Sky Stream has arrived in Ireland

Full details are here:

https://www.sky.com/ie/tv/stream

€20 a month to be able to watch FTA channels and netflix hardly a bargain but it has its uses I guess where someone can't have a dish.

...surely vpn would work?

...what are these services like in regards buffering/freezing etc?

I don't see it saying anything about recording shows.

There is a slight delay yeah, I noticed it watching the football and friends whatsapping about a goal before it happened. It is only 30 seconds or so though but I'd say that will improve eventually.

I've heard Sky are making a move away from the dish altogether so it will be the standard in a few years i'd say.

I see ad skipping is free for a year, then €6 a month. If I was shelling out for the basic package plus Sports and Sports Extra thats €60 a month, rather poor to have to pay an additional €6 a month on top.

It's streaming and catch up service only. Recording is not part of this. Besides, I think it's fair to say that a lot or people are recording less and less these days.

If you have an irish account, and are looking to temporarily use it in another EU country, that should work with no need for any funny business thanks to EU rules.

Will be interesting to see if the live stream devices ever see themselves "jailbroken" for lack of a better word, and what that could bring. I doubt the sky streams themselves can be directly accessed considering Sky have been at that aspect for a while now but I imagine the GUI itself coming in handy if you can build dodgy IPTV streams into it.

What really annoys me about Sky's streaming service is the 1080p limit for most on demand movies. People paying serious money for old HD when every other streaming service is throwing out atmos and UHD for far less. I was recently in my wife's parents house who have Glass and noticed that the new Avatar was only available in HD, which is madness.

Its good to see another IPTV option over Broadband - but at €30pm, Sky Stream looks very bad value vs eir TV at €9.99pm. Granted, the €30 includes Netflix - while eir includes Amazon Prime Video. Eir also allow multi-room without any additional monthly subscription if you purchase additional Apple TV 4k+ boxes whereas Sky force you to pay for multi-room, and use proprietary boxes. The cloud recording options on Sky also seem poorer than Eir. Eir allow flexible recording of BBC, and this is probably the most important, as the BBC i-Player is not officially available in Ireland. The Irish channels don't appear to permit cloud recording currently - but this is less of a problem because their players are available, and they have some catch-up options.

Nevertheless, it appears that IPTV Streaming boxes are the future, and will increasingly displace legacy hard-disk boxes and satellite dishes. Lest everyone gets too excited that this is being done to improve the experience for customers, the cynics might say that the real reason is to give the TV operator greater control over the advertising stream!

F1 has its own 4K channel now.

Thanks for that - just wanted to double check before I make the jump.

Am I correct in saying that the way recording works on Sky Glass and I presume Stream is the same, is that the programme you want to record is either recorded on the cloud or else, the system digs the programme out of the player for that channel and puts it into a playsuit for you to play when you want. However, what happens with programmes on the BBC channels ? The selection of programmes available to view on the BBC on Demand section on Q is very small, perhaps its different on Glass and Stream. For example, if you want to record BBC news or some other programme not in the On Demand section, what happens then ? Or is cloud recording allowed on the BBC programmes now ?

Correct with eir you have to have their broadband with Sky you're free to choose whomever you want. A friend of mine has Sky Glass and the BBC catch up stuff is not quite iPlayer level but deffo more than what's currently available on Sky Q.

I love this option! I would go for it myself but I have access to the Family Sky Go app via Apple TV (which I pay for) and it seems a very similar experience. I was actually surprised SKY Go is so good on the Apple TV

Is the 4K TNT Sports available on Sky Stream?

They probably mean Sky Go. It's an app available to Sky subscribers for viewing Sky channels on phones & tablets.