sky dishless system

[flashgordon1952]

well looks it will not be long before i go dishless probably sometime next week having the odd problem of losing signal due to weather ( again) . Wind and rain I wonder how many people are useing the new dish less system now and how they are getting on with it . One year on

 

[nopiano]

Is that the streaming box? I’ve wondered about that as my Now TV is around £40pm with Sports included. The only snag is the slowness to swap channels, nothing like flicking from one to next.

 

[Juzzie Wuzzie]

I'm a Now TV user and am a fan as unlike NP above am not really a channel flicker. You can get some pretty special deals at times if you threaten to cancel.

 

[abacus]

Just remember you can't record any of the programs, so unless the program you want to watch is available on demand, you have to be there at the specific time it is on. (You would be surprised just how many programs are not available OnDemand)

Bill

 

[Dave_]

so unless the program you want to watch is available on demand, you have to be there at the specific time it is on. (You would be surprised just how many programs are not available OnDemand)

Bill

Not strictly true. Stream/Glass has a playlist function that allows you to essentially bookmark programmes from the EPG to watch later.

There are a few restrictions to what can be added to the playlist due to licensing issues as highlighted in the Sky help article

Sky Help | Sky.com

Sky Help

www.sky.com

 

[flashgordon1952]

Not a fan of NOW TV myself find it a waste of money ! As far as Sky Streaming is concerned , it is the future of Sky TV not the Dish system, which we all know can be affected by rain and winds ,fitted on to a wall of a property. For that reason mine is at ground level about 4 ft on a concrete post. You can still get transmissions even there. . Hard rain or gets knock by a object ( which happened to me ) I think i stick with the old Dish for now

 

[Minkey1]

Not a fan of NOW TV myself find it a waste of money !

Depends on needs and wants. No contract needed and when I had it direct I dipped in and out depending on their offering at any given time.

Now have it via EETV @£12pm . Gives me a 4k 2TB box plus a mini in another room, Netflix HD w ads and Now Entertainment in 720p. I could boost Now to HD but won’t bother.

I’ve no interest in Sports and would meet my Cinema needs elsewhere, so it works for me.

 

[flashgordon1952]

I have had Sky TV digital now for only 14 years yes it is not cheap but i watch a lot of tv so does the wife

 

[Minkey1]

I have had Sky TV digital now for only 14 years yes it is not cheap but i watch a lot of tv so does the wife

My brother pays Sky £120pm, excluding his BB and phone. For Fibre 900, the TV, and 2 24Gb phones our total is £96pm. But I do buy films on disc and to stream so 🤷🏼

 

[flashgordon1952]

The fact it is slowwww i have Amazon and the same thing happens ! But will see I have had problems with the dish ,with the amount of storms we have had here ( losing 4 large fences ) . Which having the dishless system would solve the issue . Note our dish is it ground level ,rather than on a wall on the outside of a house. And attached to a concrete post

 

[flashgordon1952]

so have signed a contract for Sky Stream They tried me to have the Glass as well not for me i said !! having problem with the dish system due to weather here . rain and wind ! we are 290ASL and facing the west and south west winds too. So see what happens will it work with 80 Download speed i think it be okay. It appears Sky having a problem off loading Sky Glass mk 2 with a very average Phillips TV ( probably not as good as TCL £350 50 inch) But okay the sound system i gather is very good but i dont use the sound much due to paper walls here

 

[nopiano]

so have signed a contract for Sky Stream They tried me to have the Glass as well not for me i said !! having problem with the dish system due to weather here . rain and wind ! we are 290ASL and facing the west and south west winds too. So see what happens will it work with 80 Download speed i think it be okay. It appears Sky having a problem off loading Sky Glass mk 2 with a very average Phillips TV ( probably not as good as TCL £350 50 inch) But okay the sound system i gather is very good but i dont use the sound much due to paper walls here

How is it? I looked at Sky Stream after WHF enthused about it in the Awards.

I’m using Now TV in two TVs, with occasional use on iPad and iPhone especially when travelling. Snag is I would need two Sky Hubs and the cost looks similar for Sky Entertainment, Sports, UHD/Dolby upgrade, and only the included Netflix might shade it.

Sky Sports is over £30pm so the biggest item, but then I follow F1, Tennis, some darts, snooker, and the occasional other sport.

 

[matthewpianist]

I cancelled my Sky dish-based contract just over a year ago, and moved my broadband to another provider. We now use the apps on our smart TV and, with Netflix, Apple TV and Prime subscriptions, we have access to everything we want at massively lower cost. I don't see any future in dish-based TV, but neither do I particularly wish to support Commcast, owners of Sky.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

We now use the apps on our smart TV and, with Netflix, Apple TV and Prime subscriptions, we have access to everything we want at massively lower cost.

We went with Freesat a few years ago, after the box is bought, no ongoing charges. If you watch or care about TV as much as we do, Freesat is all you need.

 

[Gray]

My brother pays Sky £120pm, excluding his BB and phone.

I think my brother was giving Sky £100+ a month.
Whether or not that includes phone and BB, it's way too much.

I don't watch enough TV to warrant paying the likes of Sky.
(Until March, my phone and BB is £1.99 per month - then it rises to £11.90, which is more than enough for me to be paying).

 

[Dave_]

Interestingly Sky Q is now no longer available to order online, you have to phone Sky CS and request it

I suspect it will become a special order product before long, i.e will only be offered to those where Sky stream hasn't been viable due to broadband reliability issues etc, before being discontinued altogether.

 

[flashgordon1952]

I said it before so i say it again do not get it. Nowhere near as good as Sky Q maybe in 3 years time it will be,. So i keep my Sky Q box for now okay it is the basic model but it works Dont replace something that does not need replacing

 

[nopiano]

I said it before so i say it again do not get it. Nowhere near as good as Sky Q maybe in 3 years time it will be,. So i keep my Sky Q box for now okay it is the basic model but it works Dont replace something that does not need replacing

Apologies if I’ve lost the thread, but is it Sky Stream you’re saying not to get?

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

It looks like although Sky are steering customers away from satellite, they have singed a deal with the satellite operator SES, to keep transmitting until 2029. It also looks like others delivering TV via satellite in Europe, may be falling inline with that date. Freesat's future seems ok until then but, they are changing how they do things, in response to demand. There is much uncertainty about what SES might do, as satellites reach their end of life.

BTW, the above is what I have distilled from a few minutes research, I cannot guarantee accuracy.

 

[Jasonovich]

Sat dishes are going the same way as smokeless chimneys, a year ago, I decommissioned my motorised satellite dish, my top end receiver is collecting dust.
My wife got to see her Russian language shows from various hotbirds, eurosat and other birds floating in space.
It was almost a hobby for me, picking up new stations, particularly English ones but times have changed.

The future is streaming, that is why I ditched my BeeBeeSee TV licence, which is utter garbage.

I have Netflix, I have Apple, I have IPTV from the nice people in Morocco cough cough, my wife as Katrina, gets all her Russian channels.

Much of the streaming content is 4k, the quality is really good.
It is a little disconcerting, some manufacturers have discontinued the production of Blu-ray discs.

I lament the eventual passing of satellite transmission, the picture quality was absolutely superb, streaming comes close if you have suitable cable fibre bandwidth.

I can accept market realities determine what is available to us for consumption.
Nevertheless, it would be tragic, if there are no more disks to feed our 4K UHD Blu-ray players.