Sky stream v Sky satellite

28 seconds.

surely Sky have moved on from the days of steam ?

28 secs from live..20 secs behind satellite ATR..not much good for foto finishes then

surely Sky have moved on from the days of steam ?

its progressed from satellite to stream TTT.

On rare occasions Sporting Life will have the result up before they cross the line on Sky Stream!

BT Sports are even further behind on the Sky Satellite

Some days it makes no difference

makes playing on photo's no possible.

Jun 8, 2026 -- 3:04PM, TameTheTiger wrote:

surely Sky have moved on from the days of steam ?

Yes,they have gone to the Stone Age

Streaming will always be about 20 seconds behind aerial or satelite.

They keep saying technology will improve it when talking about going full streaming and get rid of the aerials and satelites but it never does.

BLV ?

for photo's?  cant freeze it

As far as Sky are concerned, satellites, dishes and recording boxes such as Q are all defunct. New customers are all pushed down the Streaming route. Same with Virgin and all their recording boxes. Presumably in a few years it will all be streaming only. Much cheaper for those companies, they don't like you fast-forwarding through ads and couldn't give a monkeys that the sport you're watching is 30 secs+ behind live.

OBS ?

virgin still supplying cable fed boxes.

Hugo-Hackenbush 08 Jun 26 18:13 
virgin still supplying cable fed boxes.


To some extent, yes. Useful article here from a year ago.
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https://www.cordbusters.co.uk/tv-recording-dying-these-still-work/

Virgin were way behind Sky the last I heard

Record on OBS stop recording play back hth.

virgin media ATR 9 secs behind sky ATR.

I just did a test on my (v old) virgin box - Sky Sports Racing exactly 16 secs behind BLV for the last race at Chester

my sky ATR is 8 secs behind BLV so 10 behind live..VM 19 behind live... hard for in running..

Bear in mind that BFLV is 1.8 secs behind live at Chester,GB

1.6 behind.

It's still 8L behind

Indeed. Maybe the old Virgin Tivo box is 1 sec faster than a newer model ? Not that it really matters for horse racing in-running but worth knowing for other sports on Sky Sports

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football

Virgin Media
Freeview +1 sec
Sky +3 sec