NEW SKY Q BOX OFFER

[MORIARTI]

We have been offered a free Sky Q box, what's the catch (to do with software updates apparently)

Is this a way of increasing our monthly subscription again in another area. What usually happens is 4 months down the line it's increased!
We have been with Sky over 25 plus years, nothing wrong with our old box.

The old box may not dance and sing so why change it. 
If we do change will they have to muck about with our router as well.

We can see ongoing problems.

[TimmyBGood]

@MORIARTI 

Sky+ HD hardware hasn't been manufactured since 2015 and Sky no longer offers in-premises support for it.  If your box and dish continues to operate it will probably function for live channels, recording/playback and on-demand for the remainder of the lifespan of satellite television broadcasting itself (likely to be ending around the close of this decade) but some interactive service will cease, or has already done so (such as various red-button Sports options)

[TimmyBGood]

@MORIARTI 

Offering migration to Q gets users onto hardware which is actually in stock and still supported while giving Sky the chance to upsell the subscription bundle and take a percentage from the optional streaming apps that Sky+ HD cannot host.

[nigea99]

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@MORIARTI wrote:

We have been offered a free Sky Q box, what's the catch (to do with software updates apparently)

Is this a way of increasing our monthly subscription again in another area. What usually happens is 4 months down the line it's increased!
We have been with Sky over 25 plus years, nothing wrong with our old box.

The old box may not dance and sing so why change it. 
If we do change will they have to muck about with our router as well.

We can see ongoing problems.

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hi @MORIARTI 

As @TimmyBGood says the chances are your existing SKY HD box may last but there is always a chance that the disk may fail.

THE SKY HD box will be OK for Satellite channels that you have had but we are finding Red Button functionality is now switching to app based services so growingly unlikely to work on the older SKY HD boxes (e.g. doesn't work on SKy Tennis and probably not on F1)

You may. also,  wish to read some notes I have made for people considering switching from SKY +/HD to SKY Q

SKY +/HD to SKY Q