bingodisco
Active Member
Having suffered innumerable issues with Sky Q since getting it a few months ago, out of curiosity tried a quick test of the Now TV app on my Amazon 4K Firestick this morning. I signed up for the free 7 day trials of Entertainment and Movies with Boost to get 1080P & 5.1 sound and flicked through a few different shows and movies to compare with how they look on Sky Q. After less than half an hour I'm left thinking wow, this is what the Sky Q experience should be like.
For a 1080P image, upscaled to 2160P on my TV - it looks phenomenal. Comparing Joker for example to the UHD HDR version on Q, there's barely a difference. Granted I'm sure I'd notice it if my TV was a 65incher or above, but it's not. Game of Thrones looks pin sharp, with seemingly much less compression, particularly on dark scenes, than when I last watched a recording of it on Sky. Oh, and no sound drop outs of course!
Even the interface on the Now TV app was simple, slick and more responsive than Sky Q's shiny animated nonsensical UI.
If Sky allowed 4K HDR Atmos streaming on Now TV it would be an absolute no-brainer for me - Q would be binned in a heartbeat. (Or rather boxed up and sent back to Sky seeing as they own their cruddy hardware.)
For a 1080P image, upscaled to 2160P on my TV - it looks phenomenal. Comparing Joker for example to the UHD HDR version on Q, there's barely a difference. Granted I'm sure I'd notice it if my TV was a 65incher or above, but it's not. Game of Thrones looks pin sharp, with seemingly much less compression, particularly on dark scenes, than when I last watched a recording of it on Sky. Oh, and no sound drop outs of course!
Even the interface on the Now TV app was simple, slick and more responsive than Sky Q's shiny animated nonsensical UI.
If Sky allowed 4K HDR Atmos streaming on Now TV it would be an absolute no-brainer for me - Q would be binned in a heartbeat. (Or rather boxed up and sent back to Sky seeing as they own their cruddy hardware.)