Sky Stream - Launches *NOW* (post #1 for pricing / page #5 for pics)

DiscoFizz said:
Well mine arrived this morning. What a heap of junk. Image quality is crap. UI is glitchy, slow and live HD channels are sharper via Freeview HD. UHD is OK but I'm seriously not impressed.
If they'd put the UHD streams on NOW I'd pay for them, but this box is seriously unimpressive. It's completely screwed the CEC with my other kit connected to my amp too. It's a trash fire.
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Uh oh.
 
DiscoFizz said:
Well mine arrived this morning. What a heap of junk. Image quality is crap. UI is glitchy, slow and live HD channels are sharper via Freeview HD. UHD is OK but I'm seriously not impressed.
If they'd put the UHD streams on NOW I'd pay for them, but this box is seriously unimpressive. It's completely screwed the CEC with my other kit connected to my amp too. It's a trash fire.
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Somethings not right, mine is miles better than Now TV which I was using before stream. I'm really impressed with it. That said, I have come from a combination of the TVs own TV guide and Now TV...although, a couple of years ago I did have Sky Q which I don't rate personally. We could never get the mini box to work reliably. I'd say stream is the best TV I've had so far. Nice TV guide, easy to find stuff, and the box is nice and fast, no lag on mine.

Not all good though.....

One out of the three boxes has died which is being swapped out tomorrow. It's ok for a while, then it just goes black with a white flashing light. Reset it twice now, and it always ends up the same.
 
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DiscoFizz said:
Well mine arrived this morning. What a heap of junk. Image quality is crap. UI is glitchy, slow and live HD channels are sharper via Freeview HD. UHD is OK but I'm seriously not impressed.
If they'd put the UHD streams on NOW I'd pay for them, but this box is seriously unimpressive. It's completely screwed the CEC with my other kit connected to my amp too. It's a trash fire.
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I've had Glass and a couple of streaming pucks since March and it doesn't sound like something is right. The live HD channels are sharper and clearer compared to freeview on all the TVs which range from LG OLED to Sony LED and the Glass TV. UHD on cinema and sports is very good as is the HDR and Atmos sound. The box wasn't great when I first got it but software updates in the first 2-3 weeks fixed that and its worked great since, but it is very bandwidth dependant and if its using 2.4Ghz the whole experience will be poor.
 
Is there anything to indicate recording/catchup capability - especially on Sports.

Reading back through the thread it didn't seem 100% settled as to what can and can't be done. Given the size of the unit going to presume entirely cloud based do to space for a storage device.
 
poosemon said:
Is there anything to indicate recording/catchup capability - especially on Sports.

Reading back through the thread it didn't seem 100% settled as to what can and can't be done. Given the size of the unit going to presume entirely cloud based do to space for a storage device.
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There is no recording facility, everything is streamed from Sky. You have a playlist or search for stuff and it streams from there.

To add I have the entire F1 program listed in my playlist, which has every session from every race this season so far.
 
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Arcane said:
So, if I want to watch a game of football I can rewind to the beginning even if it doesn't record? This is my issue with NowTV, I would potentially sign up if I can do this.
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I assume so, I don't watch football but you do get the option for example in F1 to either watch now (start from the beginning) or Watch Live and often when I go to a program I can carry on in realtime or press select to start from the beginning. Its just a massive streaming service in reality, pretty much everything is on demand apart from current live programs, but even those you can restart.
 
So, is anything that has or is airing able to be added to a playlist? For instance my Mrs watches "Come Dine with Me" and records them. Could she just add the show to a playlist and when episodes air they become available? Which is just recording by another name which makes me think it doesn't work like that.
 
ubern00b said:
So, is anything that has or is airing able to be added to a playlist? For instance my Mrs watches "Come Dine with Me" and records them. Could she just add the show to a playlist and when episodes air they become available? Which is just recording by another name which makes me think it doesn't work like that.
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You add the program, in this case Come Dine with Me to the Playlist, it then shows in my case, what can be streamed series 1 - 22 and the individual episodes under that and also what is on this week as a separate category and the episodes, dates and times they are showing as well. If I click on an episode it opens through the streaming platform, so you are adding them to a playlist, much as you do music or maybe a better analogy would be an artist and their albums, where you can then select the tracks.
 
Wow we got lucky signing up early, the official pricing for a rolling contract is a bit much. £27 for sky sports, I’ve got it for £20 until April.
 
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Had two of these delivered Thursday… ringing up to return them tomorrow.

They’re playing havoc with the sound system (ARC from TV to receiver) and interfere with control signal on Xbox and Shield Pro.

Everything connected via TV, then ARC to receiver… been absolutely fine for years until I’ve put these in the mix.

I’m a bit gutted really.

Have reset them both, re-paired remote etc, ensured audio control etc disabled when setting them up again, but no luck… everything else back to normal as soon as the Pucks are physically powered off.

Anything that upsets how Mrs w watches stuff is a no no!
 
Turned off hdmi control, i know it's a pain!

An update on Sky Q killed my arc once also, turned it off and it was back to normal. It's fixed for Q now, just in case anyone is wondering.
 
Well this is great news. I think I need to bin VM telly and get a couple of these streaming boxes instead. Having everything centralised is a nuisance and my cabling isn’t up to the task of UHD, whereas the internet is plenty fast enough.

It’s annoying as the latest virgin box is quite good. They just have to be hard wired into the coax cable like old sky boxes.

Finally the future might be with us!
 
I haven't read the whole thread, so sorry if this has come up.

I'm keen on this, but I can only watch TV through headphones (I live in a shared house and often watch TV late at night). Does the Sky Stream box support Bluetooth headphones? If it does, I'll probably get it.
 
How are people getting on with their broadband/wifi and ther new system. We are only 3 miles form city and only get max of 22Mb so not great and I am worried that I won't be able to get UHD if everything is streamed.
 
gailjon said:
How are people getting on with their broadband/wifi and ther new system. We are only 3 miles form city and only get max of 22Mb so not great and I am worried that I won't be able to get UHD if everything is streamed.
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You'll struggle to get consistent UHD with 22Mb, even hard-wired with ethernet.
I have 74Mb download speed, have the puck connected via ethernet and wifi turned off. It still sometimes struggles when anyone else in the house does anything that might take up a bit of bandwidth.
I've been through 2 boxes now and two remotes. They're all the same - glitchy, slow and they absolutely destroy any CEC linking with other devices attached to your TV.
It feels like a streaming box from 2015 trying to run a 2022 streaming service. The apps on board my 4 year old TV run quicker than any of them on Stream. It takes 2 seconds for a channel to appear when you select it from the TV guide and click up and down to channel hop. Painful.
It's getting dumped in a month. **** poor. Shame really as the picture and sound quality is good. The box just isn't powerful enough and the playlist simply doesn't work. It's just a bad list of programmes you like in a really random order.
 
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