They recently added IP-based on-demand content under the Anytime+ banner (well, they recently added it for people not using Sky broadband..). It seems to have a lot of decent HD content, and works well (starts streaming fairly quicky, no buffering) - but discovering content is a nightmare - so much that I basically don't use it.
They really, really need either an addition to the smartphone/tablet apps which allows search/discovery of on-demand content, or (preferably and) a search facility on the web.
We seem to be at a point (which has itself taken an age to arrive) where a lot of content is available to legally stream, but the usability isn't there yet. Sky also just added BBC iPlayer to my box, and it is pretty near useless trying to use it with a remote control, unless the thing you want to watch is on the front page (and even then it is several clicks away).
Let us control all of this from an app. I understand that Sky have an iPad app which allows control of the planner, but i'm not sure that it does this yet. And it is not available for Android.
And then there is Lovefilm.. I also subscribe to them, for a discs+streaming plan - partly because I use them a lot to rent XBOX/PS3 games. Their streaming catalogue seems to be growing, although much of it is still in pretty naff SD quality.
Their website is also next to useless for searching content. If I search for a TV show which they stream then:
- It lists every episode, with no breakdown by season etc
- I cannot mark things down, in any way, to watch later. If you can also rent a physical copy then you can add to your list, but TV show epidoes do not have this option... So I have to literally bookmark things I want to stream later - and that doesn't help if I'm not using the web to stream them
- Speaking of which... they don't have a streaming client for Android yet. Well, they do if you use a Kindle Fire (which is based on Android), but it is artificially limited to that device.
