topic Re: Kids HD in Sky Q

Kids HD

gk1231 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:25:30 GMT

I have signature + sky sports HD and kids pack. I dont have the full HD pack add on. Normally i only watch sky sports or the terrestrial channels which are in HD anyway so didnt see the point. However when trying to play some catch up programs on kids channels they wouldnt work because i dont have HD i think, surely they cant sell me a pack (the kids pack) and then tell me i cant play the shows in that pack unless i get the HD pack... or am i misunderstanding?

Re: Kids HD

xenon81 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:32:28 GMT

No, that's correct. You need the HD pack to watch the HD kids channels, just as you need the HD pack to view Sky Signature channels in HD. Most channels that require the HD pack still have SD versions available and you can also download programmes from catch-up in SD and watch them that way.

Re: Kids HD

gk1231 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:07:37 GMT

It just wouldn't let me download until I signed up for the HD 2 month trial.

Re: Kids HD

Laing1 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:20:28 GMT

@gk1231 wrote:

It just wouldn't let me download until I signed up for the HD 2 month trial.

@gk1231 Sky signature comes with live TV, catchup and boxsets.in SD as standard you may be trying to download the programme in HD

The default download setting is HD so try changing the format to download in SD

you can change the default to SD by Pressing Home on your Sky Q remote and select Settings, then Setup.
Select Preferences, then 'On Demand default download format', and choose SD.

Re: Kids HD

gk1231 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:25:26 GMT

So I have to change that setting every time I want to download the f1 in HD and then back again if I want stream a kids program.

Re: Kids HD

MightyQuinn — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:44:16 GMT

@gk1231 wrote:
So I have to change that setting every time I want to download the f1 in HD and then back again if I want stream a kids program.

Hi @gk1231 Or you could select All formats and choose SD before you download a programme. It is really a question of what you download the most, kids programmes or F1 (are you sure that Sky F1 is even available in SD?).

Re: Kids HD

mr.tickle — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:29:06 GMT

@MightyQuinn wrote:
Hi @gk1231 Or you could select All formats and choose SD before you download a programme. It is really a question of what you download the most, kids programmes or F1 (are you sure that Sky F1 is even available in SD?).

It's not :). Sky Sports F1 is available in HD and UHD/4K (with glorious HDR for the main F1 sessions and Ted's Notebook). There is no SD variant of the F1 channel or any of the other Sports channels. The only exceptions to this are SkySp News and SkySp Mix.

Note that HD for the Sports channels is completely free so there's no point in the SD versions existing.