topic Sky Sports+ picture quality in Sky Q

Sky Sports+ picture quality

giggleberry — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 06:37:33 GMT

When sky sports+ launches on sky Q I assume the multiple games will be accessed via the red button?

However they are accessed though does anyone know what the picture quality is going to be?

SD?

HD?

UHD?

I love the idea of having so many games that I can actually choose the one I want but been burnt in the past when the likes of all the champions league games are watchable but only the main games are in UHD.

SD and even HD with sports looks poor on a 65" TV imo. (I am a bit of a snob picture purest when it comes to the picture quality)

Just wondered if anyone knew as a Google search doesn't seem to provide an answer!

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ChrisGreen — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:13:40 GMT

I was also wondering this - its not remotely clear from the section on SkyQ and the content currently available.

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nigea99 — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:17:01 GMT

I would imagine it will all be HD.

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stereohaven — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:07:51 GMT

I'm pretty sure I saw it reported elsewhere that streams would be HD, but only a couple of hours before you can check with tennis on at 4 PM today.

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stereohaven — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:13:46 GMT

Definitely HD based on a random sample of several live tennis matches now showing.

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Tony136 — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:03:33 GMT

Picture quality of the football this evening is very poor. States it's HD. Nowhere near! Very disappointing!

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stereohaven — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:14:31 GMT

Just popped Barnsley v. Mansfield Town on and quality wise it looks fine to me, definitely HD.

That said, the colours are over saturated on my Sky Q mini and I am having issues with recap on the Sky Sports app on my iPad not working.

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GrahamSchofield — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:51:59 GMT

Very bad quality today for the football it's worse than a SD broadcast, very disappointing.

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MJR50 — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 12:35:32 GMT

It looks like it's a game from the 1980s, but without Brian Moore and Elton Welsby

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GrahamSchofield — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 12:38:55 GMT

The picture quality is that bad they could be on the pitch and we would never know, I'm not even sure what colour the grass is.

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stereohaven — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 13:50:43 GMT

Have to agree, the streaming quality is poor but for me, the Leeds v. Portsmouth quality on the broadcast channel 412 is even worse!

Colour over saturated and what looks like a dead pixel in the middle of the screen (not my TV, I have checked).

The stream on Sky Sports+ is just as bad so it must be a broadcast problem.

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ftballman — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 12:53:45 GMT

Yes that Leeds game has that "look". For me I can never say for sure why but doesn't look right and yes a dead pixel centre screen on the main camera is a low.

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FlippinLiberty — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 13:13:40 GMT

If it's HD then it's not great. Watching Leeds v Pompey and it's pretty poor when compared to Amazon Video Football streams

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Mark+01 — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:56:45 GMT

Anyone having problems with buffering, keeps pausing. I've checked my internet getting 100mbps 🤔

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KezzaRed — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 21:07:39 GMT

From reading another post that sez it's poor with buffering then it must be a Sky issue, one that needs sorting cause it's made it unwatchable

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RetroDave — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:32:06 GMT

I for one fail to believe this is HD 1080 as they say it is, the Lincoln game I watched tonight was bordering on SD! A poor 720 at best... I really thought this would be done right by Sky...how wrong one can be!

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JDavies — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 03:21:14 GMT

I watched the Charlton vs Birmingham game and on the whole I was impressed with the picture quality. It definitely looked HD with none of that streaming "look" (ie poor frame rate etc). However, the stream did keep pausing for a few seconds and then continuing. I have a solid 500meg broadband connection via Ethernet so know that is not the issue.

i also flicked around some of the other feeds and every one had the same pausing/buffer issue, and the picture quality varied from excellent to poor SD on a few games (can't remember which unfortunately).

The sound quality was generally good, with a few pops etc but nothing that distracted from a Blues win(!).

On the whole I am impressed and hope sky iron out the issues soon.

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bigfoot666 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:22:14 GMT

Have to say the quality is awful, no way HD, watching the Mansfield game tonight. The first game on the opening day was fine, but that was a Friday opening of the season.

The two games since have been very poor, the game at the weekend, even the commentary was out of sync by at least a second, so i switched it off!! definitely not HD, to the point where my daughter said why is the quality so bad , just 2mins ago.

Just so glad its not a paid service...yet.

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KezzaRed — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:27:29 GMT

We're watching it for the 2nd time and it's just awful. I notice there's not many Super Users on here with any information or whether Sky are actually aware how bad it is

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lettice — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 19:18:32 GMT

@bigfoot666 wrote:
Have to say the quality is awful, no way HD, watching the Mansfield game tonight. The first game on the opening day was fine, but that was a Friday opening of the season.

The two games since have been very poor, the game at the weekend, even the commentary was out of sync by at least a second, so i switched it off!! definitely not HD, to the point where my daughter said why is the quality so bad , just 2mins ago.
Just so glad its not a paid service...yet.

Been watching this game Myself within the Sky Sports TV app on Sky Stream.

Yes it's not the best pq, but it is hd.

Does not look too bad on my Sky Stream

Having just the one high camera is not helping.