Skyq

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audi321

Original Poster:

5,157 posts

212 months

Sunday 24th January 2016
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Anyone got a release date yet?

I can't wait although I am going to see how much they're gonna try and charge me for the privilege! In particular I'm looking for the wifi streaming and the quality and reliability it brings!

VEX

5,256 posts

245 months

Sunday 24th January 2016
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You, me and the whole of the satellite TV and AV industry!

I wouldn't get to excited about WiFi streaming either, there are to many unknown in every single property to be able to plan or design for every combination.

I'll post about anything I here as soon as it is released.

V.

StuH

2,557 posts

272 months

Ekona

1,652 posts

201 months

Tuesday 26th January 2016
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No network connection other than WiFi or Powerline rules it out for me. It also neatly shows just how low bitrate their 4K stuff is going to be, if the Q will be happy to stream it over WiFi only without buffering issues.

audi321

Original Poster:

5,157 posts

212 months

Tuesday 26th January 2016
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I thought the same. 4K over wireless!! My wifi can't do 1080 decently let alone 4k

DoctorX

7,240 posts

166 months

Tuesday 26th January 2016
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My TV streams 4K Netflix wirelessly without issue so I'm hopeful this will too. Anything which gets rid of more cables is good news. Apart from the 4K, I'm not seeing much else particularly interesting about this box though.

rscott

14,690 posts

190 months

Wednesday 27th January 2016
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Ekona said:
No network connection other than WiFi or Powerline rules it out for me. It also neatly shows just how low bitrate their 4K stuff is going to be, if the Q will be happy to stream it over WiFi only without buffering issues.
There's an ethernet port on all 3 boxes. Only the Sky Q Silver will support 4k, so there's no requirement to stream 4k over wifi.

One of the reviews quotes the project director as saying that 4k mini devices will arrive later (once 4k streaming starts).

Type R Tom

3,859 posts

148 months

Wednesday 27th January 2016
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I purposely stuck CAT5 everywhere so I could avoid having loads of wifi devices going at once, all my kit is hard wired with the exception of mobile devices. There is little point having fibre then being restricted by wifi.

I was hoping this would be out by now, my sky is about to be renewed (got 50% off and £50 credit) but will see. As there are only 2 of us in the house I can’t really see it being of much use, for a family would be great though.

Would I’d like to see is 1080p broadcasts (streaming only I’d guess) as it looks a lot better on my projector.

mandos_01

628 posts

100 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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Just got an email saying its going to be available to Sky Broadband customers on 9 February - thats when I'll receive my "exclusive" invitation

tankplanker

2,479 posts

278 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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I've stuck multiple high end WiFi access points at the far corners of my house connected to my router via cat 5 to get around WiFi being generally rubbish and more important for me able to sustain heavy loading from my family. Anything I care about is connecting via 5Ghz and gets more than enough stable bandwidth for 4k video, even when the rest of the network is under load.

Unless you live in a house using thick stone for interior walls you can fix WiFi issues with application of cat 5 (powerlines if you really have to) connecting a mesh 5 Ghz WiFi network. As 5 Ghz has poor range its much less likely to suffer congestion problems from neighbours' WiFi, but you have to have way more access points in a decent sized property.

Having said all that Sky's routers are complete rubbish, no way I'd want to use their networking kit, I'd rather not bother with Q if they try and lock you into their network hardware for multi room.

The tech looks really good and when the 4k channels start rolling out I'll likely resubscribe to Sky. It does what I currently get with my multi room and device Kodi setup but with broadcast content.

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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Nice review from DigitalSpy

But again no answers on pricing.
http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/television/review/a...


I give this remote about five minutes in the real world (dropped, stuck down back of sofa, chewed by dog, sticky toffee covered children's fingers) before it dies.

Moily

167 posts

140 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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rscott

14,690 posts

190 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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If you do drop the remote down the back of the sofa, then just press the Q button on the box and the remote will beep.

Alternatively, just use your old Sky+HD remote to control the new boxes - they've also got IR support with the same codes.

KryptonKid09

193 posts

120 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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This is the official blog entry: https://corporate.sky.com/media-centre/news-page/2...

The one off costings don't entirely make sense I don't think. They make it appear that if you take movies and/ or sports WITHOUT Sky BB, you can still have the Q Silver package for £99. But then if you re-read it, it seems that you DO need to be a Sky BB customer to get that level of discount. I've sent them an email directly to clarify.

Paul

DoctorX

7,240 posts

166 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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less of a monthly rise than I thought (especially if I ditch the Sky Go extra costs) but I wonder how much more they'll want for 4K?

Type R Tom

3,859 posts

148 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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BT are doing 4k broadcasts of football that are streamed, not sure of the extra cost but apparently they only have 1 set of cameras so drag around so not all matches are 4k

rscott

14,690 posts

190 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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Yeah - BT have 5 games in 4k this month.

It's definitely £99 for the Silver Bundle if you have Sports or Movies or Broadband or Multiroom or Legacy HD.

Truffles

577 posts

183 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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Moily said:
I think this may be misleading. The bundle prices announced by Sky are for new customers - I don't think pricing has been set yet for existing customers.

The bit about the box being the responsibility of Sky to repair is wrong too. The news release only refers to mechanical issues, and then suggests people buy extra insurance for the box.

rscott

14,690 posts

190 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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Truffles said:
Moily said:
I think this may be misleading. The bundle prices announced by Sky are for new customers - I don't think pricing has been set yet for existing customers.

The bit about the box being the responsibility of Sky to repair is wrong too. The news release only refers to mechanical issues, and then suggests people buy extra insurance for the box.
Pricing's the same for old or new customers - there is only the 2 base packs, plus movies and or sports (and the various channels like Man U, Asia pack, etc). There's no variety or original pack on sky Q.

Sky are adopting the same box ownership model as Virgin - the box is loaned to you and they'll fix breakdowns FOC. You're liable for accidental damage though.


rab.s

83 posts

185 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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If I am correct in assuming that there will be no additional cost for multi room (£12 ) - the selling point of sky Q. It will work out the same cost for me if I took the silver Q box plus mini box. Currently paying £58 for package including movies plus £12. Sky Q silver is £71 and includes one mini box.

Just need to justify the £150 for the equipment.