Upgrade to sky Q

[The Gauge]

I think Sky Q is blooming marvellous, by far the best interface out there for me, fast and responsive, I love it. Got 3 x mini boxes too in different rooms of the house.

I moan at the renewal price every 18months but always submit my cancellation and then negotiate a new contract.

[craig1912]

toon10 said:

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.

Ours are too nearly eight years old and the mini box needs resetting about once a week. They also run pretty hot.
I am thinking of getting Sky to replace them.

[SpeedBash]

driver67 said:

You'll be on a new contract for a couple of years I'm sure.Dougie.

Anyone know for sure if this is the case?

[The Gauge]

SpeedBash said:

Anyone know for sure if this is the case?

It's always been 18 months, but maybe they have increased it to 2yrs now?

[toon10]

craig1912 said:

Ours are too nearly eight years old and the mini box needs resetting about once a week. They also run pretty hot.
I am thinking of getting Sky to replace them.

Yeah, I'm sure some negotiation can be done. I might enquire about cancelling and stating the reason is the ageing hardware needing resetting regularly. I've got everything apart from the movie channels so it's probably worth their while to replace my kit and keep me as a customer than have me walk away.

[gmaz]

If you use subtitles, they are a huge font and cover a 1/4 of the screen. I've not found a way to customise them like you can with other streamers.

[cslwannabe]

Upgraded recently and mine loses internet connection almost daily. Seems to be a very common issue. No one here suffer with this?

Edited by cslwannabe on Wednesday 15th May 18:12

[mikef]

I’ve gone for the free install offer from Sky +. After a bit of negotiation, Sky Q UHD/4K with a free 1TB box and multi-room will be much cheaper than my current Sky + subscription. Installation early June

The only thing is that my second TV is in another building around 100 yards from the house. There is ethernet between the house router and the second location, both TVs are connected by wifi (unavoidable)

I’m not sure whether a Q minibox can be configured to work like this (?). Sky Q seems to include Sky on Apple TV, so that would be fine as an alternative. But is that going to work in UHD/4K ?