topic Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ in Sky Q

Restore slo mo on SkyQ

Cna — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:14:15 GMT

Slow motion playback should be restored on SkyQ

it was on Sky +

I am sure it would be feasible

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

TimmyBGood — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:22:30 GMT

@Cna

Slow-motion has never been a feature available on Q, so it wouldn't be a 'restoration'.

Given that the Q platform is now a mature eight years old, it's very unlikely to gain new features.

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

PandJ2020 — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:46:08 GMT

@Cna wrote:
Slow motion playback should be restored on SkyQ

Rapidly hitting the pause button emulates it - it's the best we are likely to get...

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

Cna — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:27:49 GMT

@TimmyBGood Restoration refers to SkyQ from those which were available on Sky+

Upgrades and improvements should be a regular process unless Sky is too lazy or too mean neither of which is the case

It would be a good project for a young software engineer

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

Daniel0210 — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:40:57 GMT

@Cna

That's not going to happen now as per the post by @TimmyBGood Comcast, the owners of Sky, are concentrating on Glass and Stream and there will be little difference (if any) seen to the way Sky Q is currently presented.

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

TimmyBGood — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:52:05 GMT

@Cna wrote:

It would be a good project for a young software engineer

Because it's always a good idea to let a 'young software engineer' mess with several million devices that are in daily use?

Also worth noting that Q is fundamentally different to Sky+ in its use of diskless devices for Multiscreen.

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

TimmyBGood — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:55:51 GMT

@Cna wrote:

Upgrades and improvements should be a regular process

And they were for about six years. As @Daniel0210 indicates, Q was the last product produced by Sky based on its heritage as a satellite television company: that's no longer the case with ownership in the hands of a US cable corporation.

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

Cna — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:15:00 GMT

So have Sky/Comcast abandoned the millions of SkyQ customers.
no improvements

no upgrades

no new ideas

Move to Sky Glass

????

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

TimmyBGood — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:26:28 GMT

@Cna wrote:

So have Sky/Comcast abandoned the millions of SkyQ customers.

Not really, because it's still a very viable platform for the majority of satellite television users.

It's just probably not going to change very much from how it is now.

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

simon194 — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:39:00 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:
@Cna wrote:
So have Sky/Comcast abandoned the millions of SkyQ customers.
Not really, because it's still a very viable platform for the majority of satellite television users.

It's just probably not going to change very much from how it is now.

Even more so with the possibility that Sky via satellite has another 5 years left.

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

Chodley — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:17:13 GMT

Platforms with millions of consumer users of varying levels of technical ability are not really cobbled together from side projects given to the intern.

Except the wifi stack obviously.

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

Cna — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:40:54 GMT

Replies are so negative to this idea

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

Daniel0210 — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:47:24 GMT

@Cna wrote:

Replies are so negative to this idea

@Cna

Because the idea has been made many times over the years for such Sky+ features as bookmarks and the feature that starts with the letter r, ends in the letter s, and has eminder in the middle that is sometimes considered swearing on here because it's suggested so so often it gets boring.

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

Cna — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:55:34 GMT

The word condescending also springs to mind

condescending to customers

condescending to young software engineers

condescending to how sky treats customers

thoughtful reasoning is entirely missing

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

Chodley — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:16:45 GMT

@Cna wrote:

condescending to young software engineers

I've worked for some of the biggest software companies in the world for 3 decades. A single software engineer of any age will make mistakes. Adding a feature always takes more effort than you think.

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

TimmyBGood — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:17:04 GMT

@Cna

I'd suggest that we're simply being realistic about the situation, based on a great deal of cumulative knowledge and experience of how Q evolved and how Sky operates.

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

nigea99 — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:51:50 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:

@Cna

I'd suggest that we're simply being realistic about the situation, based on a great deal of cumulative knowledge and experience of how Q evolved and how Sky operates.

@Cna

I am sorry that you feel the way you do about some of the replies here but I think @TimmyBGood 's reply above sums it all up really.

We know, only too well, that some features on SKY +/HD have never been implemented on Q and , in reality, if they were going to be would have been done a long time ago

I, personally, still miss Bookmarks for instance & even I, in my old SKY HD days (>6 years now), occasionally used the slo-mo feature & would appreciate it if it had been implemented on Q

We may not all agree on why or how SKY does things but, probably, those responding are just more in tune with them.

We, do, also, have to face facts that Stream is the way forward for SKY both here and multinationally and will take most of the development resource with SKY Q really only getting tweaks here & there.

The biggest development for Q I would have liked to see implemented - although I know it is not simple for Q - is some form of User profiles.

It does not affect me as I live alone but I know those with families - especially with multi-generational members - would find this very beneficial & would help alleviate the problems that old SKY Multiroom users with recordings on separate boxes find when moving to Q where they cannot separate recordings

We probably all have ideas of minor ways in which Q could be changed to better suit our personal desires but we do, unfortunately ,have to accept that SKY may see things quite differently - as indeed other customers may.

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

Mr-TB — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 22:17:45 GMT

Sky Q has some feature improvements like,

Record 7 chanals simultaneously.

Much bigger storage capacity.

Intergrated streaming apps.

But the Sky+ HD user experience was just so much better. Sky Q is so buggy and has over 20 really annoying flaws that still haven't been fixed since release! I always embrace new improvements and upgrades across all my tech but Sky Q needs a rebuild!

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

Daniel0210 — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:56:42 GMT

@Mr-TB

It's unrealistic to think that Comcast would contemplate major changes to a system that has a future lifespan of maybe 4 years. A rebuild is not going to happen.

Re: Restore slo mo on SkyQ

TimmyBGood — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:34:52 GMT

@Mr-TB wrote:

I always embrace new improvements and upgrades across all my tech but Sky Q needs a rebuild!

As @Daniel0210 indicates, it's widely expected that satellite television broadcasting to the UK will cease when the current trio of orbiting platforms at 28.2E (which are not owned by Sky) expend the last of their positioning propellant and so reach the end of their operational life around the turn of the decade. The Sky contract with SES runs until the end of 2028, and Sky/Comcast released what's effectively its replacement three years ago with Glass & Stream. It's perhaps also worth remembering that Comcast has historically been a cable television company.