Upgrade to sky Q

[semisane]

from Sky+

Sky offering to upgrade for free

Any downsides (apart from presumably losing all my current recorded programs ?)

Current box is 10+ years old

Thanks

[driver67]

The new interface takes a bit of getting used to.

Apart from that, it's all quite good.

You'll be on a new contract for a couple of years I'm sure. The Q equipment always stays Sky property.

Dougie.

[vixen1700]

Had it for nearly two years and still moan about the functionality of it on a daily basis. It's just not user-friendly like the old Sky+ was, why they changed it so much is beyond me.

[toon10]

I didn't realise Sky + was still going. Had Sky Q for years. The menu system took a while to get used to but OK with it now. I like being able to access all of my apps easily such as Disney +, Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc. The integration with Netflix is good so you can use the standard search function and it returns Sky and Netflix content rather than having to go into the app and search from there.

Our Sky Q boxes are getting on a bit now and I find I'm constantly having to do a reset on the 2 mini boxes which is annoying.

[rossub]

The issue i have with it is you need a mini box for every TV?

Ive run HD and AV cables from the HD Box via splitters to every room in the house, so it can be watched and controlled (via magic eye) from up to 7 TVs if we had that many.

As I've got this set up, i just don’t see the point in Q.

[119]

We jumped on Q about a year after it came out and
It’s bloody brilliant. (We did ditch and go for Stream but that was utter shyte so cancelled and went back).

Would never go back to the old crappy interface now.

[toon10]

119 said:

We jumped on Q about a year after it came out and
It’s bloody brilliant. (We did ditch and go for Stream but that was utter shyte so cancelled and went back).

Would never go back to the old crappy interface now.

Sorry to hijack this thread but can I ask what you didn't like about Stream (Glass?) I only ask as I was thinking of going down that route in order to get rid of the unreliable mini boxes.

[Antony Moxey]

Not had any problems with Q for a couple of years now. We’ve got two mini boxes that used to need resetting but since we upgraded our broadband (we’re with BT and not Sky) it’s been faultless. As the poster above says, I wouldn’t go back to our previous set up.

[GetCarter]

Q is much better then +

Although as mentioned the remote and menu are a bt different/pants.

The mini boxes work no matter where you put them.

Get the 2TB version - you'll need it if you ever get a 4k TV.

[Dogwatch]

rossub said:

The issue i have with it is you need a mini box for every TV?

Ive run HD and AV cables from the HD Box via splitters to every room in the house, so it can be watched and controlled (via magic eye) from up to 7 TVs if we had that many.

As I've got this set up, i just don’t see the point in Q.

Q talks to the mini boxes via your router.

[Skii]

On this subject, why for the love of god does the Q box show recorded episodes in series link oldest first!?!

constantly having to endlessly scroll right to view the latest episode - very annoying,- or am I missing something obvious ?

[cpszx]

rossub said:

The issue i have with it is you need a mini box for every TV?

Ive run HD and AV cables from the HD Box via splitters to every room in the house, so it can be watched and controlled (via magic eye) from up to 7 TVs if we had that many.

As I've got this set up, i just don’t see the point in Q.

But all 7 tv's have to watch the same thing playing on the sky box in your setup

Stick a mini Q box on a couple of those tv's and they can watch anything else they like including the recorded stuff on the main box (except UHD content).

Keep your distribution setup for the best of both where you have a mini Q box.

[toon10]

Skii said:

On this subject, why for the love of god does the Q box show recorded episodes in series link oldest first!?!

constantly having to endlessly scroll right to view the latest episode - very annoying,- or am I missing something obvious ?

I always delete the episode I've just watched out of habit, so you always get the "next" episode first. I do this mainly to free up disk space. I've never thought of this as a problem, but I suppose if you're keeping the series saved then you would have to do a bit of scrolling.

[rossub]

cpszx said:

rossub said:

The issue i have with it is you need a mini box for every TV?

Ive run HD and AV cables from the HD Box via splitters to every room in the house, so it can be watched and controlled (via magic eye) from up to 7 TVs if we had that many.

As I've got this set up, i just don’t see the point in Q.

But all 7 tv's have to watch the same thing playing on the sky box in your setup

Stick a mini Q box on a couple of those tv's and they can watch anything else they like including the recorded stuff on the main box (except UHD content).

Keep your distribution setup for the best of both where you have a mini Q box.

Having to watch the same thing is the one drawback, though there's just the 2 of us in the house.

I thought that you cannot view on another TV, unless there's a Mini Q connected to it.... is it still possible to view and control via my setup (HD cable and Magic Eye) from the Q main box without adding a Mini Q to every TV?

[cpszx]

rossub said:

Having to watch the same thing is the one drawback, though there's just the 2 of us in the house.

I thought that you cannot view on another TV, unless there's a Mini Q connected to it.... is it still possible to view and control via my setup (HD cable and Magic Eye) from the Q main box without adding a Mini Q to every TV?

havent looked for a magic eye IR port on the box, or were you using a blaster on the front? in which case it will be the same.
my main q box has bluetooth remote, but the other ir remotes will still work as well

[rossub]

Hmm something to look into at some point.

The old HD boxes surely won't continue to work forever, which is my concern.

[Truckosaurus]

I've recently returned to Sky via their 'Stream' product, it seems you can fast forward through the adverts like you could if you were watching a recorded/series linked show.

A lot of the non-Sky content is just via the other channel's on demand platforms so they will each have slightly different user interfaces and restrictions.

[cpszx]

rossub said:

cpszx said:

rossub said:

The issue i have with it is you need a mini box for every TV?

Ive run HD and AV cables from the HD Box via splitters to every room in the house, so it can be watched and controlled (via magic eye) from up to 7 TVs if we had that many.

As I've got this set up, i just don’t see the point in Q.

But all 7 tv's have to watch the same thing playing on the sky box in your setup

Stick a mini Q box on a couple of those tv's and they can watch anything else they like including the recorded stuff on the main box (except UHD content).

Keep your distribution setup for the best of both where you have a mini Q box.

Having to watch the same thing is the one drawback, though there's just the 2 of us in the house.

I thought that you cannot view on another TV, unless there's a Mini Q connected to it.... is it still possible to view and control via my setup (HD cable and Magic Eye) from the Q main box without adding a Mini Q to every TV?

I will soon have a similar setup to every room, except that i will be using a 8x8 HDMI matrix not a splitter, so any source can go to any tv any time.
then with all sky boxes as sources, you can watch any box in any room.
The matrix has IR forwarding built in so you will only control the sky box you are watching

[119]

toon10 said:

119 said:

We jumped on Q about a year after it came out and
It’s bloody brilliant. (We did ditch and go for Stream but that was utter shyte so cancelled and went back).

Would never go back to the old crappy interface now.

Sorry to hijack this thread but can I ask what you didn't like about Stream (Glass?) I only ask as I was thinking of going down that route in order to get rid of the unreliable mini boxes.

It was a while ago but just the usability of it, especially after using Q for a million years.

Plus it was laggy, kept getting a green bar across both tv's randomly plus other annoyances.

Even after various firmware updates!

[Truckosaurus]

Also with Stream (and NowTV etc) is that things like live football games are about a minute behind 'live' so you have to hide your phone so as not get a mocking text from your mate when his team scores against yours before it has even happened.