SKY Q

C.J · Nov 18, 2015

Sky Q is due to launch early 2016. It looks to replace its current offering, allowing multi room (without each room requiring dish connectivity), 5 channel viewing and WiFi streaming to other rooms.

Prices aren't released yet, but it'll include a 2TB box and be UHD Ready.

The fact it's UHD ready, means finally, we won't be limited to 720p - the biggest downfall of the current offering IMO. The new OS looks pretty nice too.

I have SKY, so this is a welcomed update.

http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/sky-q/overview

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...t-you-need-to-know-about-Skys-new-TV-box.html

http://www.techradar.com/news/television/first-impression-sky-q-1309224

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34855857

C.J · Nov 18, 2015

Gally · Nov 18, 2015

I'm excited! I don't know why yet but I am!

Sadly my renewal is up this moth so probably won't upgrade until next December.

C.J · Nov 18, 2015

gally said:
I'm excited! I don't know why yet but I am!

Sadly my renewal is up this moth so probably won't upgrade until next December.

Do you have to renew? Mine is up in January, but I assumed I could hold off, and it'll just roll over monthly.

masekwm · Nov 18, 2015

You roll monthly at full price or year to year at 50%/75%/100% off

Gally · Nov 18, 2015

I'm £25 a month every 12 months for the full package. I could go rolling for a few months but might be may before it rolls out!

AdDaMan · Nov 18, 2015

Awesome!

Daz. · Nov 18, 2015

NEEEEEEEEEEEED!

LeeRS · Nov 18, 2015

£25 a month for the full package?
Are you offering special sucky sucky for that price?
I pay £57 for internet, line rental and variety bundle.

Gally · Nov 18, 2015

Just need to know the right people.

Daz. · Nov 18, 2015

gally said:
Just need to know the right people.

Always liked you

masekwm · Nov 18, 2015

I just cancel at the end of the 12 months. Pretend I'm leaving and they'll make an offer either via the MySky website, on the phone or by outbound calls. You need to have agreed to Sky Marketing for them to call you. This year it was 50% off and £50 cashback.

aucky · Nov 18, 2015

I'm about to move house.

I wonder, if I cancel, and sign up at the new address as a new customer, will I get new customer benefits?

DannyR · Nov 18, 2015

aucky said:
I'm about to move house.

I wonder, if I cancel, and sign up at the new address as a new customer, will I get new customer benefits?

Yes you will, just use different account for the DD I think

masekwm · Nov 18, 2015

Just call them and say you're moving house and joining Virgin. You'll get a deal.

DannyR · Nov 18, 2015

masekwm said:
Just call them and say you're moving house and joining Virgin. You'll get a deal.

Not if your new area doesn't have Virgin

PP200t · Nov 19, 2015

It depends how much it is really. I am excited but as with anything new it will probably be expensive to start with, and knowing sky regardless of new or existing customer you'll get stung.

Goodj · Nov 19, 2015

So it's a 4K Sky box with a chromecast built into it?

I'll pass

SC03OTT · Nov 19, 2015

"SkyQ turns your TV into a photo gallery..."
Huge demand for that, is there?
Will this new box take me to the TV Guide when I press 'TV Guide' on the remote?

Ex-User (60778) · Nov 19, 2015

@C.J sky's been 1080i for ages not 720.

C.J · Nov 19, 2015

hardy1989 said:
@C.J sky's been 1080i for ages not 720.

Same difference.

eugegall · Nov 19, 2015

Looks good. Finally a decent update.

You can download all on demand shows and films to iPad to watch offline too.

Cost will be interesting.

DannyR · Nov 20, 2015

eugegall said:
Looks good. Finally a decent update.

You can download all on demand shows and films to iPad to watch offline too.

Cost will be interesting.

I think you can do that already with Sky Go + or whatever it is.

eugegall · Nov 20, 2015

Realllllllly? @DannyR

Dan@SJM · Nov 20, 2015

Yup. I use the download feature a lot for the youth when we're going on long journeys. 1gb of peppa pig seems to do the trick.

Marc. · Nov 20, 2015

Yeah I downloaded a pile of movies through Sky Go to watch on my iPad on the plane to Mexico. Works well.

DannyR · Nov 20, 2015

eugegall said:
Realllllllly? @DannyR

I think Sky Q allows you to copy recordings to your iPad though if I heard right?

H182 · Nov 20, 2015

Looks good, but no doubt it will be an extra £10 PM for 4k, £10 for the smaller Q box, and £5 for some other random thing they can think of an excuse for. I'm at the end of my contract around then, so I'll see if they can offer me something.

The Sky go extra thing does allow you to download offline content, but is £5 extra PM.

Matt Cup · Feb 9, 2016

Prices have now been released.

Anybody getting it? I'm still in a 50% off contract so may wait until this finishes before I upgrade.

welshname · Feb 9, 2016

The best way to benefit is to have Sky broadband too. But they only seem to offer 40Mb in my area when BT are doing 80Mb.

Matt Cup · Feb 9, 2016

Yeah, don't want/need their bb, getting 200mb fitted this weekend so I'd just be after the TV packages.

CrippsCorner · Feb 9, 2016

Is there actually any real difference between 40Mb & 80Mb? My mate has a 200Mb line and he still gets buffering every now and then.

welshname · Feb 9, 2016

kayzee said:
Is there actually any real difference between 40Mb & 80Mb? My mate has a 200Mb line and he still gets buffering every now and then.

For one user only streaming, no. For a house with 5 mobiles, 4 laptops, a PC, PS4, XBox and three kodi devices streaming... Yes.

CrippsCorner · Feb 9, 2016

Fair play. We've got 2 mobiles, 1 laptop, a Surface, an iPad, PS3, PS4 and smart TV all connected on 37Mb/s and it's fine... but tbh, the only thing that ever seems to get hit by slowdown is the iPad

ersevere:

welshname · Feb 9, 2016

kayzee said:
Fair play. We've got 2 mobiles, 1 laptop, a Surface, an iPad, PS3, PS4 and smart TV all connected on 37Mb/s and it's fine... but tbh, the only thing that ever seems to get hit by slowdown is the iPad ersevere:

Yeah depends more on how many people live there. There's 5 of us and we are all heavy users of it so it can really bog

H182 · Feb 10, 2016

As I thought, too expensive. If I click upgrade on my account its an extra £25 a month. Not worth it for a fancy box with some features I'll probably never use after the first week. The additional box would be beneficial, but I manage without one at the minute. Oh and there's an initial £99 'smart features fee' and £50 installation. It's free for new customers though.. They haven't released 4k yet either, probably an additional charge for that once its active.

I'm due for renewal in a few months so I'll see if I can haggle then, probably won't bother though.

Waitey · Feb 10, 2016

£117 a month with sports and unlimited fibre.

f**k THAT.

Daz. · Feb 10, 2016

Waitey said:
£117 a month with sports and unlimited fibre.

f**k THAT.

Yeah it's a good £45 more that what we pay now for well nothing more...

DannyR · Feb 10, 2016

So all this is is a different box, different GUI and easier to get multi room but then that's more a month too?!

welshname · Feb 10, 2016

DannyR said:
So all this is is a different box, different GUI and easier to get multi room but then that's more a month too?!

Essentially yeah but anything you record can be watched on any box and started from where you left off. Plus the extra boxes don't appear to need running from the dish.

Also with their hub (router) it turns the sky boxes into WiFi extenders.

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