There may be more limits for the Sky Q broadband option.

Though my guess is that the market they want to corner with this, are the well off moving into the numerous London apartments that do have FTTP via people like Hyperoptic, and even then 6 UHD streams is possible, though might cause congestion issues if 15% of a 200 flat tower block start using 300 Mbps each for long periods of time e.g. 9Gbps

In reply to a post by ian72:

Satellite is OK but can suffer in bad weather. Moving to broadband for delivery would potentially stabilise this

I must admit I havent found satellite TV to be particularly unstable. In the ~20 years or so I've been using it I think the dish has only ever lost a signal 2 or 3 times (due to heavy snow on dish) and even then it was only for half an hour or so until the snow fell off.

Something that I have been predicting for 30 odd Years.

I suspect that part of Sky's motivation will be to add pressure to the Government to split Openreach from BT when the current broadband can't cope. I can foresee comments like "It works well on our Fibre network in York"

I guess it depends on how good your line of sight is in the first place. I dropped sky for a year because we had a winter with a lot of heavy rain and every time it started raining the signal would go. Got fed up and cancelled and only went back just before Xmas. I would assume it was my dish specifically but my brother had the same issues that winter about 7 miles away.

Don't trust Sky!

Sky viewers are about to lose these 12 channels as of 1st February 2017
One broadcaster claimed it is paid less by Sky now than it was 10 years ago.
The 12 channels under threat

Discovery Channel
TLC
Eurosport 1
Eurosport 2
Animal Planet
Investigation Discovery
DMAX
Discovery Turbo
Discovery Shed
Discovery Science
Discovery History
Home & Health

Edited by adslmax (Thu 26-Jan-17 19:10:40)

I guess it could also be related to dish size? They used to offer two sizes of "mini' dish and we've always been on the bigger of the two being in Scotland.

In reply to a post by ian72:

Interesting move around delivering the TV without a dish. I wonder if that will require customers to be on Sky Broadband as then they could potentially have more control over multi-cast.

I am just wondering how this will work if you are that far away from your FTTC cabinet and only get low 12 Mbps that some people are getting, good luck in them getting SkyQ to record multi Live UHD Channels, its just not going to happen.

If you watch the Sky Q Ad carefully you will notice they say that it can record up to X UHD channels and watch the extra 1 at the same time.

We currently have Multi Room with 4 HD Boxes and have had the option to move over to Sky Q for a while now, but there are loads of hidden charges like £X for each upgrade from HD box to a Q Box then there is an extra cost per month.

TBH, we haven't got any UHD TV's yet so there is no point in us moving to Sky Q here, also we haven't had any issues with our Sky boxes that use the Dish (even with heavy rain and snow) + Broadband (BT) for the on demand and catch-up content.

Also you don't own the Q Boxes, you lease them from Sky, its like VM own their boxes.
Which I think is good, that way when a box stops working they have to come out and replace it with a working one, where as with Sky at the moment if you box dies out of warrantee you will have to buy a new one at you own cost.

Paul

In reply to a post by craski:

I guess it could also be related to dish size? They used to offer two sizes of "mini' dish and we've always been on the bigger of the two being in Scotland.

Agreed, we still have the small dish, but we have a very good LNB with 8 outputs which is located at the back of our house just under our gutter.

Ours use to be at the front of our house since the start of Sky, so we have had various dishes installed including that old huge ugly white dish

But due to being in a conservation area we had to either drop sky and take the dish down or have it relocated.

I phoned Sky and explained the issue and was offered a huge price at first, so I said cancel the lot due to we was already out of contract.

I was put on hold for about 10 mins to then be offered a one off fee of £5 to have the old one taken down (front of house) and a brand new dish installed (back of the house) along with brand new twin-feeder coaxial cables installed.

I was expecting for them to add another 12 months contract, but when I asked about it, they said no and that it was a loyalty offer due to being with them for years.

When I got off the phone I was like wow.

Not bad for a fiver

Paul

I got Sky Q upgrade last week. Brand new small dish plus the LNB works differently. I don't have a requirement for as many boxes as you but Sky Q does seem to work better for me (at least at the moment - I am aware that some early adopters have had issues with it).

Have you turned off Eco as a power setting yet? Oh, and are you using it wired to your Lan or wifi?