Homer Thompson Posted July 7, 2016 Author Share Posted July 7, 2016 10 minutes ago, DavidMcG said: Good to hear! My next purchase will be a good 4k TV - got about £800 to spend so i reckon that should hopefully get me something decent for my Sky Q I bought a new tv not long before I got Sky Q. Wish I'd held off and gone for a 4K one instead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quentin Taranbino Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 10 minutes ago, Mr X said: I bought a new tv not long before I got Sky Q. Wish I'd held off and gone for a 4K one instead Just move that TV to somewhere else in the house and buy a new 4k one. You know it makes sense..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted July 7, 2016 Author Share Posted July 7, 2016 9 minutes ago, DavidMcG said: Just move that TV to somewhere else in the house and buy a new 4k one. You know it makes sense..... I wish! We dont actually have tvs in any other rooms of the house. The kids would kill for one in their rooms but we're holding off as long as possible. I might go for a new monitor and hook the spare Q box up to that instead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIEA Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 I love it. A couple of times the mini box has lost its EPG but switching it off and on again has fixed it. Have you given up on 3D tv Mr X ? Seems to have died a death ( again ) Thinking about 4K. It's another one of those need it v want it conundrums which want it will eventually win 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted July 8, 2016 Author Share Posted July 8, 2016 9 hours ago, WILLIEA said: I love it. A couple of times the mini box has lost its EPG but switching it off and on again has fixed it. Have you given up on 3D tv Mr X ? Seems to have died a death ( again ) Thinking about 4K. It's another one of those need it v want it conundrums which want it will eventually win Not exactly, the TV Ive just bought has 3D. We dont use it an awful lot but with a bunch of 3D blu-rays it seemed a bit stupid to abandon it altogether. I didnt realise at the time that Sky would be broadcasting 4K so soon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIEA Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Yeah! Ive got about half a dozen 3D Blu-Rays but don't know how often I will watch them again. Had a wee look at Currys Braehead this morning. I'm not so sure that 4K is so so much better than the tv I've got just now. Techradar seems to think 3D is dead but suggest that in the not too distant future VR could be in tellys as well as gamins machines. Now! That would be something to get excited about. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojito Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Yeah sky have ceased their 3D channel and only now carry a handful of content on demand.The thing is some of the programmes produced in 3D were superb!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fide Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 On 06/07/2016 at 16:03, Mr X said: I posted a while ago that I was getting "no satellite signal" errors quite often but hadnt happened for a while, well it happened again yesterday On 07/07/2016 at 22:39, WILLIEA said: I love it. A couple of times the mini box has lost its EPG but switching it off and on again has fixed it. I had to call Sky as I lost the EPG and just got a spinning circle. I was put through to a "tech specialist" who said it's a known problem they're working on with Sky Q. He said you just have to unplug the Silver box then the mini box and leave them unplugged for 3 minutes then switch it all back on again. That's the only workaround they have, but he offered me a full refund on thr TV aspect of my Sky bill up to the end of July, when they hope to have a permanent fix. Worth a bash, lads? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quentin Taranbino Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Got Sky Q installed today. Fucking love the fact I can have the live stirling albion score and latest game stats at the side of the screen whilst I watch TV. Great that it let's you add your team. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Div Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 I've ordered this, getting it installed in a fortnight as it will basically reduce my monthly Sky bill it seemed a good idea. So currently I have three Sky HD boxes. In the new setup I will have 1xSilver and 2 Minis. I have one 4K TV which I bought late last year. Should I connect the Silver box to the 4K TV and the minis to the other two which are just bog standard HD sets or does it not matter? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Div Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Also how does BT Sport work on this? Currently I can only watch it on one Sky box. With Sky Q can you watch it on any of the boxes? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted August 15, 2016 Author Share Posted August 15, 2016 3 minutes ago, Div said: I've ordered this, getting it installed in a fortnight as it will basically reduce my monthly Sky bill it seemed a good idea. So currently I have three Sky HD boxes. In the new setup I will have 1xSilver and 2 Minis. I have one 4K TV which I bought late last year. Should I connect the Silver box to the 4K TV and the minis to the other two which are just bog standard HD sets or does it not matter? Not sure it matters. All the streams come through the silver box. To be on the safe side, though, Id plug the silver box into the 4K tv Just now, Div said: Also how does BT Sport work on this? Currently I can only watch it on one Sky box. With Sky Q can you watch it on any of the boxes? Is that BT 1 or Euro and 2 that you pay extra for? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Div Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Is that BT 1 or Euro and 2 that you pay extra for? I've got all the BT stuff. Got it free last season because I have BT broadband and I think it's £5 a month this year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIEA Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 22 hours ago, Div said: 23 hours ago, Div said: I've ordered this, getting it installed in a fortnight as it will basically reduce my monthly Sky bill it seemed a good idea. So currently I have three Sky HD boxes. In the new setup I will have 1xSilver and 2 Minis. I have one 4K TV which I bought late last year. Should I connect the Silver box to the 4K TV and the minis to the other two which are just bog standard HD sets or does it not matter? I've got much the same set up. I can see an ultra HD option under the sky box set tab on the main box but not on the mini . Do you find 4K to be vastly better than standard HD? I'm still at the swithering about it stage 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIEA Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Update: The Sky engineer was here this morning to fit another mini box. I asked him and he said that 4K would only work through the silver box and not through the minis 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Div Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 19 hours ago, WILLIEA said: I've got much the same set up. I can see an ultra HD option under the sky box set tab on the main box but not on the mini . Do you find 4K to be vastly better than standard HD? I'm still at the swithering about it stage I haven't seen anything in 4K yet to tell you mate. I only bought the 4K set because it wasn't much more expensive than a normal one and I wanted to future proof myself as much as possible. I've just upgraded my Netflix account to include Ultra-HD and as you've kindly pointed out, that's where I'll be putting the Sky Q Silver Box when it arrives so I'll let you know! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdcal Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Right. Just got installed today. Broadband yet to arrive. Whats the deal with the epg? Why cant i fwd 24 hours or mark hd shows orange? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted November 2, 2016 Author Share Posted November 2, 2016 1 hour ago, weirdcal said: Right. Just got installed today. Broadband yet to arrive. Whats the deal with the epg? Why cant i fwd 24 hours or mark hd shows orange? You can fwd 24 hours by pressing the FF button. No idea what the orange things all about! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdcal Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 You can fwd 24 hours by pressing the FF button. No idea what the orange things all about! Magic. Coloured buttons are missed.On sky hd epg you had an option to show true hd programmes as orange so they stood out. Option seems to have gone.Oh and you cant record or pause manually tuned channels on sky q 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted November 3, 2016 Author Share Posted November 3, 2016 9 hours ago, weirdcal said: Magic. Coloured buttons are missed. On sky hd epg you had an option to show true hd programmes as orange so they stood out. Option seems to have gone. Oh and you cant record or pause manually tuned channels on sky q Maybe they removed that option because its not the 1990s anymore You can filter by HD channels on the EPG, not sure why you'd need anything more. Make sure you set the output on the Q box to the right resolution - it has 1080p or 4K if you have a 4K tv 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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