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MissChief · 18 Nov 2015 at 18:06

Astra have been running a 4k showreel for a while and it looks very good. Not much fast moving stuff on it mind you.

Caged · 18 Nov 2015 at 18:11

It does highlight how utterly incompetent Virgin Media have been with their TV platform though, considering they have a network capable of delivering 120Mbps+ into people's homes. They still insist on the DVR being in your house instead of on a pool of storage they control centrally, and have done the barest minimum in terms of multi-room viewing. They could have sewn up the multi-room user experience from a technical perspective as soon as they jumped on the TiVo platform, but nope.

lude1962 · 18 Nov 2015 at 18:21

How is it doing record 4 watch 1 from two LNB inputs? It can't assume your choice of 5 is only split across two bands/polarizations.
...it wont, it will download from internet in the background to the box

EDIT a pre req will be sky fibre to achieve this

Caged · 18 Nov 2015 at 18:33

Where have you got that from? The OP with the info from Sky's website even says watch 5 different channels and record 4.

filter2000 · 18 Nov 2015 at 18:40

Ysmalari said:
Looking at the images it still has only two dish connectors unless I missing something, so I wonder how they're managing to split the signal into 5 for Sky Q silver? I hope this doesn't mean further compression of image quality.

It uses a wideband lnb similar to idea to a communal system

lude1962 · 18 Nov 2015 at 18:58

Caged said:
Where have you got that from? The OP with the info from Sky's website even says watch 5 different channels and record 4.

Sky Q that blends live and on-demand TV

do they say it will all be sat based?

filter2000 · 18 Nov 2015 at 19:04

The silver box has 12 tuners in total but only 2 physical inputs. Only the ondemand will be internet based.

Ysmalari · 18 Nov 2015 at 19:05

filter2000 said:
It uses a wideband lnb similar to idea to a communal system

Ah, thanks very much.
I'll be interested to see the price, considering they're still charging extra for HD I imagine it will be a little eye-watering to begin with!

filter2000 · 18 Nov 2015 at 19:08

Sky will always own the equipment where as the exsisting equipment is owned by the customer after 12 months

Caged · 18 Nov 2015 at 19:10

lude1962 said:
Sky Q that blends live and on-demand TV

do they say it will all be sat based?

It just seemed like you were guessing. filter2000 has an answer that it's using a wideband LNB, so 'engineer' install as opposed to self-install. The barriers to adopting multi-room are massively reduced now though.

squired · 18 Nov 2015 at 19:57

Not going to worry about how good/bad it is until I've seen the cost. One thing I would want to know is how it would work in terms of the current Sky Go offering. At the moment my mum has an XBox, which allows her to watch Sky at her home, on my account.

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filter2000 · 18 Nov 2015 at 20:17

Skygo gets replaced with a skyq app so will be different. Also you only use one viewing card with the new system

V F · 18 Nov 2015 at 20:20

Caged said:
It just seemed like you were guessing. filter2000 has an answer that it's using a wideband LNB, so 'engineer' install as opposed to self-install. The barriers to adopting multi-room are massively reduced now though.

Maybe... but at what cost?

Caged · 18 Nov 2015 at 20:25

I'm going to assume that with everything integrated into a Wi-Fi network that Sky Go is enabled on devices by them "checking in" periodically on that network.

Spook187 · 18 Nov 2015 at 20:44

Packages star at £200 a month plus £50 a month for UHD, i won't be far off

wellibob · 18 Nov 2015 at 20:55

Spook187 said:
Packages star at £200 a month plus £50 a month for UHD, i won't be far off

Spot on. Sky. Love tv love your bank manager. Hateful company really.

V F · 18 Nov 2015 at 20:56

Thought prices were still to be revealed?...

TheHitMan-1973 · 18 Nov 2015 at 21:18

Can`t see see the average person upgrading to Sky Q or 4K

MissChief · 18 Nov 2015 at 22:24

TheHitMan-1973 said:
Can`t see see the average person upgrading to Sky Q or 4K

On the contrary we've been really busy with lots enquiries online and over the phone.

visibleman · 18 Nov 2015 at 23:12

Sky Q does look pretty good :cool:

But i suspect the costs will, initially, be pretty ridiculous especially for the full monty, ie - Sky Q Silver box etc.

Caged said:
They still insist on the DVR being in your house instead of on a pool of storage they control centrally....

How do you envision that working?

Maybe i'm barking up the wrong tree but in my head, i don't see how you could achieve that without introducing (more) P2P connections which would in turn increase load on the network :confused:

Similarly, i can't see how you could easily move DVR functionality away from homes as you either (essentially) move the DVR/STB to a hubsite/hubend, which sounds a little pointless to me; or, VM changes to an on-demand type service for DVR functionality but then surely they'd have to store every programme broadcasted which i imagine would be a world of hurt and no doubt stupidly costly :confused:

I don't doubt they'll move to IPTV but it's easier and simpler to have the DVR portion within the STB/home.

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