Sky Stream has arrived in Ireland

For me sky stream has been fairly good for the price it is. If you can get over the negatives (playlist is not as reliable as dvr, almost all of bbc will not be available on playlist, even some of other channels us erratic on it) and they are outweighed by positives (broadband and tv quality is good, all of the sky tv is available, different streaming apps like Netflix, Paramount, Disbcovrry is provided as part of package, if u gave movies u get 2 Vue cinema tkts a month, sky customer service is great compared to others) then it is worth it. I don’t have multi room but so far I’ve had no issues apart from not being able to watch some of the programs I used to record before.

How do you tune in / access the channels? Any pictures?

Yeah if you’re in the home page and you go down to “apps and inputs”, you’ll see an aerial icon.

"Recording" in the cloud should (in theory) work - broadcaster restrictions (and an occasional bug) may prevent the experience from being smooth for users. Sky are not going to start adding local recording abilities to future boxes, it's over for this type of technology.

They'll keep working on improving the current streaming based services. The improvements will come to current generation hardware.

I agree, the comments here (and elsewhere) show that it is hit and miss for Sky Stream/Glass at the moment. However, streaming is their go forward plan for TV services. Cloud recording reduces the cost of the hardware significantly. They'd have to see a pretty significant dent in subscriber numbers to alter this trajectory.

Remember, for a percentage of users - recording is not even a major issue. I include myself in this. I have the ability to record whatever I want from any FTA channel easily, but I rarely do this (a few times a month max).

On the other hand, I do know people who recording is literally all they do. Series linking all the soaps and catching up afterwards.

The issue of of the BBC recording can be resolved with a proper freesat+ box connected to an existing sky minidish. Include a saorview recorder and you have 70% of the sky basic package all recordable

It comes with the Discovery+ app free so you have on demand all those factual shows across discovery, history I think and crime.

Yes, all the documentary channels are there and as noted above you get the Discovery+ app included in the price.

The basic kids channels (RTEjr, CBBC etc) are on it but Nickelodeon, Nick Jr are an extra cost

Very tempting.

No, absolutely nothing, neither cloud nor physical storage, just easy linking to catch-ups

What would you miss out on?

recording stuff, massively handy for games on RTE or Prime time.

So you can watch Prime Time on the RTE Player app. Probably the games too, though it's not something I use myself.

I find something on the channel 4 app if I try fast forward something I can’t stop it, except putting it in rewind with no way to stop that.

Haven't seen this before, movie on E4 not available

It might be something like the All4 player where you can't watch live but may be able to view it later on the player.

Just saw that Top Gun 2 was on C4 - started an hour ago. Fab says I since MOTD isn’t on. Saw the “Watch from Start” button was available but when I selected that I got a message saying “this program is not available in your area”.

Mightily fed up of Sky Stream now - wonder can I change to Sky Q without penalty? I did a very long survey yesterday about the Sky Stream experience. One of the questions asked was did I have annoyances about not being able to see MOTD more or less as I wanted to see it! They must be getting flack about that one!

Top Gun Maverick is available on the Sky Stream box through All 4 now so it's strange what happened last night. The error suggests a rights problem but as its there now who knows.

This was broadcast though, on live TV. I hadn't tried to Watch from Start or anything. Just switched onto this channel and it appeared.