Sky Q - being phased out?

[PandJ2020]

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@Fidel+59 wrote:

If there is a demand there will be a supply. It's a fact of capitalism. 

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At what price...

[george047]

To all those Sky engineers out there, thank you and I hope that you don't lose your job!

[TimmyBGood]

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@george047 wrote:

 I hope that you don't lose your job!

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Realistically many will.  The mobile workforce Sky is retaining are their 'broadband engineers' who do some FTTP installations (which will end once the national rollout is complete) and home visits for wireless booster installation.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Fidel+59 wrote:

If there is a demand there will be a supply. It's a fact of capitalism. 

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Not a whole lot of stagecoaches or VCRs around these days, despite their huge popularity at the time.  Sometimes technologies just get superseded.

Satellite broadcast has an inherent obstacle in its high capital equipment cost which requires a long payback period: in the absence of predicted investment return for at least two decades they just don't get commissioned, constructed and launched, no matter what current demand may be.

[Dan189]

I have recently gone to.sky stream.and have the terrible clicking and popping sound from my soundbar which seems to be an inherent fault with the puk that streams sky. I have looked on sky forums and lots of.people have same problem. So I'm still within 30 day cooling.off.period so.want to go to sky q . 

[Fidel+59]

Everything other than Sky Q is a downgrade. 

[Chodley]

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@Dan189 wrote:

I have recently gone to.sky stream.and have the terrible clicking and popping sound from my soundbar which seems to be an inherent fault with the puk that streams sky. I have looked on sky forums and lots of.people have same problem. So I'm still within 30 day cooling.off.period so.want to go to sky q . 

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You'll have to call them

[OfWolfAndMan]

Is Sky phasing out Sky Q and moving toward streaming services?

[Daniel0210]

@OfWolfAndMan 

Sky Q has about 5 years left before the satellite will run out of propulsion. 

[OfWolfAndMan]

Thank you for the quick reply. 

[TimmyBGood]

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@OfWolfAndMan wrote:

Is Sky phasing out Sky Q and moving toward streaming services?

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Probably, although no such announcement has been made.  As @Daniel0210 indicates, the three satellites at 28.2E, which do not belong to Sky, will reach end-of-life around the turn of the decade, and their owner (SES in Luxembourg) apparently hasn't placed any order for new orbital hardware to be manufactured or booked launch windows to replace them, which does have a substantial lead time.  Not having anything for all those millions of Sky dishes to point at is obviously a bit of an issue.

It's also worth remembering that the satellite boxes were products from Sky as an independent British company going back to the late 1980s, while Glass / Stream is a system from the Comcast Corporation which purchased Sky Group in 2018.