My Sky Q went off towards the end of March and I received an email on Friday with an offer for Sky Stream. Gave them a call and spoke to a great advisor who offered me everything below for £85 a month...
Sky TV
Cinema (inc Paramount+)
Sky Sports
TNT Sports
Netflix Premium (4K)
UHD
Multi Room
Ad Skipping
£85 is less than I was paying when I originally signed up to Q and also less than me paying for each service separately (with the added bonus of Paramount+), so really happy with this.
I agreed to the deal Friday and the Stream boxes arrived on Saturday. Although it’s certainly still early day, first impressions have been much better than I expected.
The UI is more modern looking than Q, the boxes feel snappy and the picture quality seems better than what I had with Q too. I like that you can have separate playlists for family members, so my wife can save all her true crime stuff in her own playlist!
There’s an initial buffering period to the highest quality when switching channels, which takes 1-3 seconds. I was watching football over the weekend on the new low latency Sky Sports UHD channel which cuts the delay by 25-30 seconds compared to the standard UHD channel, while keeping the high resolution and HDR.
I'm sure that I'll miss the recording functionality (though not as much as I originally thought), but I just couldn't get them to budge from £110 for Sky Q for the same package. I suspect they're keen on getting customers on to their Stream/Glass Entertainment OS platform.