13-07-2016, 12:11
I looked into going from Sky + HD to Sky Q Silver today and thought I'd share some of the stupid limitations it has as explained to me by the person I spoke to at Sky.
The Sky Q Silver box is 4K/UHD ready and will record four channels while you watch a fifth channel live.
The Sky Q box is NOT 4K/UHD ready and will record three channels while you watch a forth channel live.
You can only have either one main Sky Q Silver box or one main Sky Q box per household.
Sky Q Silver package gives you the option to have up to two Sky Q mini boxes.
Sky Q package gives you the option to have one Sky Q mini box.
Sky Q mini boxes DO NOT support 4K/UHD signals and DO NOT hold any recordings meaning every recording has to be done from the single main Sky Q Silver/Sky Q box then streamed to the mini boxes via wifi.
So if you have more than one 4K/UHD tv and you want to have a Sky 4K/UHD signal going to more than one 4K/UHD tv once it's finally up and running you can't as you are limited to only one main Sky Q Silver box per household.
The Sky dish needs new components to receive the Sky Q signal as it is a completely different format to the current format Sky digital signal meaning once changed you will no longer be able to receive a signal to any additional Sky + HD boxes you may have in the home meaning you'll have to get a Sky Q Silver/Sky Q box and use the Sky Q mini boxes with all their limitations or have a second Sky dish installed and take out a seprate Sky HD subscription.
Now maybe I'm missing some point somewhere but many people have more than one Sky + HD box and record lots of different programmes/channels which makes Sky Q totally pointless unless you either live alone or are insanely rich and don't mind throwing your money away.
The Sky Q Silver box is 4K/UHD ready and will record four channels while you watch a fifth channel live.
The Sky Q box is NOT 4K/UHD ready and will record three channels while you watch a forth channel live.
You can only have either one main Sky Q Silver box or one main Sky Q box per household.
Sky Q Silver package gives you the option to have up to two Sky Q mini boxes.
Sky Q package gives you the option to have one Sky Q mini box.
Sky Q mini boxes DO NOT support 4K/UHD signals and DO NOT hold any recordings meaning every recording has to be done from the single main Sky Q Silver/Sky Q box then streamed to the mini boxes via wifi.
So if you have more than one 4K/UHD tv and you want to have a Sky 4K/UHD signal going to more than one 4K/UHD tv once it's finally up and running you can't as you are limited to only one main Sky Q Silver box per household.
The Sky dish needs new components to receive the Sky Q signal as it is a completely different format to the current format Sky digital signal meaning once changed you will no longer be able to receive a signal to any additional Sky + HD boxes you may have in the home meaning you'll have to get a Sky Q Silver/Sky Q box and use the Sky Q mini boxes with all their limitations or have a second Sky dish installed and take out a seprate Sky HD subscription.
Now maybe I'm missing some point somewhere but many people have more than one Sky + HD box and record lots of different programmes/channels which makes Sky Q totally pointless unless you either live alone or are insanely rich and don't mind throwing your money away.