Sky Q - being phased out?

[Daniel0210]

@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. 

[TPick1]

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.

[ThePope27]

@TPick1 

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

[TPick1]

@Daniel0210 

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

[ThePope27]

@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

[TimmyBGood]

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@TPick1 wrote:

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

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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.

[TPick1]

@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 🤣

[ThePope27]

@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 

[TimmyBGood]

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@TPick1 wrote:

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

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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.

[TPick1]

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.

[nigea99]

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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.

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@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

[TPick1]

@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 🙂.

[ThePope27]

@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.

[TPick1]

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

[Laing1]

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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.

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@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.