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Sky stream is absolutely awful. I’m done
24 Sep 2024 10:03 PM
I've had Sky for decades. Sky+ and Sky Q were amazing products.
We renovated our house and chose not to install a satellite dish, to try to go all modern and go full streaming.
We've had Sky Stream for 18 months.
It's absolutely awful. My wife shouts at me every day, blaming me for getting rid of Q.
Live TV is a joke. BBC news sends me alerts with results before football matches and Olympics events finish.
'Watch from start' just takes you to the app (iPlayer, More 4, etc) and normally is a mission to get working, fast forwarding etc.
Tonight was the final straw as watching bake off 'from start' resorted to sign language mode. Why?!? **bleep**? We ended up watching it via the Apple TV 4K via the Channel 4 app. What am I paying sky for??
Lip sync has been an issue from day 1. Why do I have to muck around with settings when it's clearly a problem with sky stream.
All I have with Sky Stream is a box that runs *other people's apps*. And it does the integration really badly.
I never vent nor moan. But after 20 years of happy Sky advocacy, I'm fed up, have stopped watching TV because it is so annoying. And I'm just really sad that the product has ended up like this.
So do I persevere as this is the best there is these days? Downgrade / swap / upgrade to Sky Q? Is that even available as it doesn't appear to be easily accessible on the Sky website these days.
Go all in on Apple TV and give up any notion of broadcast tv?
Virgin?!?