Skyq

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CSK423 said:

I currently have full package (except movies) 2nd sky box, broadband unlimited, line rental and anytime calls.

I'm around £104 a month.

To upgrade to Sky Q I'm being offered silver box and mini box (plus router) for £106 a month and a one off fee of £149.

I'm struggling to justify the move across.

I have a galaxy tab that I sometimes use for sky go and my wee one uses the sky kids app, apart from that I don't think I would see any benefit for the extra cost.

When the 4k goes live I'll maybe reconsider but then I assume that'll come with an extra fee ?

Unless I'm missing some added benefit ???

Ask them to quote again if you added movies. As far as I'm aware they will discount your Q install and you can cancel movies at any time. (30 days notice required)

I'm very pleased with Q. I have two mini boxes plus a Silver main box giving us good flexibility around the house and less caballing than the multiroom set up we had before.

[rscott]

The discount is the same whether you have sports or movies (or both).
If you've been with Sky 10 years or more, ask about the loyalty discount (£99 off). Not sure if it's expired yet.

[MissChief]

If you have the SkyQ Silver bundle, and the Silver box is the only one capable of 4k output, then the 4k channels (I've heard there will be three, Sport, Movies and Entertainment) will be included at no extra charge.

[a4cabrio]

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richatnort said:

Just to give a heads up i still have two codes for cheap Sky Q so PM if interested.

I'll be using a code in a few days, just waiting patiently for a while, thanks again

[Tycho]

MissChief said:

If you have the SkyQ Silver bundle, and the Silver box is the only one capable of 4k output, then the 4k channels (I've heard there will be three, Sport, Movies and Entertainment) will be included at no extra charge.

I've only heard of one of those channels being 4k. I guess there should be quite a bit of on demand 4k content as well.

[MissChief]

Tycho said:

MissChief said:

If you have the SkyQ Silver bundle, and the Silver box is the only one capable of 4k output, then the 4k channels (I've heard there will be three, Sport, Movies and Entertainment) will be included at no extra charge.

I've only heard of one of those channels being 4k. I guess there should be quite a bit of on demand 4k content as well.

The F1 will be in UHD in 2017 so unless they're not going to show Sunday football in UHD then there will need to be yet another channel. Not sure how it's going to work as yet but it will be delivered by satellite, not Fibre as BT's UHD content is.

[Tycho]

MissChief said:

Not sure how it's going to work as yet but it will be delivered by satellite, not Fibre as BT's UHD content is.

This I do know as I've seen it...

[Digitalize]

From memory the Q Silver box is using 9/12 of it's tuners, so with UHD I could see them using the 3 extra tuners along with the existing one to create a UHD image from 4 feeds. I might be wrong though and each tuner can receive more than 1080 worth of data. Or they'll compress it massively.

[rscott]

Digitalize said:

From memory the Q Silver box is using 9/12 of it's tuners, so with UHD I could see them using the 3 extra tuners along with the existing one to create a UHD image from 4 feeds. I might be wrong though and each tuner can receive more than 1080 worth of data. Or they'll compress it massively.

It's using 11 of the 12.
4 recording
5 live TV
1 mini guide picture
1 EPG/data .

The broadcast standard for 4K uses a single stream, so just needs one tuner.

[Digitalize]

Ah yeah I forgot about the EPG and channel view.

[CSK423]

If it has 12 tuners how many cables feed it from the dish and what size of lnb does it have ?

[rscott]

CSK423 said:

If it has 12 tuners how many cables feed it from the dish and what size of lnb does it have ?

2 cables required - that's all. They fit a new LNB with 2 outputs, but if you've also got Freesat devices, they will fit a hybrid with 6 outputs which can feed Q or freesat.

[458man]

Guys had Sky Q installed today and the engineer insisted he needed to take away my two Sky HD boxes - did your engineers take your old boxes away?

My parents box is on the way out so I had planned to give them my Sky HD box to use.

[Digitalize]

They can offer but you own the boxes so no reason for them to take them, other than to recycle for you.

[MissChief]

Absolutely not, the boxes are yours to do with as you please. He can offer, but you don't have to give them to him.

[megaphone]

Can anyone confirm if the new Silver box has an I/O port for an RF adaptor? Nothing on the specs I've seen.

[Digitalize]

It does not, RF is a very outdated connection, plus they want you to buy minis.

[458man]

MissChief said:

Absolutely not, the boxes are yours to do with as you please. He can offer, but you don't have to give them to him.

Argh - thanks - too late I guess - he has taken them now - including the remotes. Probably end up on ebay lol

[Digger]

Personally I'd be ringing Sky in the a.m. demanding them back.

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megaphone said:

Can anyone confirm if the new Silver box has an I/O port for an RF adaptor? Nothing on the specs I've seen.

I was concerned about this - we had the HD box feeding two TVs downstairs via an HDMI splitter and the magic eye RF thing for remote control.

Upstairs was just the magic eye, so a terrible picture.

Had the mini box installed upstairs so no problems there but the potential issue was downstairs, the picture would work but how would we control the box from the family room? Turns out the bluetooth remote has excellent range so no worries, bluetooth in the family room and the standard IR remote in the front room.

Not sure if that helps you or not!