A few people I know have Sky Q with extra mini (multi-room) boxes and are finding it quite buggy. I’m not remotely tempted at the moment, even considering binning my 2nd (multiroom box) – and just paying £5 for SkyGo extra (currently included with multiroom).
Regards RF distribution and Q, mentioned on another thread this is possible for Q – but a bit of a one off outlay. Just finished mine (using old RF wiring) and helped a neighbour do similar at the weekend (they have Q without any extra miniboxes). You need to split the HDMI output of the Sky (Q) box for about a tenner, feed one output to your telly and one to one of these or these. The downside with Q is it doesn’t even support the IO RF adapter used on newer Sky HD boxes, so you need another solution for remote control. On good old Sky HD the magic eyes still work, but you just ignore the analogue channel and watch remotely in HD.
This is all dependent on good quality RF distribution, as the modulator channel runs at 16-19MB. You have to re-tune your TVs (and they need a DVBB-T2 tuner) but after that the modulated channel shows up as another Freeview(HD) channel in your line up (you can call it whatever you like).
I’ve actually shifted my setup so the modulator is on the output of my AV amp (default input is Sky), so can also distribute my Roku, Xbox and PC (all connected to the amp) to every room in the house – using apps to control the xbox and roku remotely. Very sad I know.
I signed up for Sky Q, broadband, calls, the whole package, at Currys when I also bought a TV from there, spotted the TV at Currys online and asked for it to be delivered. But, as I have previously said elsewhere, I sat there for nearly 2 hours before I got the deal I wanted. I would not pay any other installation apart from the “Know How” ( :negative: ) Guys, who were btw complete morons. I had 3 “Experts” in Currys at one point and walked away twice. Eventually they went away to go into conference and I got my deal. I had so much trouble before it was all sorted, that I will cancel at the end of the contract.
When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.
People I know have had most grief with the miniboxes – especially if running over WiFi. Big improvement with homeplugs in a couple of cases. The main boxes seem to be prone to a freeze/lockup every now and then (like all sky boxes).
I think Duke called it right when he said Sky Q is the right solution at the wrong time – the fact that paid content is so fragmented now – Sky isn’t the one stop shop it used to be so basing your home AV setup round Sky makes less sense. If Sky lose the cricket they are gone!
BL taking about when i said the Q is ten years too late. Take a look at this box, it’s a hdmi switcher that dives into each conected box, wether it be Roku, Apple TV, Android TV, fire TV, cable tv(its American demo) play station, just pulls the apps out, and puts its own unified ui that is fully voice capabe, via an echo, Google voice, or its own remote, also not only van you navigate with the included remote you can also just pic up any remote, and it seamless switches it.
I can’t do this thing justice, just watch it. It’s 15mins long, and the frost run of 5000 boxes is June, and will be $400, he said they will be betas and then the second run will be cheaper.
It think it’s worth the 400 usd tbh. This will be great.
Must be somthing to do with the browser. It works ok my end but I’m on my phone, so it opens in the app and not in the browser.
The box itself is 12 months of full retail release, I can see he wood dropped completely with the sub 400usd. I’d guess this will be £200 time it launches.
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