.........I don’t know what they hope to achieve by announcing things that don’t exist.
Thats really odd. I’m seeing the same thing. No 2TB option. I’ve no idea what they’re doing.If you go through the sign up page to be a new customer, then on the equipment selection screen it only lists 1TB boxes (which you'd presume were the new ones). 2TB doesn't even seem to be an optional extra for new customers.
Quite likely the box does support HDR, just isn't enabled yet.Just had my sky q installed, can confirm the new 1tb is UHD but doesn’t seem to have HDR added
Yeah I had thought that might be the case, but there’s no mention of HDR anywhere on it so wasn’t sureQuite likely the box does support HDR, just isn't enabled yet.
Sport is broadcast in UHD. Everything else is download only. I can’t be absolutely sure about the 5ghz lock out as I’m connected via ethernet to BT broadband and don’t want to disconnect it to test, but I’m 99.9% sure it is 2.4 ghz only.I’m thinking at the moment that it will be getting cancelled, it looks like there’s nothing broadcast in UHD (maybe football?) but all the sky cinema etc seems to be HD and UHD is download only. That takes me to the next problem, I can only connect using my routers 2.4GHz network because its not sky broadband, so the speed is only 15Mbs instead of 70Mbs so downloads are taking to long. Not overly impressed so far. Can anyone confirm if the lack of 5GHz support for non Sky broadband is the same for the other boxes?
My 18 month sky contract ends in the new year. I’ll probably go down to the cheaper box then. I don’t have 4k so if it’s HD only, that won’t influence my decision.
Yet another example of Sky utterly confusing their customers. I pay nothing monthly for my 2TB box, but comfortably exceed £50 a month for the packages. Is that what they mean?So with the 2TB box you have to pay £50 per month before all the channels are added?
I've had the original 1TB box 3 years and there's no monthly cost for that? In fact, for the 1st 12 months I had every channel going for jsut £30 per month with an initial deal.
I'd sooner have the entertainment and Sky Cinema UHD content available through On Demand.I’m thinking at the moment that it will be getting cancelled, it looks like there’s nothing broadcast in UHD (maybe football?) but all the sky cinema etc seems to be HD and UHD is download only. That takes me to the next problem, I can only connect using my routers 2.4GHz network because its not sky broadband, so the speed is only 15Mbs instead of 70Mbs so downloads are taking to long. Not overly impressed so far. Can anyone confirm if the lack of 5GHz support for non Sky broadband is the same for the other boxes?
Dunno, it was this part of the article that's confused me:Yet another example of Sky utterly confusing their customers. I pay nothing monthly for my 2TB box, but comfortably exceed £50 a month for the packages. Is that what they mean?
In bringing the price down to half the monthly £50 of the current 2TB box, Sky has given consumers a conundrum in having to juggle the additional recording options against the reduction in storage space. 1TB allows 500 hours of programme space compared to 1000 hours with the 2TB version.
I get that for most on demand is fine but there are times when I will have poor or no WiFi so having UHD broadcast would be good for meI'd sooner have the entertainment and Sky Cinema UHD content available through On Demand.
No, I can't afford it. I'm using an HD LG plasma.wait what? the founder of avforums doesn't have 4k! that's surprising!
You could always queue downloads last thing at night. Even at a snails pace they would be done by the next morning assuming wifi doesn’t fail entirely.I get that for most on demand is fine but there are times when I will have poor or no WiFi so having UHD broadcast would be good for me