I think the important thing here is that similar to Tesco Sky are trying to offer Value, Finest, Regular etc. For me the fact that the Sky Stream can pull in all my subscriptions into 1 UI and I can watch in multiple rooms without having to have an aerial in every room which was the reason I got Q even though it often failed. As Andy says if it's about saving money then NOW is the best offer, but if it's the user experience, having everything in one place without having to switch between apps/hdmi then Stream seems good. Ultimately I think Sky will only offer Stream like services in the future be that NOW or Glass/Stream
I'm with now for several years always under offers from your old advice and I absolutely love it. I'm sticking with Now TV, I have it on three apple tv boxes around my home
I was a long term Sky customer and had a pretty good deal, but the lack of flexibility and the fact I no longer wanted a monthly bill prompted me to look into other options, I cancelled Sky TV and I now have NOW via several devices, I only paid full price for Sky Sports, Entertainment and Movies at the start, when I attempted to cancel these packages I got really good offers including Sky Sports for £19.99 per Month, to cover the Freeview issue I bought a recordable Freeview box for a little under £200, but that's because I like to actually record programmes and not rely on catch up services, I highly recommend NOW
I was paying £88 for Virgin with broadband, just the entertainment channels. I cancelled their TV package and now use NowTV, currently paying £3.99 a month for Entertainment, £5 Boost, £2 Sky Cinema and £20 Sky Sports. I also have Disney which I got through Tesco Clubcard, free Apple TV with my phone contract and my sons pay for Prime and Netflix. I can’t watch that much TV!!
The good thing about Now TV is when you try and cancel they want to retain their customers so they will frequently give out discounts. I had Sky Sports for £17 in August compared to £33.
Hi Andy. How do I watch live terrestrial TV (BBC, ITV, Channel 4 etc) via wifi and be able to flick through the channels without having to use BBC iplayer or ITV Hub etc. (I have an Apple TV and fire TV so I can get all the apps). I've just moved my living room around and now the TV isn't close to the sat dish so I don't want to run cables across the floor to the TV. For convenience sky stream is the easiest albeit an expensive option right? Although you did just mention Virgin or BT TV as I'm writing this.
Important thing to mention that Netflix is included with sky stream and if you have sky broadband, your broadband gets discounted from £30 to £17 so the Netflix saving and broadband saving combined makes it a no brainer compared to now tv
I asked this question yesterday but cannot find it in the comments, therefore I am asking in a different way. Which box would you recommend, Andy to enable multiple recordings? Thank you in advance.
For people who don't have aerials, such as people who live in new build homes or apartment blocks, Sky Stream is the perfect solution which gives you freeview channels too! You don't get that with NOW...
That’s exactly the reason I got sky stream. Considering it’s £26 which is what I got it for that includes basic Sky channels, freeview channels and HD Basic Netflix for £26 I don’t think that’s too bad to be honest
Within the space of 4 months now have sent me offers for £1 pm for movies for 2 months. Took them up on the 1st but forgot the second, they dont last long usually a week to buy.
I have now entertainment and they keep giving me offers every time the one I have is nearly finished they just email me and say we added an offer to my account haven't paid full price for now entertainment in over a year
I’ve ditched sky Q this month. Used to have multi room, UHD, sky f1 - cost £67 a month. Ridiculous! Switched to now tv. Got entertainment and boost (3 streams and HD AD free) for £8.33 a month for next 6 months. That’s £360 saved immediately. For me F1 is a rip off now. £18 a month and you pay for the full 12 months despite there being no races in December - Feb. Stream is too expensive at the minute and the need to have extra boxes is a pain. I like the UI in comparison to NOW - integration with other streaming services is nice too. But I’ll stick with NOW for now.
If can't record like i do with Q then whats the point ? 1. Have give back you Q back wither you go for the Glass or Streem . By force!! 2. Can't record programmes 3. More channels. I think on getting Apple TV. Or Amazon fire stick...for my bedroom.
I moved from Sky Q to Stream. I realised you couldn’t record movies or add them to a playlist. I was watching Crocodile Dundee add it to the playlist. Came back later and I had to pay for it on Netflix or another platform. It was in Ch4. Anyway I ditched it and bought a TV aerial. Totally agree about using 1 streaming service at a time. There is only so much guff to watch….
£12 a money for multi room is a complete racket. You don’t pay multi room for multiple fire sticks or chromecast. Same as you don’t pay extra for UHD from Disney+ or Chromecast.
Shame you can’t mix and match and have Sky Stream boxes instead of miniboxes around the house and keep Sky Q in your lounge. This apparently isn’t currently available.
Really helpful video, thanks. We have terrible TV signal in our area so Freeview is almost non-existent through the aerial. Sounds like Sky Q might be my best bet, value-wise.
I can't see the point of Sky Stream if it doesn't give you the ability to record any programmes on it, which is what most people want, and why most people are happy with Sky Q and Virgin Media.
Most people who watch lots of media now prefer Netflix , Disney + etc. this is to compete with them. It also means sky can scrap off its engineers - no boxes or dishes to install. So way cheaper for sky too.
What sky channels do you get with the entertainment and movie packages are they the same as now tv? I have the now tv stick don't wanna get now stream if they just have the same channels already on now
With Sky Stream (& Sky Glass), you get more entertainment channels. It's more inline with the channel list from Sky Q. And you get HD as standard, so no need to pay extra, unless you're wanting Ultra HD
Good vid for illustrating once again NOT to end up feeling as though you've been mugged. I have two quite full folders on correspondence covering the closing of my account with SKY, many, many, MANY pages that illustrate just how shocking they are when it came, in that instance, FACT; to close the account. To say that one hand did not know what the other was doing is an understatement. 😶Their so called 'customer service' if one could call it that.. proved why we won't do business with SKY ever! Overall if you add up ALL of the average costs / outlay.. can you afford it.. something particularly with the current economic situation ?? 😶I see future wise some radical changes coming because if they want to survive? As you rightly point out, there are a huge number of alternative available AND saving a considerable amount of money in the process. 👀
I can’t imagine who would sign up for Stream, it seems really expensive. I ditched Sky Q in August and subscribed to Now - had a month of Now Entertainment at £9.99 to binge two series, then cancelled it and currently have Now Cinema plus Boost at a total of £7 month (price guaranteed for 6 months)!
Thank you Andy , I found this super usefull . I am thinking about getting Now, but may wait until the New year ,really mainly interested in the Sports option. However , I keep seeing folk saying it is difficult to cancel via your phone , any idea why ? . I will only be using my TV & my phone maybe on a very rare occaision, if at all ?. So glad , you popped up as a reccomendation last week, when I started researching . 🙏
The selling point for me with Sky Stream is the ability to watch UHD content in multiple rooms. It’s the one thing that drives me crazy with Sky Q that only the main box is UHD and the mini boxes aren’t. This causes problems for me and my bro who share a flat together. He likes to watch the F1 in UHD and I like to watch the Football on Sunday in UHD and sometimes they clash. So we got Sky Q multi room so that I could watch the football in UHD in my bedroom, while he uses the living room only to discover after ordering that Sky Q mini boxes aren’t UHD so this didn’t solve the problem at all. I also can’t watch any of the latest UHD shows in my bedroom either and since I mainly use my bedroom while my bro has the living room it means I have to wait until the living rooms free in order to watch TV shows on Sky in UHD. Also I’ve heard that live sports are saved to the cloud if you add them to your playlist if they aren’t available on demand straight after viewing so that’s the only possible issue I would’ve had, as often I have to record evening midweek games or early games on Saturday due to work. For me this means Sky Stream is the most appealing service and I’m not bothered about recording stuff to keep for a long period of time. The ability to watch UHD in multiple rooms is enough for me and that can’t be achieved with Sky Q or Now TV so I’m planning to switch from Sky Q to Sky Stream as soon as it’s available. I’ll likely sign up for 18 months and negotiate a decent price as part of the switch from Sky Q.
I am sure the football is the same in HD as it is in UHD, perhaps you can read the logos on shirts and trainers with that extra bit of definition? Sky stream you have a far better user experience than NOW TV, and far more channels. NowTV does not provide all the entertainment that Sky Q or Sky stream provides.
Hi Andy love your channel, only reason I keep sky is to watch channel 5 (got to get my home & away fix!) is there a way to get c5 on the tv without sky? We’ve got an Xbox
@@BeCleverWithYourCash sorry forgot to mention we can’t get terrestrial channels (new build house, don’t ask) can only watch the app on iPad, won’t let you beam it to the tv or Xbox and the channel 5 Xbox app doesn’t exist sadly
I've had sky sports for £20 a month on now tv for 18 months, just keep threatening to cancel and they extend for 6 months, £1 also for entertainment/boost 😃
When I hear the word sky my blood boils I don't ever ever ever again want to have anything to doo with sky tv, nó bother joining but leaving is going to be some nightmare and the cost of leaving. I strongly advise anyone to stay clear of sky.
My Sky Stream is working flawlessly. I paid £25 for Ultimate, £26 for sport and £5 for UHD. Ad skipping is free for the first year and the UHD channels are superb. A big improvement on Now. (I can't get Sky Q)
@@randlepmcmurphy6117 That has been the case for a long time, although the delay with streaming is obviously longer. There was a delay of a few seconds on analogue satellite compared to good old MW radio!
@@thebaldconvict you can only use now tv on a total of 6 devices. I use 3 pucks at home and the TV with sky glass and 6 devices for sky go and know several family members that do the same. So yes really.
@@richarddcrossley Oh, well you only mentioned 5 devices which would have been fine.... It seems crazy that you need 10 devices to watch TV! In your case then yes for sure Sky Go is a must!
@@thebaldconvict if it worked like BT I wouldn’t but if you can only swap every 30 days. I don’t think it’s that strange as most people might have a living room, kitchen, office and bedroom for sky. My wife and I then use iPad, laptop and iPhone each.
@@richarddcrossley Ah and you have ALL of your devices set up, yeah I don't do do, I just have my tablet on it rather than phone and tablet.... Makes sense.
This guy's prices are all over the place, I'm getting sky ultimate, sports, netflix HD with ads and UHD for £32 a month on stream, they have offered me free Ad skip every month fior the last six , take what he says and half the price and you'll be closer to the actual price
I agree. NOW will never get 4K with stream now available. It’ll also never get a UI improvement either. They want to encourage people to the more “complete” product - which is also more than twice the price
I'm sticking with my easy to use sky hd as I'm a pensioner and the layout is easy My 89 year aunt has sky puck and she refuses to touch the remote, her carer does it all It's so so complicated compared to hd,plus she looses tptv and London Live ,2 of her favourite channels.We are not all wiz kids on technology
Your solution may work for you with binging one streaming service but You can’t do that with sport or with big families just not practical. Now TV is no comparison to Sky Stream there’s no Eurosport or discovery and definitely no 4K. Also if you watch terrestrial through an aerial unless you attach some sort of hdd how do you pause and rewind Freeview channels. If you can’t afford a few quid to pay for some streaming services just stick to freeview and watch your films and programs on an optical drive.
Trouble with sky stream that i've found wile doing research is that you can't get every channel as i was looking to see if it had sky history for it and u can't get it
Really nice video. I have been looking for something my wife can use to watch Asian channels on sky. Unfortunately now tv doesn't offer them. I will look at sky stream and if it has them then I may choose it.
I have both virgin stream and ive just recieved sky stream today..... Virgin is good in that its cheaper it also has a clean interface and allows you to set up your guide just showing the channels u own, however i would not describe it as hd at all... You also must have virgin internet. Sky you can have any internet its the sky q interface pricing is more and many freeview channels missing. I believe there is 18 months deals coming on 18th november. My sky has lost wifi a few times but the picture quality is hd and much better quality than virgin youll also get sky atlantic and a few more premium channels i got mine for 23 a month including netflix and this is availble now at sky unlike the advertised day but youll need to get a 30 day rolling as no 18 month deals as yet. Id personally recomend sky and customer service is uk. When i called virgin i got no where at all.
And those that are thinking of now ( yes now is cheaper no doubt) however its different. This is for people that cant be bothered watching free view and opening an app to view sky channels they want it all in one place...
I like your video you know your stuff , I just like to say that all this technology and channels there are what a pity there are no good programs on them this is why I don't pay for a TV license as I don't watch TV, all I watch is UA-cam, Netflix and play my Nintendo switch on line which is alot cheaper and your find that the younger generation are doing this now as most like me don't watch the crap TV , keep going mate with your good videos.
@@frasersutherland6837 exactly, everyone is different , the layout does look better on sky, but now tv has it all in one place, and for rolling contract prices vs now tv, you get massive savings, if money is not important sky stream, but the climate we are in and the really low offers iv got with now tv, 25 a month for the whack excluding cinema its better money wise.
I have a now tv stick and pay separate for Netflix (6.99]. My broadband alone is £26 with Sky, they have emailed me this offer for Sky stream at £29 per month with no set up fees (includes Netflix). I’m seriously thinking about signing up
Yes I am. I hardly watch Netflix so am not going to pay a higher monthly fee. It’s there just in case I fancy a movie night. To be honest, I can’t notice the difference between SD and HD. It looks the same.
Actually, after reading the email again, it sounds as though the £29 monthly fee is on top of the £26 broadband bringing it to £55 a month!!! No thanks Sky, that’s deffo a rip off
Also kids channels are included in now tv entertainment £9.99 deal or sometimes cheaper with now where as sky charge £5 / now boost also gives you surround sound / unless you what UHD4K then now wins everytime!
If I didn’t have Sky Q I’d go back to now Tv much the better option than Sky stream and you will get offered discounts by email. And for those wanting freeview channels get urself an indoor Aerial of Amazon for £15.
Let's hope SKy stream can be used without tricks outside UKm this would give them lot more revenue. But how can you talk about Sky Stream on 5 Oct when it's released just today?
HI Andy or anybody in fact . I posted a question earlier ..Sadly a 🤡 replied to it . Does anybody know why I keep being told that it is very difficult to cancel NOW using your Smart phone , MOBILE * obviously ...I am thinking of getting it . But I don't use my laptop anymore just my Smart phone ( MOBILE * ) I will use NOW on my new TV 4K OLED etc.....but I want to use the tips Andy suggests & cancel to get a discount ....Thank you .
You should be fine to change or cancel your membership. The app might not work but just go into your account via the browser. I’ve done this recently no problem!
@@BeCleverWithYourCash Thank you very much , I appreciate your response . So glad your channel popped up in my recomendations last week, Some excellent tips. 🙏.
I’d pay more for no ads to be honest. Especially when you have to wait to skip unlike on normal sky boxes where you zap through them. I often get offered boost for £1 a month. Well worth it!
I have now tv with entertainment and sports and boost all discount price £31 a month , plus my talk talk internet £32 a month , sky stream with sports and sky broadband quoted at £59 , now tv stream is awful on sports , anyone recommend the sky deal or stay as I am
It's too messy with Now TV to view some channels through Now some via Freeview. The huge advantage with SKY is everything is in one place. I needed a new tv so I have Sky Glass which is superb.
Ditches sky so have the box and can still get non sky channels ( can’t afford) so probably go now sport monthly. Do you get better discounts if your on two months or three months before you drop out. You say haggle but how do you haggle on e mail or do you talk to a human being? I,m 80s …been with sky 19 years and not a haggler !
Now tv is terrible quality especially on apple tv (read the reviews) . I got sky stream on an 18 month contract ultra hd Dolby Atmos all bells and whistles for £27 pm . They waived the charge for the box too . Believe me don't get now tv as it's cheap for a reason .
The NowTV Entertainment package may be £9.99, but you only get 16 extra channels in HD (if you pay the extra £5, so £14.99 really). On Sky Stream you get over 100 HD channels as standard with an option to boost many of them to 4K. So NowTV isn’t actually that good in comparison, if anything that’s the one that’s overpriced, not Sky Stream.
@@bujin1977 that’s irrelevant because it’s not about me personally, it’s about how many options you get for what you pay for. As a standard rate, you pay about 93p per HD channel on NowTV. On Sky’s standard HD selection you pay around 60p per HD channel and also get more channels.
@@ReaderMeetAuthor It's entirely relevant if you're paying for a whole load of channels that you'll never watch while you can access the channels you *do* watch for less money overall, even if the cost per individual channel is higher.
@@bujin1977 No it isn’t because the question is about value for money, but in any case I watch way more channels than the 16 offered by NowTV, put it that way
Sky stream will take your money and give you no box. Then they will take small amounts of money off your card. Absolutely don't spend money with these criminals. I dont know how they get away with all this theft. Ive already called the law and filed a report .
I v got rid of sky and gone for now app all Channels I watch are there got fire tv 40” and haven’t looked back all streaming channels on there for free Pluto ranken tv plex tv x bbc iPlayer all 4 my 5 uk tv play you name it all on there free to stream sky needs to rethink there policy because they will be left behind they been to greedy and now they got competition out there
I was looking forward to trying sky stream but think I'll give it a miss as it's a complete rip off, especially with all there stupid £5 charges for things that should be standard. God knows why there throwing Netflix in SD in there Ultimate package, I mean who the hell want's that as most already have the full Netflix package, they definitely need to make there packages more flexible and cheaper. I've currently got BT TV Pro box with now TV Entertainment package in HD and can record any show I want, fast forward and rewind etc and it's costing around £16 per month, has pretty much exactly the same channels as Sky stream ultimate with the exception of Discovery content, I subscribe to Discovery plus separately and get all there content. I also have Apple TV box 4k and there subscription at £4.99 per month (bargain!) Prime video and top of the range Netflix subscription. All of that content combined comes in at just under £50 per month, just goes to show stream is a rip off. Also very importantly which sky don't mention either is say you miss a show on Discovery that you like, you've added it to your list and want to watch it later, you press the watch button and it redirects you to the app to watch which would be Discovery plus, Discovery plus is NOT included in the package even though your paying for Discovery content in your package! That content is another £6.99 per month. This is where Sky are dumb, Discovery plus in HD with the Eurosport catch up service should be included in the ultimate package and ditch the shitty Netflix in SD which literally nobody wants. Another problem with stream is ITV, say you've missed the voice for example and you've added to your list in itv HD, you push the watch button and it redirects you to the truly horrendous ITV app where everything is in standard definition and has a million commercials in it, it's awful. So for me I've got everything I need and can record and fast forward etc and have catch up if needed. If sky stream was recordable then that would have been a much better solution but the way it works quite frankly is crap. My BT TV Pro box is essentially a streaming box and can record, so why can't sky do that? Probably cause they get more money out of these criminal £5 charges all over the place.
Netflix UHD is £8 a month via Sky Stream so I am saving 50% on what I was paying Netflix. Adskip is free for a year. I have a 31-day rolling contract so can cancel and change just as easy as I could with now. ITV X is launching soon so that should sort another problem. It is an excellent bit of kit, and I am very happy with it.
@@hughie501 Oh ok I wasn’t aware Netflix was that cheap for UHD, does that come with Atmos too? Maybe that’s where they stitch us with the £5 extra which would make it the same price I’m paying already per month directly with Netflix. I obviously get HDR, Dolby vision and Atmos on my oled with Netflix. ITV x sounds interesting I hope it will be better than the current awful itv hub and it also shows programs in HD. It’s good to hear you got one already and would like to hear you overall thoughts on the device and very importantly what’s the Discovery situation like if you add something to your list, does it divert you to Discovery plus? Just want to know if it’s included. I must admit I do like the sound of having freeview through the internet as opposed to a Ariel lead, that’s a plus.
@@OGUfohunter There as £5 a month charge for UHD/Atmos as part of the Sky sub. I was paying £15.99 to Netflix. When I got Sky Stream, I just entered my details and I now pay £8 to Sky and nothing to Netflix. Yes, it does include Atmos. I haven't watched anything on Discovery yet. Netflix and BBC Iplayer are both superb in UHD. I will be watching some UHD football over the weekend so I will see how that goes. I don't have a Freeview signal and the dish on the flats is not suitable for Sky Q so this is a great device for me.
Read more here becleverwithyourcash.com/sky-stream-will-it-save-you-money/
Ģood for you!
I think the important thing here is that similar to Tesco Sky are trying to offer Value, Finest, Regular etc. For me the fact that the Sky Stream can pull in all my subscriptions into 1 UI and I can watch in multiple rooms without having to have an aerial in every room which was the reason I got Q even though it often failed.
As Andy says if it's about saving money then NOW is the best offer, but if it's the user experience, having everything in one place without having to switch between apps/hdmi then Stream seems good.
Ultimately I think Sky will only offer Stream like services in the future be that NOW or Glass/Stream
I'm with now for several years always under offers from your old advice and I absolutely love it. I'm sticking with Now TV, I have it on three apple tv boxes around my home
Don't you realize that your paying for boost on apple tv and they don't even give you the 5.1 surrounded .
I was a long term Sky customer and had a pretty good deal, but the lack of flexibility and the fact I no longer wanted a monthly bill prompted me to look into other options, I cancelled Sky TV and I now have NOW via several devices, I only paid full price for Sky Sports, Entertainment and Movies at the start, when I attempted to cancel these packages I got really good offers including Sky Sports for £19.99 per Month, to cover the Freeview issue I bought a recordable Freeview box for a little under £200, but that's because I like to actually record programmes and not rely on catch up services, I highly recommend NOW
I was paying £88 for Virgin with broadband, just the entertainment channels. I cancelled their TV package and now use NowTV, currently paying £3.99 a month for Entertainment, £5 Boost, £2 Sky Cinema and £20 Sky Sports. I also have Disney which I got through Tesco Clubcard, free Apple TV with my phone contract and my sons pay for Prime and Netflix. I can’t watch that much TV!!
Sounds like you have the best package on here lol
Fr! Virgin is a beast not sure how they are still in business
@@bellefemme6677 I think until someone else can match their internet speed as that is the only thing keeping them alive.
If you don’t have an aerial, just get the various apps on your tv (BBC, ITV, C4 etc). Works fine.
The good thing about Now TV is when you try and cancel they want to retain their customers so they will frequently give out discounts. I had Sky Sports for £17 in August compared to £33.
Did that with me when I cancelled I got now cinema now entertainment and boost for £9.98 a month for six months
Hi Andy. How do I watch live terrestrial TV (BBC, ITV, Channel 4 etc) via wifi and be able to flick through the channels without having to use BBC iplayer or ITV Hub etc. (I have an Apple TV and fire TV so I can get all the apps). I've just moved my living room around and now the TV isn't close to the sat dish so I don't want to run cables across the floor to the TV.
For convenience sky stream is the easiest albeit an expensive option right? Although you did just mention Virgin or BT TV as I'm writing this.
I’ve had Sky Stream for just over a week now and love it. Had now TV a while ago but the fact it doesn’t have 4K really put me off.
Important thing to mention that Netflix is included with sky stream and if you have sky broadband, your broadband gets discounted from £30 to £17 so the Netflix saving and broadband saving combined makes it a no brainer compared to now tv
Only 1 device with 720p
I guess you'd recommend sky broadband? What's the customer service like if things go wrong?
@@Kristosdee never had any problems with customer service from Sky
I asked this question yesterday but cannot find it in the comments, therefore I am asking in a different way. Which box would you recommend, Andy to enable multiple recordings? Thank you in advance.
For people who don't have aerials, such as people who live in new build homes or apartment blocks, Sky Stream is the perfect solution which gives you freeview channels too! You don't get that with NOW...
That’s exactly the reason I got sky stream. Considering it’s £26 which is what I got it for that includes basic Sky channels, freeview channels and HD Basic Netflix for £26 I don’t think that’s too bad to be honest
I come away from the video just thinking that Sky is super expensive...
Within the space of 4 months now have sent me offers for £1 pm for movies for 2 months. Took them up on the 1st but forgot the second, they dont last long usually a week to buy.
And you’re not wrong
I have now entertainment and they keep giving me offers every time the one I have is nearly finished they just email me and say we added an offer to my account haven't paid full price for now entertainment in over a year
@@paulbentley81 yh now tv is great bought all of the subscriptions on there and good price as well
I’ve ditched sky Q this month. Used to have multi room, UHD, sky f1 - cost £67 a month. Ridiculous!
Switched to now tv. Got entertainment and boost (3 streams and HD AD free) for £8.33 a month for next 6 months.
That’s £360 saved immediately.
For me F1 is a rip off now. £18 a month and you pay for the full 12 months despite there being no races in December - Feb.
Stream is too expensive at the minute and the need to have extra boxes is a pain. I like the UI in comparison to NOW - integration with other streaming services is nice too. But I’ll stick with NOW for now.
If can't record like i do with Q then whats the point ?
1. Have give back you Q back wither you go for the Glass or Streem . By force!!
2. Can't record programmes
3. More channels.
I think on getting Apple TV. Or Amazon fire stick...for my bedroom.
How good does your broadband connection speed need to be? What about if 3 users want to watch all at the same time?
I moved from Sky Q to Stream. I realised you couldn’t record movies or add them to a playlist. I was watching Crocodile Dundee add it to the playlist. Came back later and I had to pay for it on Netflix or another platform. It was in Ch4. Anyway I ditched it and bought a TV aerial. Totally agree about using 1 streaming service at a time. There is only so much guff to watch….
Helpful video tks. Can non sky apps be downloaded on it. Racing TV for example?
£12 a money for multi room is a complete racket. You don’t pay multi room for multiple fire sticks or chromecast. Same as you don’t pay extra for UHD from Disney+ or Chromecast.
It is expensive. If you have Virgin broadband Virgin do a free stream box now.
Shame you can’t mix and match and have Sky Stream boxes instead of miniboxes around the house and keep Sky Q in your lounge. This apparently isn’t currently available.
Biggest difference for me is no 4K on Now TV. Which off course is exactly what Sky Wants :), to drive you to Sky Street or Sky Glass.
Really helpful video, thanks. We have terrible TV signal in our area so Freeview is almost non-existent through the aerial. Sounds like Sky Q might be my best bet, value-wise.
Got my sky stream yesterday, loving it
Currently getting Sky Cinema pass & Sky entertainment pass for £5 each for 6 months & Sky Sports for £25 per for 6 months. Nowtv is quite reasonable.
Now vouchers are the way to go, if you have a sat-tv you get freeview channels with your old Sky Disk...
Got sky q but thinking of getting Now entertainment for bedroom if I can get offered a cheap deal when I've had it for a month
How do you get extra streaming channels on both?
I can't see the point of Sky Stream if it doesn't give you the ability to record any programmes on it, which is what most people want, and why most people are happy with Sky Q and Virgin Media.
Most people who watch lots of media now prefer Netflix , Disney + etc. this is to compete with them. It also means sky can scrap off its engineers - no boxes or dishes to install. So way cheaper for sky too.
I wish that Now TV had a UHD option, but that's only available on Sky Stream :(
What sky channels do you get with the entertainment and movie packages are they the same as now tv? I have the now tv stick don't wanna get now stream if they just have the same channels already on now
With Sky Stream (& Sky Glass), you get more entertainment channels. It's more inline with the channel list from Sky Q. And you get HD as standard, so no need to pay extra, unless you're wanting Ultra HD
Good vid for illustrating once again NOT to end up feeling as though you've been mugged. I have two quite full folders on correspondence covering the closing of my account with SKY, many, many, MANY pages that illustrate just how shocking they are when it came, in that instance, FACT; to close the account. To say that one hand did not know what the other was doing is an understatement. 😶Their so called 'customer service' if one could call it that.. proved why we won't do business with SKY ever! Overall if you add up ALL of the average costs / outlay.. can you afford it.. something particularly with the current economic situation ?? 😶I see future wise some radical changes coming because if they want to survive? As you rightly point out, there are a huge number of alternative available AND saving a considerable amount of money in the process. 👀
Is now tv portable, like multi room , to take to a holiday home for example
I can’t imagine who would sign up for Stream, it seems really expensive. I ditched Sky Q in August and subscribed to Now - had a month of Now Entertainment at £9.99 to binge two series, then cancelled it and currently have Now Cinema plus Boost at a total of £7 month (price guaranteed for 6 months)!
Great advice! love these videos but always feel like I'm watching at 15fps or something. Or is that just me?
Not just you, me too!
Hmm, I thought I’d fixed it for this video. Having some tech issues since I moved to a laptop but hopefully can get these fixed
@@BeCleverWithYourCash Thanks! Really appreciate the content nonetheless, been saving me money!
Thank you Andy , I found this super usefull . I am thinking about getting Now, but may wait until the New year ,really mainly interested in the Sports option. However , I keep seeing folk saying it is difficult to cancel via your phone , any idea why ? .
I will only be using my TV & my phone maybe on a very rare occaision, if at all ?.
So glad , you popped up as a reccomendation last week, when I started researching .
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Now is online only so you cancel on your account or live chat..there’s no phone numbers
@@ieddymorrison I meant my Mobile phone ( Smart ) obviously .....🙄
I will stick to my dodgy box thanks 🤣🤣🤣
The selling point for me with Sky Stream is the ability to watch UHD content in multiple rooms. It’s the one thing that drives me crazy with Sky Q that only the main box is UHD and the mini boxes aren’t.
This causes problems for me and my bro who share a flat together. He likes to watch the F1 in UHD and I like to watch the Football on Sunday in UHD and sometimes they clash.
So we got Sky Q multi room so that I could watch the football in UHD in my bedroom, while he uses the living room only to discover after ordering that Sky Q mini boxes aren’t UHD so this didn’t solve the problem at all.
I also can’t watch any of the latest UHD shows in my bedroom either and since I mainly use my bedroom while my bro has the living room it means I have to wait until the living rooms free in order to watch TV shows on Sky in UHD.
Also I’ve heard that live sports are saved to the cloud if you add them to your playlist if they aren’t available on demand straight after viewing so that’s the only possible issue I would’ve had, as often I have to record evening midweek games or early games on Saturday due to work.
For me this means Sky Stream is the most appealing service and I’m not bothered about recording stuff to keep for a long period of time.
The ability to watch UHD in multiple rooms is enough for me and that can’t be achieved with Sky Q or Now TV so I’m planning to switch from Sky Q to Sky Stream as soon as it’s available. I’ll likely sign up for 18 months and negotiate a decent price as part of the switch from Sky Q.
I am sure the football is the same in HD as it is in UHD, perhaps you can read the logos on shirts and trainers with that extra bit of definition? Sky stream you have a far better user experience than NOW TV, and far more channels. NowTV does not provide all the entertainment that Sky Q or Sky stream provides.
Right now even with now you getting entertainment pass with movies for 15 and sports 25 for 6 months it's a lot cheaper than Sky stream .
Hi Andy love your channel, only reason I keep sky is to watch channel 5 (got to get my home & away fix!) is there a way to get c5 on the tv without sky? We’ve got an Xbox
Yep, do you have a normal TV aerial? Plug that into your tv and you’ll get 5. Or there’s the app which has watch live and catch up
@@BeCleverWithYourCash sorry forgot to mention we can’t get terrestrial channels (new build house, don’t ask) can only watch the app on iPad, won’t let you beam it to the tv or Xbox and the channel 5 Xbox app doesn’t exist sadly
I've had sky sports for £20 a month on now tv for 18 months, just keep threatening to cancel and they extend for 6 months, £1 also for entertainment/boost 😃
When I hear the word sky my blood boils I don't ever ever ever again want to have anything to doo with sky tv, nó bother joining but leaving is going to be some nightmare and the cost of leaving. I strongly advise anyone to stay clear of sky.
My Sky Stream is working flawlessly. I paid £25 for Ultimate, £26 for sport and £5 for UHD. Ad skipping is free for the first year and the UHD channels are superb. A big improvement on Now. (I can't get Sky Q)
I got mine for 23 ;)
It’s delayed coverage though which is a huge pain in the arse watching live sports.
@@randlepmcmurphy6117 That has been the case for a long time, although the delay with streaming is obviously longer. There was a delay of a few seconds on analogue satellite compared to good old MW radio!
@@hughie501 Yeah true, but it’s still a pain in the arse especially at shortest it’s a 60 seconds delay.
@@randlepmcmurphy6117 just checked with sky news time against my phone .. its 24 seconds behind.
Does the subscription include BT Sports?
No, as ever, you’ve got to pay more
Could of cut your video short by saying basically it's like sky with a dish but will cost more in the long run...
do you get 4k/UHD sports with sky stream?
If you pay for UHD yes.
Good summary. One big thing you are forgetting is sky go. I’ve got sky glass with 3 pucks but also use sky go lots on my iPad and iPhone.
Well the NowTV app is on your iPad and iPhone surely so no not really.
@@thebaldconvict you can only use now tv on a total of 6 devices. I use 3 pucks at home and the TV with sky glass and 6 devices for sky go and know several family members that do the same. So yes really.
@@richarddcrossley Oh, well you only mentioned 5 devices which would have been fine.... It seems crazy that you need 10 devices to watch TV!
In your case then yes for sure Sky Go is a must!
@@thebaldconvict if it worked like BT I wouldn’t but if you can only swap every 30 days. I don’t think it’s that strange as most people might have a living room, kitchen, office and bedroom for sky. My wife and I then use iPad, laptop and iPhone each.
@@richarddcrossley Ah and you have ALL of your devices set up, yeah I don't do do, I just have my tablet on it rather than phone and tablet.... Makes sense.
This guy's prices are all over the place, I'm getting sky ultimate, sports, netflix HD with ads and UHD for £32 a month on stream, they have offered me free Ad skip every month fior the last six , take what he says and half the price and you'll be closer to the actual price
Now doesn’t offer 4K and I find the Sky UI much better
I agree. NOW will never get 4K with stream now available. It’ll also never get a UI improvement either. They want to encourage people to the more “complete” product - which is also more than twice the price
Best to wait for Black Friday/ Xmas deals
Sky and Virgin will definitely be competing for customers during that period with Variety of offers to tempt customers
Black Friday deals are actually on now
I'm sticking with my easy to use sky hd as I'm a pensioner and the layout is easy My 89 year aunt has sky puck and she refuses to touch the remote, her carer does it all It's so so complicated compared to hd,plus she looses tptv and London Live ,2 of her favourite channels.We are not all wiz kids on technology
Your solution may work for you with binging one streaming service but You can’t do that with sport or with big families just not practical. Now TV is no comparison to Sky Stream there’s no Eurosport or discovery and definitely no 4K. Also if you watch terrestrial through an aerial unless you attach some sort of hdd how do you pause and rewind Freeview channels. If you can’t afford a few quid to pay for some streaming services just stick to freeview and watch your films and programs on an optical drive.
Great tips and information as always!!
Trouble with sky stream that i've found wile doing research is that you can't get every channel
as i was looking to see if it had sky history for it and u can't get it
Really nice video.
I have been looking for something my wife can use to watch Asian channels on sky. Unfortunately now tv doesn't offer them. I will look at sky stream and if it has them then I may choose it.
I have both virgin stream and ive just recieved sky stream today.....
Virgin is good in that its cheaper it also has a clean interface and allows you to set up your guide just showing the channels u own, however i would not describe it as hd at all... You also must have virgin internet. Sky you can have any internet its the sky q interface pricing is more and many freeview channels missing. I believe there is 18 months deals coming on 18th november. My sky has lost wifi a few times but the picture quality is hd and much better quality than virgin youll also get sky atlantic and a few more premium channels i got mine for 23 a month including netflix and this is availble now at sky unlike the advertised day but youll need to get a 30 day rolling as no 18 month deals as yet. Id personally recomend sky and customer service is uk. When i called virgin i got no where at all.
And those that are thinking of now ( yes now is cheaper no doubt) however its different. This is for people that cant be bothered watching free view and opening an app to view sky channels they want it all in one place...
We pay 79 quid for sky stream ultra hd full package it’s awesome for the footie unreal quality
Cheers for the video 😊
Can I add sky stream to my normal sky as I would like this as my multi room?
Nope
I like your video you know your stuff , I just like to say that all this technology and channels there are what a pity there are no good programs on them this is why I don't pay for a TV license as I don't watch TV, all I watch is UA-cam, Netflix and play my Nintendo switch on line which is alot cheaper and your find that the younger generation are doing this now as most like me don't watch the crap TV , keep going mate with your good videos.
Now TV is the best option...
Just one question as a 31 year old, what is and who still watches TV?
The only benefit of sky stream is UHD and 4K , sky stream is more expensive. That's the only difference.
@@frasersutherland6837 exactly, everyone is different , the layout does look better on sky, but now tv has it all in one place, and for rolling contract prices vs now tv, you get massive savings, if money is not important sky stream, but the climate we are in and the really low offers iv got with now tv, 25 a month for the whack excluding cinema its better money wise.
Had Now TV for a while - now using the app instead of Roku box - paying £3.99 for entertainment and £4.99 for cinema
Trust me NOW is way better than any other. Cheaper and serving quality ever since
I downgraded Netflix and cant see the differences, i mostly watch on ipad anyway.
I can pause and rewind on NOW TV when I'm watching live sport.
Yeah, though it does time out (as I’ve unfortunately experienced)
I think now TV is good so many offers sky and Virgin media so expensive
I have a now tv stick and pay separate for Netflix (6.99]. My broadband alone is £26 with Sky, they have emailed me this offer for Sky stream at £29 per month with no set up fees (includes Netflix). I’m seriously thinking about signing up
Please tell me you’re not on the basic Netflix package
Yes I am. I hardly watch Netflix so am not going to pay a higher monthly fee. It’s there just in case I fancy a movie night. To be honest, I can’t notice the difference between SD and HD. It looks the same.
Actually, after reading the email again, it sounds as though the £29 monthly fee is on top of the £26 broadband bringing it to £55 a month!!! No thanks Sky, that’s deffo a rip off
They just added ads in between catch up on demand tv shows on sky glass/stream hardly premium you don’t even get that on now tv with boost
Also kids channels are included in now tv entertainment £9.99 deal or sometimes cheaper with now where as sky charge £5 / now boost also gives you surround sound / unless you what UHD4K then now wins everytime!
Kid content are more important than you imagine :)))
SKY STREAM: It cannot record programs or schedule recordings (and there is nothing written on the Sky website about this "lost" functionality)
Great work thanks
Iptv is king
If I didn’t have Sky Q I’d go back to now Tv much the better option than Sky stream and you will get offered discounts by email. And for those wanting freeview channels get urself an indoor Aerial of Amazon for £15.
Seems to me that Sky is a magic money tree for themselves….
Let's hope SKy stream can be used without tricks outside UKm this would give them lot more revenue. But how can you talk about Sky Stream on 5 Oct when it's released just today?
You need to use it with a VPN. Buy a VPN built-in router.
very good thank you
HI Andy or anybody in fact . I posted a question earlier ..Sadly a 🤡 replied to it .
Does anybody know why I keep being told that it is very difficult to cancel NOW using your Smart phone , MOBILE * obviously ...I am thinking of getting it . But I don't use my laptop anymore just my Smart phone ( MOBILE * ) I will use NOW on my new TV 4K OLED etc.....but I want to use the tips Andy suggests & cancel to get a discount ....Thank you .
You should be fine to change or cancel your membership. The app might not work but just go into your account via the browser. I’ve done this recently no problem!
@@BeCleverWithYourCash Thank you very much , I appreciate your response . So glad your channel popped up in my recomendations last week, Some excellent tips. 🙏.
Got a deal that gives me NOW TV for 3.99 a month for 6 months. It's without Boost but I don't think Boost is that necessary
I’d pay more for no ads to be honest. Especially when you have to wait to skip unlike on normal sky boxes where you zap through them.
I often get offered boost for £1 a month. Well worth it!
@@jrewillis if you download the shows, there are no ads
Virgin M plus account just went up😉😉😉😉 2.02%
Nationwide switch is 200 quid mate
"Money expert" Andy Webb skrimps out of using frames in videos in order to save cash!
I have now tv with entertainment and sports and boost all discount price £31 a month , plus my talk talk internet £32 a month , sky stream with sports and sky broadband quoted at £59 , now tv stream is awful on sports , anyone recommend the sky deal or stay as I am
Can you take your Now tv with you for your caravan ?
It's too messy with Now TV to view some channels through Now some via Freeview. The huge advantage with SKY is everything is in one place. I needed a new tv so I have Sky Glass which is superb.
Or get IPTV
Ditches sky so have the box and can still get non sky channels ( can’t afford) so probably go now sport monthly. Do you get better discounts if your on two months or three months before you drop out. You say haggle but how do you haggle on e mail or do you talk to a human being? I,m 80s …been with sky 19 years and not a haggler !
Now tv is terrible quality especially on apple tv (read the reviews) . I got sky stream on an 18 month contract ultra hd Dolby Atmos all bells and whistles for £27 pm . They waived the charge for the box too . Believe me don't get now tv as it's cheap for a reason .
The NowTV Entertainment package may be £9.99, but you only get 16 extra channels in HD (if you pay the extra £5, so £14.99 really). On Sky Stream you get over 100 HD channels as standard with an option to boost many of them to 4K. So NowTV isn’t actually that good in comparison, if anything that’s the one that’s overpriced, not Sky Stream.
How many of those 100+ channels do you watch?
@@bujin1977 that’s irrelevant because it’s not about me personally, it’s about how many options you get for what you pay for. As a standard rate, you pay about 93p per HD channel on NowTV. On Sky’s standard HD selection you pay around 60p per HD channel and also get more channels.
@@ReaderMeetAuthor It's entirely relevant if you're paying for a whole load of channels that you'll never watch while you can access the channels you *do* watch for less money overall, even if the cost per individual channel is higher.
@@bujin1977 No it isn’t because the question is about value for money, but in any case I watch way more channels than the 16 offered by NowTV, put it that way
@@ReaderMeetAuthor It's not relevant for you. It is for some people.
Please make a video on Barclays' Rainy Day Saver
Don't bother with this ranny day, no point getting 5% in 5000. You are better of in virgin M plus at 2.02 % in 25000.
There’s already one! ua-cam.com/video/MmSpCZfcC0E/v-deo.html
Or both!
Sky stream will take your money and give you no box. Then they will take small amounts of money off your card. Absolutely don't spend money with these criminals. I dont know how they get away with all this theft. Ive already called the law and filed a report .
I,m killing sky and at 83 can’t afford sky but would like sky sport now but I can’t negotiate !! No way sky stream !
Just buy an Apple TV
Simple solution that has Now tv and all the rest!
I v got rid of sky and gone for now app all Channels I watch are there got fire tv 40” and haven’t looked back all streaming channels on there for free Pluto ranken tv plex tv x bbc iPlayer all 4 my 5 uk tv play you name it all on there free to stream sky needs to rethink there policy because they will be left behind they been to greedy and now they got competition out there
I was looking forward to trying sky stream but think I'll give it a miss as it's a complete rip off, especially with all there stupid £5 charges for things that should be standard. God knows why there throwing Netflix in SD in there Ultimate package, I mean who the hell want's that as most already have the full Netflix package, they definitely need to make there packages more flexible and cheaper. I've currently got BT TV Pro box with now TV Entertainment package in HD and can record any show I want, fast forward and rewind etc and it's costing around £16 per month, has pretty much exactly the same channels as Sky stream ultimate with the exception of Discovery content, I subscribe to Discovery plus separately and get all there content. I also have Apple TV box 4k and there subscription at £4.99 per month (bargain!) Prime video and top of the range Netflix subscription. All of that content combined comes in at just under £50 per month, just goes to show stream is a rip off. Also very importantly which sky don't mention either is say you miss a show on Discovery that you like, you've added it to your list and want to watch it later, you press the watch button and it redirects you to the app to watch which would be Discovery plus, Discovery plus is NOT included in the package even though your paying for Discovery content in your package! That content is another £6.99 per month. This is where Sky are dumb, Discovery plus in HD with the Eurosport catch up service should be included in the ultimate package and ditch the shitty Netflix in SD which literally nobody wants. Another problem with stream is ITV, say you've missed the voice for example and you've added to your list in itv HD, you push the watch button and it redirects you to the truly horrendous ITV app where everything is in standard definition and has a million commercials in it, it's awful. So for me I've got everything I need and can record and fast forward etc and have catch up if needed. If sky stream was recordable then that would have been a much better solution but the way it works quite frankly is crap. My BT TV Pro box is essentially a streaming box and can record, so why can't sky do that? Probably cause they get more money out of these criminal £5 charges all over the place.
Netflix UHD is £8 a month via Sky Stream so I am saving 50% on what I was paying Netflix. Adskip is free for a year. I have a 31-day rolling contract so can cancel and change just as easy as I could with now. ITV X is launching soon so that should sort another problem. It is an excellent bit of kit, and I am very happy with it.
@@hughie501 Oh ok I wasn’t aware Netflix was that cheap for UHD, does that come with Atmos too? Maybe that’s where they stitch us with the £5 extra which would make it the same price I’m paying already per month directly with Netflix. I obviously get HDR, Dolby vision and Atmos on my oled with Netflix. ITV x sounds interesting I hope it will be better than the current awful itv hub and it also shows programs in HD. It’s good to hear you got one already and would like to hear you overall thoughts on the device and very importantly what’s the Discovery situation like if you add something to your list, does it divert you to Discovery plus? Just want to know if it’s included. I must admit I do like the sound of having freeview through the internet as opposed to a Ariel lead, that’s a plus.
@@OGUfohunter There as £5 a month charge for UHD/Atmos as part of the Sky sub. I was paying £15.99 to Netflix. When I got Sky Stream, I just entered my details and I now pay £8 to Sky and nothing to Netflix. Yes, it does include Atmos. I haven't watched anything on Discovery yet. Netflix and BBC Iplayer are both superb in UHD. I will be watching some UHD football over the weekend so I will see how that goes. I don't have a Freeview signal and the dish on the flats is not suitable for Sky Q so this is a great device for me.
Just to add, I have just selected Deadliest Catch and it just loads and plays from the cloud (I assume|). Certainly, no new app opened.
@@hughie501 Ok oh ok I wasn’t aware it would do that, that’s great news. I might give it a try when it comes out. thanks for your feedback 👍