Will we ever get a timeout option..

[will28]

..what I mean by a timeout option is when your on the sky home screen and/or in recordings etc even when you first switch on sky Q or opened it the other ways.

If so nothing with it for saying 5 minutes it times out and goes back to the channel you were last viewing live 

[MightyQuinn]

Hi @will28   Sky Q is approaching end of life. The chances of any timeout changes is practically zero.

[will28]

That's a shame could of been useful to have.

End of life? What does that mean a whole new system e.g. "Sky R" or will all be forced on to the much inferior sky glass working via internet, when are sky Q boxes need replacing or were new users?

[Daniel0210]

@will28 

The whole 'satellite' style of receiving a TV signal will end towards the end of the decade when the fuel powering the satellites runs out. At this stage the alternatives will be Stream or Glass. 

[Raider999]

@will28 it is the satellites themselves that will stop working in a few years time rather than the skyQ boxes.

Yes we will be forced to move to Glass or the other Internet based system.

Unfortunately,  sky+ problems are giving Q users a foretaste of the lack of functionality that a streaming service without recording facilities offers.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Daniel0210 wrote:

@will28 

The whole 'satellite' style of receiving a TV signal will end towards the end of the decade when the fuel powering the satellites runs out. 

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Satellites are generally solar-powered (although some have nuclear fuel cells)

It's positioning propellant which is expended from a finite on-board supply, and without that the precision of their location starts to degrade to the point where they either have to be parked in a 'graveyard' or deorbited.

[will28]

surely they can launch new satellites or go up there and refuel them I mean sat navnin cars and GPS in general won't be allowed to just stop working.

But at any rate if one day were forced on to sky by internet hope it's lot better than glass I've seen reports of how that freezes,lags doesn't work well. Also the cost will have to be on the same as sky Q anyway as you said it's what 6+ years away so will all cross that bridge later 😂

[PandJ2020]

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@will28 wrote:

surely they can launch new satellites

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Yup, but they're expensive.

[TimmyBGood]

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@will28 wrote:

surely they can launch new satellites or go up there and refuel them I mean sat navnin cars and GPS in general won't be allowed to just stop working.

No current satellite was designed to be refueled in orbit, and consequently there's no existing space vehicle to carry out such a task.  New broadcast platforms cost around £100,000,000 each to build and launch, and it's unlikely anyone is now prepared to invest that kind of money to continue to provide the UK (which has a relatively small number of households compared to continental Europe) with a television technology from the last century.  GPS is an entirely different system operated by the US Government using its own dedicated fleet of over 30 orbiters: there's also an EU version called Galileo with more than 20 satellites in orbit.

But at any rate if one day were forced on to sky by internet hope it's lot better than glass I've seen reports of how that freezes,lags doesn't work well.

Glass works fine with sufficient bandwidth to the address and adequate local WiFi.  The television sets themselves are now rather elderly and not particularly well specified, but that's a different issue. Stream pucks deliver the same Sky subscription content and are better value.

Also the cost will have to be on the same as sky Q anyway as you said it's what 6+ years away so will all cross that bridge later

The Sky contract with SES (which owns and operates the trio of Astra satellites at 28.2E that have a footprint over the UK and Ireland) runs up until the end of 2028: serious  commercial decisions will have to be made well before then.

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