Sky Q Mini - best TV for 2nd Living Room

[stub101]

Just about to start on an extension which will give us a big open plan kitchen/dining/day room that will include a 55”/65” TV wall mounted.

We’ve got Sky Q with the main 2TB UHD box in the living room on an old (but great) Pioneer 42” plasma, but I’m wondering whether I should relocate the main Sky Q box to the new day room and 55/65” Tv given the Sky Q mini boxes only supply HD.

Does anyone with a similar setup have any feedback recommendations?

I don’t feel the need to upgrade the Plasma in the living room yet because it’s still so good, but the 55/65”’s im looking at will be OLED/QLED so should have good upscaling.

[stevemcs]

We have had sky q for 1 year and I am yet to watch anything in 4K. The boxes are easy to move so once the new tv is in move them about and see if it’s worth it.

[stub101]

I guess my real question is whether the picture quality for general viewing is decent enough on a Sky Q Mini with a 55/65” TV (prob QLED/OLED)

I’ll likely run shotgun cable to the new extension/TV so that the main Q box can be relocated there if desired.

[LocoBlade]

Sky Q Mini quality is indescernable from the main box showing the same HD content, so I wouldnt worry about that. I've also had Sky Q pretty much since launch and other than flicking the F1 onto UHD if I'm watching live (where there's very little difference from the distance I watch on my 55" OLED), I can count on one hand the times I've watched something in UHD from Sky.

Don't forget though that the main Q box needs the satellite feeds so relocating isn't necessarily a simple switch around

[stub101]

That’s really interesting re the Mini and I expected the quality to be much worse - I guess the upscaling takes care of most of it so I’ll just make sure whatever I go for has good upscaling.

I’ll be running shotgun cable for the main satellite feeds to the next extension while the floors are up - even if they don’t get used.

I did hear rumours that Sky are launching new Mini’s in early 2020 that are the size of a Fire TV stick which will be interesting...

[LocoBlade]

There'll be upscaling happening when showing HD content on a UHD TV with both the main Q box and the Mini box so not sure I'd expect to see much difference, the only difference is the main Q box does its own upscaling when set to output 2160p whereas the Mini will just output HD so the attached UHD TV will handle upscaling itself (which may actually be better at upscaling than the Sky Q box).