*** Sky Q Thread ***

woppy101 said:
Your right the scaling quality of the skyQ box is excellent
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Oddly there are several people on the Sky forums moaning that the upscaling from the Q box is "soft" and not as "sharp" as 1080p upscaled by their TVs.

I can only assume these people have their TVs adding loads of sharpening to upscaled 1080 sources which is making a native 4K source look "soft" by comparison. That's all I can think would explain it. Wouldn't surprise me if the (frankly awful) default settings on most TVs were doing this and still in use by many people.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Oddly there are several people on the Sky forums moaning that the upscaling from the Q box is "soft" and not as "sharp" as 1080p upscaled by their TVs.

I can only assume these people have their TVs adding loads of sharpening to upscaled 1080 sources which is making a native 4K source look "soft" by comparison. That's all I can think would explain it. Wouldn't surprise me if the (frankly awful) default settings on most TVs were doing this and still in use by many people.
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I have a OLED65E6 and my sharpness is set to 0, your right about the amount of people that have all of that crap switched on.
I read a few months ago that the actual value of the SkyQ silver box is close to £600 so it stands to reason that it has a good scaling chip in it.
 
any one have a link that explains the setup of sky Q I have one HD+ box and one 2TBw box and confused about how it works. Also with the sky Q hub if I have a username/password for my current broadband provider can I use another supplier?
 
woppy101 said:
I have a OLED65E6 and my sharpness is set to 0, your right about the amount of people that have all of that crap switched on.
I read a few months ago that the actual value of the SkyQ silver box is close to £600 so it stands to reason that it has a good scaling chip in it.
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Did they mention which scaling chip it had?
 
treacle said:
any one have a link that explains the setup of sky Q I have one HD+ box and one 2TBw box and confused about how it works. Also with the sky Q hub if I have a username/password for my current broadband provider can I use another supplier?
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The main SkyQ box has the sat feeds and HDD in it. The Mini box(es) are slaves with no storage or satellite feeds. They take everything from the main box.

You'll only get a SkyQ Hub if you have Sky Broadband.
 
MissChief said:
The main SkyQ box has the sat feeds and HDD in it. The Mini box(es) are slaves with no storage or satellite feeds. They take everything from the main box.

You'll only get a SkyQ Hub if you have Sky Broadband.
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thanks.

If I don't have a Sky Q hub can the main box feed the multiscreen and does the mini box function in the same way as the current multiscreen?
 
MissChief said:
The main SkyQ box has the sat feeds and HDD in it. The Mini box(es) are slaves with no storage or satellite feeds. They take everything from the main box.

You'll only get a SkyQ Hub if you have Sky Broadband.
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My installer installed a hub for me.. Little white box?? for boosting signal...It's a large house though.

Virgin BB
 
Vertigo1 said:
Oddly there are several people on the Sky forums moaning that the upscaling from the Q box is "soft" and not as "sharp" as 1080p upscaled by their TVs.

I can only assume these people have their TVs adding loads of sharpening to upscaled 1080 sources which is making a native 4K source look "soft" by comparison. That's all I can think would explain it. Wouldn't surprise me if the (frankly awful) default settings on most TVs were doing this and still in use by many people.
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Try changing the saturation setting if you have one.
 
mattyg said:
My installer installed a hub for me.. Little white box?? for boosting signal...It's a large house though.

Virgin BB
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That'll be a booster, not a hub.

treacle said:
Try changing the saturation setting if you have one.
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No thanks, my set up is working fine, it's those with hideous TV settings who are labouring under the misapprehension that their TV can upscale HD better than the Q box can :D
 
Depends on your preference, but if the image is "too soft" then increasing the saturation worked for me. This is going from an AMD card for video to NVIDIA.
 
Shuddering picture on BBC One with UHD. Never had that on upscaling by the TV or from UHD bluray player feeding tv with 4k HDR films. My wife said it also happened on other channels this afternoon.
 
Cosimo said:
Shuddering picture on BBC One with UHD. Never had that on upscaling by the TV or from UHD bluray player feeding tv with 4k HDR films. My wife said it also happened on other channels this afternoon.
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Never had any shuddering on any of the HD channels at any time. I have had the update for some time now.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Oddly there are several people on the Sky forums moaning that the upscaling from the Q box is "soft" and not as "sharp" as 1080p upscaled by their TVs.

I can only assume these people have their TVs adding loads of sharpening to upscaled 1080 sources which is making a native 4K source look "soft" by comparison. That's all I can think would explain it. Wouldn't surprise me if the (frankly awful) default settings on most TVs were doing this and still in use by many people.
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I have my sharpness set at 0 and I can notice the difference that is being talked about on there.
 
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