*** Sky Q Thread ***

[Cosimo]

What's the difference between sky q silver and normal q?

Silver: UHD, 2TB, Record 4 shows watch a 5th live, Stream on 2 TVs & tablets

Normal: HD, 1TB, Record 3 shows watch a 4th live, Stream on 1 TV & tablet

 

[Cosimo]

Football now on in UHD, Sports 1 and red button.

Looking good!

 

[BMox81]

HD looks rubbish compared to this!

 

[the wopster]

Big cats is excellent. Hammonds trip to photograph the Amazon is on par with it.

Some of the previous movies that were available (and coming back) were trememendous.

Can't find the Richard Hammond one

 

[MarkeR]

It isn't released to the public yet..

 

[V F]

HD looks rubbish compared to this!

HD used to look great back in 2008.

 

[peter212693]

Daft question but I presume its worth viewing the UHD content even though ive only got a 1080p TV? I presume the PQ, compression and bitrate will be better than the HD content?

 

[MissChief]

You won't be watching it in UHD as it requires changing the output on the box and your TV will just show a blank screen.

 

[kevpuk]

Watched the UHD version of the Liverpool v Barcelona footie on Saturday and was very impressed. For me, detail and clarity were well resolved and colours looked vibrant. As a taster, happy!

 

[peter212693]

You won't be watching it in UHD as it requires changing the output on the box and your TV will just show a blank screen.

Agh I thought that might be the case. So I will be unable to select this content unless my output is set to the 2160p?

 

[Cosimo]

Slight OT but still an interesting read, the Sky technical guidelines for UHD content:

https://corporate.sky.com/documents...unch-technical-guidelines-for-uhd-content.pdf

Shame that it does not tell us what the broadcast/HDMI output formats are.

 

[Cosimo]

Anyone suffering from juddering with 4k on a Sony may want to try this:

Make sure Sky Q is set to UHD, then factory reset TV and when set up make sure hdml is changed to enhanced mode

 

[Spit]

How do you find the big cats program in 4k?

 

[MissChief]

It's under box sets then Ultra HD.

 

[Spit]

Thanks, PQ is amazing.

 

[Heisenberg]

Had sky Q for a few days now thanks to the deal from MissChief and it's excellent. The only two niggles I have is I've noticed some very low quality in adverts, mainly in Disney Junior when the youngest is watching. Only in adverts so not a big deal. The other one is the insanely bright Q light on the front during playback. Hopefully they can introduce a dimmer for it in the near future as in a dimly lit room it is very off putting.

 

[MarkeR]

There was a bug in one of the initial firmware releases, swipe right then up and it turned the Q light off... Now it's fixed I find black electrical tape dies a great job

 

[theone8181]

Had sky Q for a few days now thanks to the deal from MissChief and it's excellent. The only two niggles I have is I've noticed some very low quality in adverts, mainly in Disney Junior when the youngest is watching. Only in adverts so not a big deal. The other one is the insanely bright Q light on the front during playback. Hopefully they can introduce a dimmer for it in the near future as in a dimly lit room it is very off putting.

I dont think all the upscaling in the world can improve some of those adverts, tends to be the louder ones as well just to be extra annoying. How do the +1 channels look as theyre normally worse on regular sky.

 

[BaZ87]

Skimming through the thread I've noticed it being mentioned that the q box and mini box have their own homeplug system installed but Sky haven't activated it yet. Is this still the case and if so is there any reason why I wouldn't be able to use my current homeplugs and connect the boxes with ethernet cables if I have any wifi issues?

 

[MissChief]

Yes it's still not active. Yes you can use home plugs but the installer likely will set you up on wifi as it's what they've been told to do.