Not a sky fan
Established Member
Id like customers to know what they are in for. Q is not an advancement over plus. Q has UHD, which is barely better than HD as even the sky MD mentioned at launch. Q has the option to record 6 programmes at once. Which with on demand services these days you’ll never need.
If you have sky plus and thinking of “upgrading” think very carefully. If your tv is HD only, dont. If your tv is uhd capable, debatable.
If your tv is not a smart tv or other TVs in the house lack smart feature maybe.
Sky plus had poor distribution via rf. but you could feed at as many TVs as your set up would allow.
Sky q will only allow 2 extra mini boxes. And these are NOT uhd.
So you can only feed 1 tv with uhd from sky. 3 boxes Max per household.
HDR is a bit of a joke. High Dynamic Range is available but only in 3 documentary’s. Hopefully as a new customer you’ll actually get an hdr comparable box. Instead of one of the numerous other incompatible
models existing customers have and have to pay to swap for and HDR model. Don’t hold your breath on more content either
Picture quality is ok. Nothing more than that. If you watch uhd or hdr
through Netflix on your TV app you will see a better picture than you will via sky’s Netflix or YouTube app
Audio has done DD+ but it’s pointless because sky don’t know what it means to delay the audio to match the picture and get the lip sync right. Increasing the “delay “ setting actually advances the audio relative to the picture there by making the discrepancy worse. How sky have managed to make the mistake, and then continue to ignore it in each update since launch is frankly a disgrace.
Then there’s the audio drop outs. Garbled under water noises Jim Davidsons dodgy microphone would be proud of. How’s that with your DD+ top of the line audio system?
They dropped the ring main extender for distribution before launch all those years ago as they couldn’t make it work. They also motorised a touch remote control feature. Yep you guessed it they couldn't make that work either. But they didn’t remove that feature, rather add a setting to turn touch off. Then realised there’s no point having a touch remote at all so they no longer ship the much nicer touch remote with the box.
Will update as time goes by
Not impressed personally
If you have sky plus and thinking of “upgrading” think very carefully. If your tv is HD only, dont. If your tv is uhd capable, debatable.
If your tv is not a smart tv or other TVs in the house lack smart feature maybe.
Sky plus had poor distribution via rf. but you could feed at as many TVs as your set up would allow.
Sky q will only allow 2 extra mini boxes. And these are NOT uhd.
So you can only feed 1 tv with uhd from sky. 3 boxes Max per household.
HDR is a bit of a joke. High Dynamic Range is available but only in 3 documentary’s. Hopefully as a new customer you’ll actually get an hdr comparable box. Instead of one of the numerous other incompatible
models existing customers have and have to pay to swap for and HDR model. Don’t hold your breath on more content either
Picture quality is ok. Nothing more than that. If you watch uhd or hdr
through Netflix on your TV app you will see a better picture than you will via sky’s Netflix or YouTube app
Audio has done DD+ but it’s pointless because sky don’t know what it means to delay the audio to match the picture and get the lip sync right. Increasing the “delay “ setting actually advances the audio relative to the picture there by making the discrepancy worse. How sky have managed to make the mistake, and then continue to ignore it in each update since launch is frankly a disgrace.
Then there’s the audio drop outs. Garbled under water noises Jim Davidsons dodgy microphone would be proud of. How’s that with your DD+ top of the line audio system?
They dropped the ring main extender for distribution before launch all those years ago as they couldn’t make it work. They also motorised a touch remote control feature. Yep you guessed it they couldn't make that work either. But they didn’t remove that feature, rather add a setting to turn touch off. Then realised there’s no point having a touch remote at all so they no longer ship the much nicer touch remote with the box.
Will update as time goes by
Not impressed personally