Higher picture quality my butt, I was eager to have a look at this new sky picture quality and the compression is even worse, I have a recorded copy of American ultra from movies premier and it takes up 6gb of disk space I have just downloaded the same thing this morning and the disk space taken up is less than half at 2.9gb, more smoke and mirrors from sky again I see.
They said nothing whatsoever about Increasing the bit rate. They've moved to a larger colour range and have removed the sound codec that made sure adverts were no louder than the rest of the program.
If that was for 4K channels I could understand but HD should only be in Rec.709.
Heh! What good is it if the bitrate is still poor. The gradients still wont be as nice as Blu-Ray.
Still shocking it was 1440x1080 with awful bitrates and sound. Its like what you'd expect for PS3 games with the resolution. Sometimes, I don't know... with all the things Sky has been up to I wouldn't have been surprised it wasn't in Rec.709 to save bandwidth.
I think they are purposely keeping the bitrate low so UHD looks that little bit better, remember they did the same with SD to make HD look even betterI would be amazed if before this "upgrade" it was rec.709.
Over the course of the European championships I have found myself watching freeview ITV HD and BBC HD because the picture and sound quality has been far superior to that of sky who's bitrate was in the low teens for the same showing, which I find shocking and totally unacceptable.
If a channel isn't owned or run by Sky then the channels in question choose and then pay for their bitrate. ITV has always been absolutely shocking on their SD channels so the HD is a vast improvement. I've found BBC HD channels to be pretty good TBH.
So I just ordered Sky Q with a Mini box , £60 for the equipment and the same subscription as my current Sky HD package .��
Can I buy extra mini boxes ?
The standard (non-Silver) Q service doesn't support minis at all.
If you want to add a mini later then you can either keep your existing main box and up your subscription to the £56 Silver price or you can pay a one-off fee (don't know how much) to buy the Silver box and keep paying £44. In either case you'll have to pay the £99 for the mini on top I believe.
Yes it does, it supports 1 mini and 1 tablet along with recording 3 and watching a fourth.