Is Sky Q being phased out?

[mr.tickle]

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@Daniel0210 wrote:

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@surethom1 wrote:

That was the point of sky Q. You can record what you want. Keep it for as long as you want.

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@surethom1 

Not quite correct. Sky Q was never designed to keep recordings indefinitely although the majority of customers probably do so. It's there for what's described as 'time shifting'. You record a programme, watch it and delete it. 

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Yes, but there's no maximum time limit on most recordings. Certainly for me, 7 or 28 days would be totally useless as a time limit, that short a time would be a complete joke. I record a LOT of content, and watch a lot of content.

Certain things that are "topical" I'll try to watch soon after they are recorded. But we all have busy lives and this isn't always possible. (Have I Got News For You, The Daily Show etc)

Other programmes that are "must sees" fall into another category of "avoid spoilers" - Taskmaster, Traitors (I don't watch it but I know people who do)

But then I have my movies, a wodge-tonne recorded. I watched Top Gun Maverick last week. My recording of it, made from C4 HD on Sat 1st Feb 2025. That's the size of my backlog aka "selection pile" and I really value the ability to record what I want and watch it when I want. There's also the major drama series - these get piled up and I get to them (and love them when I do) when time allows, not on a timetable dictated by someone else.

If you regularly record programmes to watch later, want to skip through adverts (I've been doing this on recordings 25 years now, and have zero intention of ever going back to watching adverts live), or just prefer building your own library of content that won’t disappear at a broadcaster’s discretion or when rights expire etc, then losing recording functionality is a massive downgrade.

[janicewilliams]

I feel exactly the same as you! I hate paying so much to watch TV but we in this family love our telly. My husband loves ALL the sports! Racing, Cricket, Darts, F1, Football! We watch movies modern and war movies loll!  We record random stuff. I can see me running the London Marathon in 2019 so I've recorded that too.  Now the satellite dish stopped giving a signal on Christmas eve so we have had no live tv since then and had to watch sky on the Apps.  Not possible to watch all the sports hubby wants. Watching ITV with the ads is painful!  Watching any ads is painful. Sky are saying we are advised to move to streaming, but I love recording shows to skip ads. I know this is the future but I don't see how this is better. And the price as an existing customer moving from a dish to streaming is the same! I'm sure I am missing something here but there must be an easier way to watch all the sky programs with sports and movies for a lower price. Might have to cancel the movies and just watch as and when. 

[PandJ2020]

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@janicewilliams wrote:

...but there must be an easier way to watch all the sky programs with sports and movies for a lower price. 

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Have a look if NowTV meets your requirements?

[TimmyBGood]

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@janicewilliams wrote:

but there must be an easier way to watch all the sky programs with sports and movies for a lower price. 

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Sky pays literally billions for Sports rights (over two billion pounds for each season of the PL alone) : they'd probably prefer not to make a loss on that.

[oj01]

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@janicewilliams wrote:

I feel exactly the same as you! I hate paying so much to watch TV but we in this family love our telly. My husband loves ALL the sports! Racing, Cricket, Darts, F1, Football! We watch movies modern and war movies loll!  We record random stuff. I can see me running the London Marathon in 2019 so I've recorded that too.  Now the satellite dish stopped giving a signal on Christmas eve so we have had no live tv since then and had to watch sky on the Apps.  Not possible to watch all the sports hubby wants. Watching ITV with the ads is painful!  Watching any ads is painful. Sky are saying we are advised to move to streaming, but I love recording shows to skip ads. I know this is the future but I don't see how this is better. And the price as an existing customer moving from a dish to streaming is the same! I'm sure I am missing something here but there must be an easier way to watch all the sky programs with sports and movies for a lower price. Might have to cancel the movies and just watch as and when. 

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You don't have to switch to Stream (yet!). Satellite TV (Sky Q) will be around for another 4 or 5 years. If you have an issue with the signal from your dish you need to arrange an engineer to fix it.