg selecting BBC 1 will take you direct to BBC 1 through iplayer pretty much seamlessly. The only thing you can't do is "channel hop" from say BBC 1 to ITV 1 etc. You have to return to the guide to select another channel.

[GruminC]

Thanks.  Our TVs are too old to have Freely built in.

[TimmyBGood]

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@GruminC wrote:

Our TVs are too old to have Freely built in.

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Only recent sets do: that's why the Freely set top boxes exist.