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Discussion topic: Sky Q - being phased out?

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@TPick1 

There's every chance the deal you saw /heard about was for new customers. If that was the case you wouldn't be eligible. 


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Thanks for this.  Yes, as soon as we mentioned not wanting to lose Q he lost interest.  To be honest if it had said that on the board out front we wouldn't have gone in.  Shame as would have been a £20 a month saving.

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@TPick1 

In my humble opinion, Sky Q is so much better than Sky Stream, 

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@Daniel0210 

 

He looked up our account and said we were eligible.  Now realise only eligible if changing to Stream.

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@TPick1 ,


Your quite right I have got an offer on my sky account, 65" Sky glass + 3 pucks + full pack is £25 quid cheaper than what I pay for Q at the minute

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@TPick1 wrote:

So basically no reason why the same deal couldn't have been offered with our existing box then

 


It would be quite legitimate for Sky Group to choose to promote and incentivise uptake of their new technology which has a long-term future over an eight-year-old legacy platform which almost certainly doesn't have much of one left.

 

Also worth remembering that Q was the final 'Sky' product, and Glass/Stream is the first under Comcast ownership.

 

 

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@ThePope27 

 

Admittedly I have only read about Stream and not used it, but think the control lost would drive me crazy.  Plus, were long time Virgin customers and moved from Sky a little while ago and only just got used to the box 🙂.

 

Funny, asked the salesman what happens if the broadband goes and and he said basically you are screwed 🤣

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@TPick1,

 

I was with virgin media 360 up until last month, my mom has glass and stream pucks and now I have Sky Q, I tested glass up at my moms house and it was vile. Hated it, everything was 1 click more on glass than Q which made me decide to go to Q

 

The only thing I miss with virgin 360 is the 4K HDR mini boxes 

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@TPick1 wrote:

 

Funny, asked the salesman what happens if the broadband goes and and he said basically you are screwed


Well, yes, but that will be universally true once 'broadcasting' ceases: unfortunately it's unlikely to be a powerful enough argument to convince private investors to pay for new orbiting one-way platforms (which are essentially a 1990s technology), or a future UK government not to take back the Digital Terrestrial Television spectrum to sell off.

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Yeah, can understand the new product push, and also the way the future is looking in terms of viewing habits.  I guess the forcing onto a new product through pricing is disappointing - or that is how it seems it is happening anyway.

 

Not a lot can be done about it I suppose.

 

Cheers.

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@TPick1 wrote:

Yeah, can understand the new product push, and also the way the future is looking in terms of viewing habits.  I guess the forcing onto a new product through pricing is disappointing - or that is how it seems it is happening anyway.

 

Not a lot can be done about it I suppose.

 

Cheers.


@TPick1 

 

I think most companies will push & discount their latest offerings.

 

I think you also have to bear in mind that SKY's overheads for Stream are smaller than for SKY Q not needing the engineers to install dishes etc

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@ThePope27 

 

That's interesting regarding Glass/Stream.  We are going to stick with Q and accept the fact that we will pay more for our choice.

 

We had to move away from Virgin as we moved to an area that doesn't have their services.  I still miss a few things from their boxes.  I found with Virgin that if you set a series to record it would record the current series and any future series when they started.  With Q it seems that it records the current series and that's it, I then have to set a new series to record when it starts.

 

Also, on Virgin you could watch a recording and once finished you could rewind the channel that you left it on when you started watching the recording.  Admittedly that is a bit niche but it was sometimes handy 🙂.

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@TPick1,

 

I'll run Sky Q through till 2028, see what they offer then, I'll either move to their new satellite system or move back to virgin.

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I'm basically just salty that I can't get that deal, save £20 a month and keep Q - lol.

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@ThePope27 wrote:

@TPick1,

 

I'll run Sky Q through till 2028, see what they offer then, I'll either move to their new satellite system or move back to virgin.


@ThePope27 afraid to say there won't be a new satellite system if for some reason Sky extend their contract with SES which i doubt but would be nice) then it would continue with Q. 


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