topic Re: HD upgrade in Sky Q

HD upgrade

mppreston — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:44:58 GMT

I am a new Sky customer on the classic package. I quickly discovered that without the HD add on there were lots of series that I just couldnt download. Such as the new True Detective on Sky Atlantic. Am I right in thinking it's because the channel is HD is that the reason I couldn't download on the basic package? I also wanted to download a series from 5Select and again it told me I needed to upgrade? do I need to pay the addiitonal £9 a month for the upgrade or is there a way round this?

Re: HD upgrade

Padam_Padam — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:48:26 GMT

@mppreston wrote:
I am a new Sky customer on the classic package. I quickly discovered that without the HD add on there were lots of series that I just couldnt download. Such as the new True Detective on Sky Atlantic. Am I right in thinking it's because the channel is HD is that the reason I couldn't download on the basic package? I also wanted to download a series from 5Select and again it told me I needed to upgrade? do I need to pay the addiitonal £9 a month for the upgrade or is there a way round this?

Do you have your downloads set to SD?

Press Home on your Sky Q remote and select Settings, then Setup. Select Preferences, then On Demand default download format, and choose SD

Re: HD upgrade

oldfella — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:00:53 GMT

@mppreston wrote:

I am a new Sky customer on the classic package. I quickly discovered that without the HD add on there were lots of series that I just couldnt download. Such as the new True Detective on Sky Atlantic. Am I right in thinking it's because the channel is HD is that the reason I couldn't download on the basic package? I also wanted to download a series from 5Select and again it told me I needed to upgrade? do I need to pay the addiitonal £9 a month for the upgrade or is there a way round this?

Hi @mppreston

First check that you are not trying to Download or view HD or UHD content without the Q HD or UHD Subscription pack.
The Sky Q Sports pack and BT Sport if you subscribe through Sky are in HD as Standard.
Sky Cinema if you subscribe is also in HD.
Sky Signature includes BoxSets and Entertainment channels only in SD as standard.
Only free to air channels such as BBC, ITV etc are in HD. The Q HD pack is required for all other Sky Signature HD content, including Catch Up in HD, On Demand in HD and BoxSets in HD
If you do not have the Optional HD pack you need to change the Download to SD in All Formats (as HD is the default setting).
So that you do not need to do this every time it’s best to change your Download preference to SD in Home - Settings - Setup - Preferences.
This needs to be done on the main Q box.
Then if you want to download any HD content from free to air channels (BBCHD ,ITVHD etc) you can select HD in the All formats tab of the content . This will change the format for that particular download only but still leave your format to SD in preferences.