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Welshbeef

49,633 posts

197 months

Wednesday 10th February 2016
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Chris Stott said:
Do you get all the same channels on Virgin as Sky?

Like for like, when the start up discounts drop out you're at £108/month vs £130/month... so £264 a year better off.

Personally, I'd happily pay that not to have a Virgin box. I worked away from home for 2.5 years, and the apartment my company rented for me had a virgin box... it was irritatingly slow to change channels, crashed all the time, had rubbish interfaces, an illogical controller... I absolutely hated it.

200mb broadband is good though, and will make accessing 4k/HDR stuff a lot easier in the future.
It's a one year only contract so if prices wander upwards for month 13 then jump ship.

It doesn't have Sky Atlantic which is something we watch a fair amount but for £731 a year or a £1.2k gross it's some saving.

Chris Stott

13,189 posts

196 months

Wednesday 10th February 2016
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Only you can decide if there's value in Sky Q for you or not.

However, Eurosport is no substitute for Sky Sports!

rscott

14,690 posts

190 months

Wednesday 10th February 2016
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Chris Stott said:
Capitalnuh said:
I may have read this wrong but does anyone know if SKY Q will work without having to have sky broadband opposed to Plusnet broadband that I currently have ?
Pretty sure you can currently only order Q if you have Sky Broadband.
At the moment it's only for Sky bb customers, but they're opening it up to others 'soon' . Possibly as little as a couple of weeks time.

Welshbeef

49,633 posts

197 months

Wednesday 10th February 2016
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Chris Stott said:
Only you can decide if there's value in Sky Q for you or not.

However, Eurosport is no substitute for Sky Sports!
But you are comparing a £145 first year cost for Skyq v £62.24 first year cost of Virgin that's a big difference to justify (especially if you don't watch football rarely see any F1 races all year catch the 6N and as many summer tours and the autumn internationals - but they are terrestial free to view in the main (on hols always for the Championship so zero benefit)



_dobbo_

14,327 posts

247 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Welshbeef said:
But you are comparing a £145 first year cost for Skyq v £62.24 first year cost of Virgin that's a big difference to justify (especially if you don't watch football rarely see any F1 races all year catch the 6N and as many summer tours and the autumn internationals - but they are terrestial free to view in the main (on hols always for the Championship so zero benefit)
On the other hand it's not a big difference to justify if you watch all the F1, some football, Sky Atlantic, etc. So, different strokes for different folks?


Welshbeef

49,633 posts

197 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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_dobbo_ said:
Welshbeef said:
But you are comparing a £145 first year cost for Skyq v £62.24 first year cost of Virgin that's a big difference to justify (especially if you don't watch football rarely see any F1 races all year catch the 6N and as many summer tours and the autumn internationals - but they are terrestial free to view in the main (on hols always for the Championship so zero benefit)
On the other hand it's not a big difference to justify if you watch all the F1, some football, Sky Atlantic, etc. So, different strokes for different folks?
But watching what 2+ football games every week 19 F1 races in addition to the other stuff leaves very little time for doing anything apart from sat on ones Arse in front of tele?

_dobbo_

14,327 posts

247 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Welshbeef said:
But watching what 2+ football games every week 19 F1 races in addition to the other stuff leaves very little time for doing anything apart from sat on ones Arse in front of tele?
You say that like it's a bad thing? hehe

At the moment by the time I've got the kids to bed and had dinner, all I want to do is watch a bit of tele and then go to bed. Being up past 22:00 is a rare occurence, but then starting at 05:00 most days will do that to you.

Suspect when they get a bit older the Sky package will get significantly reduced...

Welshbeef

49,633 posts

197 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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_dobbo_ said:
You say that like it's a bad thing? hehe

At the moment by the time I've got the kids to bed and had dinner, all I want to do is watch a bit of tele and then go to bed. Being up past 22:00 is a rare occurence, but then starting at 05:00 most days will do that to you.

Suspect when they get a bit older the Sky package will get significantly reduced...
That's the key weekends are now kids birthday parties kids swimming lessons taking the kids out/to give the wife some time out away from kids = simply little if anytime for tele.

Same here on timings - and frankly weekends are indifferent.

_dobbo_

14,327 posts

247 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Welshbeef said:
Same here on timings - and frankly weekends are indifferent.
Hey man, sending you a Dad hug over the internet, I know your pain!

Chris Stott

13,189 posts

196 months

Friday 12th February 2016
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Remind me again why I don't have kids laugh

audi321

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5,157 posts

212 months

Friday 12th February 2016
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I've just spent the past 30 minutes on the phone with Sky re the SkyQ.

I am not a sky customer at the moment.

I went through the full benefits of SkyQ and they seem to be:

1. Ability to record/watch more channels at once - So what
2. Ability to pause a channel/recording, then pick it up at another TV/tablet where I left off - Again, So what
3. Wifi streaming with another mini box at the other end - mmmmm, might be useful to save running cables everywhere
4. Better remote control, with voice activation in the future - So what
5. Only one cable coming from Sky Dish - So what
6. You don't own the box, just rent it, so all future callouts for faults are free - So what
7. It extends the wifi into blackspots - I don't have any!

He then proceeds to tell me the monthly price! OUCH!! No discounts available at all as it's so new. £150 installation fee too!

I said no thanks, and then got offered EVERY channel possible (including movies and Sports all in HD) for £40/month for 12 months, free installation on normal Sky+. Naturally I accepted smile

Seems this SkyQ is a bit meh (for me anyway).

Edited by audi321 on Friday 12th February 11:10

F18RSC

635 posts

216 months

Friday 12th February 2016
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audi321 said:
I've just spent the past 30 minutes on the phone with Sky re the SkyQ.

I am not a sky customer at the moment.

I went through the full benefits of SkyQ and they seem to be:

1. Ability to record/watch more channels at once - So what
2. Ability to pause a channel/recording, then pick it up at another TV/tablet where I left off - Again, So what
3. Wifi streaming with another mini box at the other end - mmmmm, might be useful to save running cables everywhere
4. Better remote control, with voice activation in the future - So what
5. Only one cable coming from Sky Dish - So what
6. You don't own the box, just rent it, so all future callouts for faults are free - So what

He then proceeds to tell me the monthly price! OUCH!! No discounts available at all as it's so new. £150 installation fee too!

I said no thanks, and then got offered EVERY channel possible (including movies and Sports all in HD) for £40/month for 12 months, free installation on normal Sky+. Naturally I accepted smile

Seems this SkyQ is a bit meh (for me anyway).
You will find that when Sky HD first came out you only rented the box too! However I have three in the shed! Invariably the best shows are always on at the primetime, so 9pm on a Friday night you may have two shows you want to watch and something else comes up on another multiplex. That is when multiple recording comes in. The remote is old that is supplied, yes it works but the amazon fire stick for £35 comes with a clever little remote! The pause tv and move to another device is probably mainly so you can finish watching something on the main tv and move upstairs to the bedroom to continue watching.

tankplanker

2,479 posts

278 months

Friday 12th February 2016
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Tycho said:
The Sky Qboxes use powerline for networking and you have the option to turn on Wifi hotspot functionality so each one will become a Wifi extender.

My network:

BB > Sky Router (Wifi off, DHCP on) > powerline to Netgear router (Wifi on, DHCP off) > Devices

Sky Q boxes will connect to the Sky router via Powerline.
As long as I can turn off the Sky networking bits I'm fine, the rubbish that is the current Sky Broadband router would prevent me from moving to the service, it simply doesn't do what I need or offer the reliability and performance that I require.

My setup:
Fiber > Custom built pfSense box > Managed switch > Cat 5e > 3 * Netgear R7000 running DD-WRT sharing a single SSID, separate channels.

Do we have any dates for the 4k content yet? I'm waiting for the pricing of that...

pincher

8,497 posts

216 months

Friday 12th February 2016
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I think I am a little confused about whether I actually want this or not!

My current setup is as follows;

HD Box in front room that feeds HD tv also in front room. It also feeds tv in first floor bedroom, via a magic eye.
SD box in front room, that feeds HD tv in kitchen via coax and magic eye –cable goes outside, along wall and back in to kitchen (didn’t have anywhere suitable to site box in kitchen, hence putting in front room)

If I get SkyQ, am I right in thinking that the new box will replace the two existing ones and I just need two mini boxes, one in the kitchen and one in the bedroom?

Tycho

11,554 posts

272 months

Friday 12th February 2016
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pincher said:
I think I am a little confused about whether I actually want this or not!

My current setup is as follows;

HD Box in front room that feeds HD tv also in front room. It also feeds tv in first floor bedroom, via a magic eye.
SD box in front room, that feeds HD tv in kitchen via coax and magic eye –cable goes outside, along wall and back in to kitchen (didn’t have anywhere suitable to site box in kitchen, hence putting in front room)

If I get SkyQ, am I right in thinking that the new box will replace the two existing ones and I just need two mini boxes, one in the kitchen and one in the bedroom?
Correct, the planner will be available to all boxes and you can watch different channels on all TVs. You can also run 2 tablets off the Q Silver box as well.

Ilovetwiglets

695 posts

167 months

Saturday 13th February 2016
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Mine comes out with a one off fee of £350!! Must be because I don't have Sky Broadband I guess. I don't think I'll be bothering.

F18RSC

635 posts

216 months

Saturday 13th February 2016
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Ilovetwiglets said:
Mine comes out with a one off fee of £350!! Must be because I don't have Sky Broadband I guess. I don't think I'll be bothering.
I would give them a call, i didn't have their broadband and it cost me £150 upfront. £115 a month.

rscott

14,690 posts

190 months

Saturday 13th February 2016
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F18RSC said:
Ilovetwiglets said:
Mine comes out with a one off fee of £350!! Must be because I don't have Sky Broadband I guess. I don't think I'll be bothering.
I would give them a call, i didn't have their broadband and it cost me £150 upfront. £115 a month.
You only get the lower price if you've got broadband, sport, movies, multiroom or HD.

Ilovetwiglets

695 posts

167 months

Saturday 13th February 2016
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I'm pretty happy with what I've got at the moment to be honest, I can't remember the last time I needed to record/watch three things at the same time, surely that's what catch-up is for?

MissChief

7,095 posts

167 months

Sunday 14th February 2016
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Ilovetwiglets said:
I'm pretty happy with what I've got at the moment to be honest, I can't remember the last time I needed to record/watch three things at the same time, surely that's what catch-up is for?
Not everything is on catch up and not everyone can download programs in a timely fashion either.