Sky+HD box, can no longer access planner

[Mark39]

@30yearsofthis all hard disks fail, so I suppose in that sense Sky Stream is an advantage!

I do have Sky Stream and am not plagued by the various issues reported on the Stream forum. No stuttering, freezing, black screens, 'technical issues' or lip/sync problems. It works pretty reliably for me, just the occasional glitch necessitating a restart. It does have excellent UHD picture quality.  The downside, as you've identified, is the loss of control over 'recordings': you're at the mercy of Sky to make content available promptly, which doesn't always happen. And of course, if your broadband service goes down, you have no tv either. Pros and Cons.

[30yearsofthis]

As you say, Pros and Cons... so it seems best to me to have both.

So far I've done very little Streaming, and only on a PC, just Amazon Prime, I'm about the last person left who has never done Netflix 😉 though I surely will.

But what really concerns me about it is being unable to skip Adverts. Do you get round that OK?

[oj01]

@30yearsofthis I had a similar hard drive failure and had to do a Full System Reset. That was in 2016 and the Sky+HD Box is still running fine now! Hopefully you'll get an equally long life out of yours.

[Mark39]

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@30yearsofthis wrote:

But what really concerns me about it is being unable to skip Adverts. Do you get round that OK?

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I've not had a problem with it myself - I do have a Skip Ads subscription. Sometimes there's a Skip Ads button, which moves you directly to the next segment of the programme, otherwise pressing the 'right' button on the remote 3 or 4 times steps you through them (more quickly than the 30x fast forward you have for Sky+)

[30yearsofthis]

Thanks, Oj, thats good to know... or bad if it tempts me to linger 😉

One of the major factors that stopped me leaving before was that I'd lose my recordings, whihc of course I never got round to ever clearing. So there's much less downside in leaving now.

[30yearsofthis]

That's good to know. I have a Panasonic HDD recorder that lets you skip forward by any number of minutes from the remote, whihc works well.

I guess I've never got over the fact that you shouldn't be getting adverts on a subscription service - the whole point of HBO when it first started was NO ADS, whihc made American TV simply impossible to watch. M*A*S*H used to have breaks after almost every joke!