topic Re: No UHD on mini box in Sky Q

No UHD on mini box

mwbruce — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 12:16:10 GMT

There should be a downscale to HD on the mini box to save all the hassle of having to record 2 programs just so that I can watch UHD on the main box and HD on the mini box. Surely Sky can get a workaround to this. Anyone else have a workaround ? Just recorded some F1 UHD and can't watch while I recuperate from an operation in my bed.

Re: No UHD on mini box

Daniel0210 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 12:18:23 GMT

@mwbruce

There isn't a workaround. UHD coverage/ recording is not available on mini boxes nor is that likely to change in the future.

Re: No UHD on mini box

nigea99 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 12:19:28 GMT

@mwbruce wrote:

There should be a downscale to HD on the mini box to save all the hassle of having to record 2 programs just so that I can watch UHD on the main box and HD on the mini box. Surely Sky can get a workaround to this. Anyone else have a workaround ? Just recorded some F1 UHD and can't watch while I recuperate from an operation in my bed.

Sorry @mwbruce the only workaround is, as you have suggested, record both UHD & HD, if you want to be able to watch in UHD on the main box or mini box to catch up.

Re: No UHD on mini box

TimmyBGood — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 15:52:00 GMT

@mwbruce

Taking UHD down to HD, particularly in anything like real time, without introducing unwanted image artifacts is a non-trivial computing task and way beyond the silicon found in Q (or any other 'set-top box') : even a reasonably powerful PC would have a significant render duration for that job.