The £299 is reduced to £99 if you have Sky BB, Sports or Movies.

I have Sky BB, Movies and Sport.

and I have SKY BB, Movies and ................no Sport

I just phoned Sky to enquire about Sky Q.
I was told by the lovely Sky rep that I can't get Sky Q as I do not have Sky broadband or Sky Talk.......

I told them that was discrimination against a long serving customer just because I have chosen not to have Sky broadband and that they were monopolising their service regarding broadband.

I think 'Donna' [insert script name of the day] was getting a little hacked off with my bombardment of questions.

Oh well I will just have to slum it with the rest of the non Sky BB customers until they release it for non Sky BB customers.

Does Sky BB have something special my other provider[s] doesn't have? [yeah lower latency no doubt]

I would imagine they are tailing it on their broadband system to how it holds up at first.

I would imagine a global company the size of Sky corporation would research that before a roll out.

So, what happens if their Sky Q crashes their own LLU network?

They usually trial things on their own network before rolling it out

I've ordered it, and it gets installed on Tuesday. For me it is saving £10 or so a month because I have 2 multirooms at the moment that I won't have to pay for, although I do have to fork out for the extra mini boxes.

Also as a wee aside, I have some discounts currently running, and when I spoke to sky on the phone about getting Q I was told these discounts would not carry over to the Q subscription so I would be paying full price from the start. But I checked online and I was quoted a lower monthly cost as I have a discount that still has 5 months left to run. So I ordered online and saved myself £10 a month for the next 5 months compared with doing it over the phone.

last time I was on a non SKY ISP and changed to SKY to get access to their movies download options on the sky box. 2 weeks later they announced anyone can use it and removed the restrictions. Go Figure. That said I have not looked back. I went from 3rd party ISP -> Sky ADSL2+ -> Sky Fibre. All with no problems.

Given time I assume the same will be true around the SkyQ service being available from any ISP broadband connection, once they are happy the service is working correctly and is stable.

now just waiting on IPV6...

Took the plunge and ordered SkyQ silver. Only time will tell how well this works. Bought because of the extra room by default, plus the tablet access, which I was looking for, so made sense.