*** Sky Q Thread ***

would love to order this but can't due to it being a shared planner. Once they allow some sort of user account system where you have a planner per account then its a no go for me, shame.
 
I would love to have upgraded to this. Instead I just cancelled Sky, paying £130 (including broadband) was becoming rather expensive
 
Jae-So said:
I would love to have upgraded to this. Instead I just cancelled Sky, paying £130 (including broadband) was becoming rather expensive
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Very expensive , i feel as a loyal sky customer i feel we are not getting a good deal what soever , to think i loose my 60% discount if i upgraded and my bill would go up from £50 to £90 and still have to pay extra for the Sky Q box at £150 , that`s not a good deal

So whats the point being a loyal Sky customer , Sky always say that like to keep hold of their loyal customers
 
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I'm going for it, I need to replace at least one box and one remote, might as well pay £149 and £1.50 a month extra (no discounts here) for it and go UHD for free when it happens. I guess I'm the lucky one :-)
Andi.
 
TheHitMan-1973 said:
Very expensive , i feel as a loyal sky customer i feel we are not getting a good deal what soever , to think i loose my 60% discount if i upgraded and my bill would go up from £50 to £90 and still have to pay extra for the Sky Q box at £150 , that`s not a good deal

So whats the point being a loyal Sky customer , Sky always say that like to keep hold of their loyal customers
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Yep I asked about potential discounts and they offered nowt so I cancelled. At least Sky over the last year has paid for my dish so I can now go FreeSat multiroom. Also switching to BT for Broadband but only until Virgin bring their services here.

andicole0 said:
I'm going for it, I need to replace at least one box and one remote, might as well pay £149 and £1.50 a month extra (no discounts here) for it and go UHD for free when it happens. I guess I'm the lucky one :-)
Andi.
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Yeh it was 1.50 extra for me too but paying £130 when I can mainly watch FreeSat channels wasn't worth it. I'll now be paying Less than £40 (broadband, call package, BT sport, line rental) and get the FreeSat channels for free.
 
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Jae-So said:
Yep I asked about potential discounts and they offered nowt so I cancelled. At least Skynover the last year has paid for my dish so I can now go FreeSat multiroom. Also switching to BT for Broadband but only until Birgin bring their services here.



Yeh it was 1.50 extra for me too but paying £130 when I can mainly watch FreeSat channels wasn't worth it. I'll now be paying Less than £40 including BT sport and get the FreeSat channels for free.
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I know Sky Q is a new premier product but that does not mean for such high prices for us being loyal Sky customer for years and should be discounts, Sky is a multi million pound company and their turn over must be incredible
 
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I have just bought another TV for upstairs so that I can watch Sky Sports up here whilst the missus watches something else downstairs...

Can I do this with Sky Q or do I still need multiroom?
 
Jae-So said:
Yep I asked about potential discounts and they offered nowt so I cancelled. At least Sky over the last year has paid for my dish so I can now go FreeSat multiroom. Also switching to BT for Broadband but only until Virgin bring their services here.



Yeh it was 1.50 extra for me too but paying £130 when I can mainly watch FreeSat channels wasn't worth it. I'll now be paying Less than £40 (broadband, call package, BT sport, line rental) and get the FreeSat channels for free.
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I've binned Sky as well. Switching over to BT on the 8th. Even with switching, including the upgrade to fibre, including the £120 fee to sort my arial out(:o), including a now tv sub thrown in to watch the stuff ill miss on sky one and sky atlantic, i'll still be over 150 quid better off over the next 12 months than i would be if i stuck with my current sky+ package, never mind the extra 560 quid sky wanted over the next 12 months to switch to Q. Absolutely flipping bananas.
 
smr said:
I have just bought another TV for upstairs so that I can watch Sky Sports up here whilst the missus watches something else downstairs...

Can I do this with Sky Q or do I still need multiroom?
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Yes... SkyQ can have the extra hubs in numerous other rooms each of which can watch what ever channel they want, or any program recorded (all stored on the central box).

I'm not sure what quality these additional hubs have video quality wise though, as they of course use homeplug technology to liase with the main box...
 
NeilFawcett said:
Yes... SkyQ can have the extra hubs in numerous other rooms each of which can watch what ever channel they want, or any program recorded (all stored on the central box).

I'm not sure what quality these additional hubs have video quality wise though, as they of course use homeplug technology to liase with the main box...
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Thanks - that's the only thing I'm concerned about. If there is any degredation in quality on the TV upstairs... I'm chatting with a sky "expert" right now who naturally says there will be no degredation at all :rolleyes:

my variety + sports + hd package at hte moment comes to £66.75. So If I add multiroom to that it would be £78.05.

If I get Sky Q it would include HD and come to £79.50 - so if there is no loss in quality on the TV upstairs it's surely a no brainer.
 
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The streams are not actually very high bandwidth per channel, so i dont see why the quality would need to degrade?

Edit: Just googled that, and even sky sports HD is supposedly only 13 megabit....
 
Jez said:
The streams are not actually very high bandwidth per channel, so i dont see why the quality would need to degrade?

Edit: Just googled that, and even sky sports HD is supposedly only 13 megabit....
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A homeplug should easily be able to cope with that then... Assuming a reasonable performance...

I do wonder what will happen if you already use homeplugs in the household for a network how SkyQ will behave/perform!?
 
smr said:
Thanks - that's the only thing I'm concerned about. If there is any degredation in quality on the TV upstairs... I'm chatting with a sky "expert" right now who naturally says there will be no degredation at all :rolleyes:

my variety + sports + hd package at hte moment comes to £66.75. So If I add multiroom to that it would be £78.05.

If I get Sky Q it would include HD and come to £79.50 - so if there is no loss in quality on the TV upstairs it's surely a no brainer.
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+50 to install and 100 for the sky Q box and first mini box..
 
At the moment the boxes all use Wifi to connect to each other. The Powerline option isn't ready yet but will be coming soon.

The boxes have the option to upscale to 1080p and I have this set on both of my boxes. And yes it's fully independent viewing on each box.

I can see no difference whatsoever between my previous 2TB Sky+HD box and the SkyQ mini box.
 
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