*** Sky Q Thread ***

Vertigo1 said:
I had a very brief play with the touch remote the other week at a Sky stand in the local shopping centre.

Felt bizarre - unless I was getting it totally wrong, it appeared you needed to swipe right to progress through the menus and left to back up which felt completely wrong as the action of swiping right moved you further to the right in the onscreen menus which is backwards, or am I missing something?

Do you get another, more normal remote with buttons?
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It is a bit naff with the swiping, horizontal across screen is fine but scrolling up/down through the program guide gives you thumb ache using one hand. Two handed operation is self defeating in my opinion. I think it's a bit of a gimmick.

We got two with the silver box, normal/touch and a normal with the mini.
 
Install done. Massive upgrade on the old system. Nice picture improvement with 1080p.

Wish you could set it up so that home went to TV guide.
 
I agree, my LG 4k set shows a significant picture improvement when fed 1080p by the Q box compared to the 1080i picture coming through the satellite. I see the same improvement on my 42" 1080p Panasonic in my bedroom too.
 
We've got a Sky HD box which we've had for a while now and I've toying with the idea of Q as it looks neat.

Looking at the info it looks as if the Q Silver box replaces our traditional HD box and gives us the ability to record 4 shows at once and view a 5th? Looking at the back of the Q Silver box I can see there is only a pair of dish inputs, so I presume Sky don't need to run extra cables? (If they do it would be a major headache)

If we went for a Q mini box in the bedroom if I understand it correctly this gives us access to our planner off the main box? Pause in one room and move to the other and all that?

Does it give normal Sky TV channels as well (like multiroom which we do not have atm) or it only for stuff you've recorded off the main box? It's not clear in the blurb. Presume it must connect via Wifi, Ethernet or Powerline?

We don't use Sky BB and I don't really want to switch, not interested in the wifi/access point features the boxes offer. Wi-Fi perfect everywhere as things stand.

Thx! Sorry for the bombardment of questions! :rolleyes:
 
nantucket66 said:
Looking at the info it looks as if the Q Silver box replaces our traditional HD box and gives us the ability to record 4 shows at once and view a 5th? Looking at the back of the Q Silver box I can see there is only a pair of dish inputs, so I presume Sky don't need to run extra cables? (If they do it would be a major headache)
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No, they've solved that with a new type of LNB which only needs a couple of physical lines into the box. If your dish is in good shape they can just replace the LNB, otherwise they'll put a whole new dish up.

If we went for a Q mini box in the bedroom if I understand it correctly this gives us access to our planner off the main box? Pause in one room and move to the other and all that?
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The main box does all the work, the Minis are just satellite client boxes which send instructions to the main box and receive video streams back from it, so when you record something on a Mini, it's actually just telling the main box to record it. When you view a recording, it's all just streaming from the main box so it can easily keep track of where you're at if you hop between rooms/boxes.

Does it give normal Sky TV channels as well (like multiroom which we do not have atm) or it only for stuff you've recorded off the main box? It's not clear in the blurb. Presume it must connect via Wifi, Ethernet or Powerline?
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Yep, you can view any live channels to which you subscribe. I'm not aware of any restrictions which might stop some channels being available on a Mini box but someone else may be able to clarify.

The installers will insist on using Wifi for the Mini boxes but you can switch to Ethernet later if you want. They have powerline tech built-in apparently but it's not yet enabled.

We don't use Sky BB and I don't really want to switch, not interested in the wifi/access point features the boxes offer. Wi-Fi perfect everywhere as things stand.
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You can have Q without Sky broadband and use your existing service[/QUOTE]
 
HAz said:
We have a communal satellite dish so not sure how that will work
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A Sky Q ready upgrade is an enhancement to your existing communal system where a DSCR (Digital Single Cable Router - switch containing Ethan –Ready technology) switch is fitted at the head end (Location of switches and other equipment) allowing anyone that wants Sky Q to be connected. This new switch will work with either Sky Q or Sky+ customers.
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Look here:

http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Q/Sky-q-and-communal-systems/m-p/2414393/highlight/true#M1256
 
got mine being installed in a weeks time, I have the Silver box and two of the mini boxes coming. I have Ethernet available at all 3 locations. Does any one know if they will install is using my Ethernet or use the wifi ? I feel Ethernet will give less issues but how much of my gigabit network will it swallow up ?
 
Just had Sky Q installed today - first impressions are pretty good, although the remote is a bit annoying to use!

Does anyone know if there is a shortcut to put subtitles on rather than going into the main menu and scrolling down to it? (on the old remote it was bound to the "help" button!)

Thanks...

*edit* nevermind, idiot that I am didn't notice the question mark button at the bottom of the remote!
 
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Randall8686 said:
got mine being installed in a weeks time, I have the Silver box and two of the mini boxes coming. I have Ethernet available at all 3 locations. Does any one know if they will install is using my Ethernet or use the wifi ? I feel Ethernet will give less issues but how much of my gigabit network will it swallow up ?
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The engineer will likely want to install it over wifi as that's how they've been trained.
 
My Silver box is connected via ethernet but the engineer took some persuading - my router is literally 2 feet from where the Silver box sits and the engineer still wanted to connect it via WiFi!
 
My mini box was right next to a switch and he still wouldn't use Ethernet .. Said it has to be over wifi
Although he was going to attempt to connect it direct to the router (same room) but his partner told him no connect to the silver box (downstairs)

Wierd but it all works so no complaints
 
Randall8686 said:
This is a bit lame, Given i have seen a few reviews of people saying its disconnected over wifi. Will speak to the guy and see what he says. I see no reason for choosing wifi over a cable....
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As said previously, there are plenty of reasons for not using an existing network. The installers aren't network engineers and don't want to be dealing with ip addressing, name clashes, dhcp servers etc etc etc
 
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