How good or Bad does Sky HD look on a 65" OLED

chaparral · 23 Sep 2018 at 21:18

Does anyone here own a 4k 65" OLED and have Sky HD ?
As I wondering how good or bad Sky HD looks on a 4k 65" OLED from about 9 feet away..
Thinking I may better going for a 55" instead of the 65"

Am using the older sky hd 1tb box and not the new sky Q box

TALON1973 · 23 Sep 2018 at 22:46

The freeview hd channels via aerial look good on my LG 55BV7. Can’t comment on the sky part.

jpaul · 23 Sep 2018 at 22:49

It would be intereseting to know if there is any difference between sony/lg/pan oled hd->4k upscaling hardware ie. which 65"

sky has the same bitrates and codecs as freeview/freesat(bbc etc) check out the digitalbitrate site, so nothing differentiating about their HD capabilities;
they have not dummed HD down to try and up-sell their 15Mb/s 4k/sdr content.

chaparral · 23 Sep 2018 at 23:15

jpaul said:
ie. which 65".

I not bought one yet but I got my eye on the new sony 55" or 65" AF9
(But that only if there prices go down to less then there release prices of 3k & 4k

)

DataVampire · 24 Sep 2018 at 01:56

Doesn't most tvs now upscale now?
and tbh i personally think its a waste to have the old sky hd over the sky q silver especially when you can get some good deals to switch over.
just my 2£

Ayahuasca · 24 Sep 2018 at 11:29

1080 looks great on my LG 55B7 and even 720 isn't unwatchable.

VincentHanna · 24 Sep 2018 at 13:40

I have a 65B6 and Sky Q.

Also have the package that gives you 40 HD channels.

I don't really watch standard definition on it to be honest, but the HD channels look good to me.

jpaul · 24 Sep 2018 at 14:12

DataVampire said:
and tbh i personally think its a waste to have the old sky hd over the sky q silver especially when you can get some good deals to switch over.
just my 2£

but they haven't got that much 4k material other than the films 'they' show & f1/foot
parents switched over, and even though you maybe you can escape the dam £200 install now, they are paying >£50 versus <£30 before.
they can now rationalize this, since they have more space to store stuff, but they could have used catch up before.

chaparral · 24 Sep 2018 at 16:42

DataVampire said:
Doesn't most tvs now upscale now?
and tbh i personally think its a waste to have the old sky hd over the sky q silver especially when you can get some good deals to switch over.
just my 2£

It would cost me over £10 per month more when I priced up to change to sky Q (and if I remember right there was also a install charge to pay)

DataVampire · 24 Sep 2018 at 22:20

sky has netflix from november

Warbie · 25 Sep 2018 at 09:10

chaparral said:
Does anyone here own a 4k 65" OLED and have Sky HD ?
As I wondering how good or bad Sky HD looks on a 4k 65" OLED from about 9 feet away..
Thinking I may better going for a 55" instead of the 65"

Am using the older sky hd 1tb box and not the new sky Q box

I've got a 65" oled and sky. Similar viewing distance too. No issues at all with HD and I wouldn't want to go smaller. SD obviously looks crappy.

chaparral · 25 Sep 2018 at 16:49

DataVampire said:
sky has netflix from november

And there going to charge £10 per month for it.. :mad:

Think I pay £7.99 for netflix

jpaul · 25 Sep 2018 at 17:33

DataVampire said:
sky has netflix from november

so will it be hdr ?... apparently no but

On Amazon and Netflix, most UHD content is their own content. Most movies are not in UHD let alone HDR. Sky is showing more movies in UHD then both Amazon and Netflix. Once HDR is available on Sky, it will be even better with more movies with UHD and HDR.

think i had heard that before .

ubern00b · 25 Sep 2018 at 19:53

chaparral said:
And there going to charge £10 per month for it..
Think I pay £7.99 for netflix

That includes their "boxsets" package and I have read if you have the UHD sub then you will also get the UHD Netflix sub which is on its own £9.99 or there about.

kitfit1 · 25 Sep 2018 at 20:27

Netflix does stream content in HDR, i've watched it when i subscribed. At the time there wasn't much and i doubt there is much more now.
What Netflix did have though was quite a lot of UHD content. If (via Sky Q) that becomes available for £10 including Sky boxsets, then frankly that is a bargain. UHD from Netflix costs £9.99 a month anyway.....................if you already have Sky Boxsets, it's a no brainer.