Caporegime
Thanks, that’s what I thought. No good for me then.
*** Sky Q Thread ***
- Thread starter Cosimo
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There is no limit as such on how many mini boxes you have attached to the main box, but I believe you can only watch on any two at any one time, not three mini boxes.
With a Sky Q 2 TB box and two mini boxes I believe it is possible, that you can watch one thing on main box and main TV, something else on each of the two mini boxes, and also separate things on up two tablets or phones simultaneously.
Your tablets or phones could then be streamed to a TV through a chromecast or similar should you wish to watch on a bigger screen.
So it is possible for up for 5 people, to watch 5 separate channels, in 5 different rooms, simultaneously.
You could also be recording shows on another 5 or 6 channels, all at the same time I believe.
Yes I have heard of that offer.
They just send out a new mini box through the post and you set it up in whatever room you wish yourself.
Pretty easy to install, just plug into the mains, HDMI to your tv, and either hardwired Ethernet, (if you have that), or link to the wireless mesh from the main Sky Q box, all on screen instructions should not take more then five minutes or so.
Soldato
I'm not sure you can do this, I believe sky have a block on their streaming apps that stops casting to TV's or at least they did have a couple of years back.
do you sometimes find your box with flashing Q led and red power light on (red light) ? and can't switch it on ?
every morning around 5.30am I am unable to switch it on as its ' doing' something...
have to wait until it stops and few minutes later it can be switched on...
Ideas?
thanks
every morning around 5.30am I am unable to switch it on as its ' doing' something...
have to wait until it stops and few minutes later it can be switched on...
Ideas?
thanks
Caporegime
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I'm never awake that early 
Soldato
Installing updates and rebooting?
The engineer will NOT install your extra mini box and don't ask him to. You got the mini box at a reduced price as a self install box. If you wanted the engineer to install it you should have paid the engineer install fee!Ok just got a second mini viewer for £69. Will be sent in a couple of days.
Engineer will be over next weekend to install everything.
Looking forward to it
Also there is a limit to how many mini boxes you can connect to a 1tb box (2, watch on one at a time) and a 2Tb box (4, watch on two at a time).
You are correct, the app won't allow screen sharing or casting onto a TV.
Watched the England game last night via iPlayer UHD & I agree, picture quality much better than anything Sky have offered so far.
It has been far superior, it just goes to show how much sky cut corners on the bitrates, even BT sports UHD football broadcast is superior to skys stream
Soldato
You do know that HLG is coming to Sky?
Aye in about a year, don’t expect it for the start of the premier league season because if it were coming for the start of the season they would be shouting from the rooftops about it now
Soldato
I'm hoping it will be a lot sooner than that, tbh the HDR and Dolby vision content on both Netflix and Amazon make sky 4k sdr look dull in comparison.
TBH a lot of the stuff broadcast would look a hell of a lot better if it wasn’t so heavily compressed, that’s where skys problem is the bitrates are crap
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This is why sky have such a poor reputation...
I have sky q, no need for multiroom.
I went to download some of my recordings via the Q app to watch on tablet on holiday.
Message pops up...sorry you have to have a multi room subscription.
Christ on a bike. What has multiroom got to do with watching your recordings offline?...apart from yet another underhand way of screwing more money out of customers.
I have sky q, no need for multiroom.
I went to download some of my recordings via the Q app to watch on tablet on holiday.
Message pops up...sorry you have to have a multi room subscription.
Christ on a bike. What has multiroom got to do with watching your recordings offline?...apart from yet another underhand way of screwing more money out of customers.