Discussion topic: Sky stream , honest review
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Message posted on 08 Sep 2025 07:41 PM
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Re: Sky stream , honest review
@Dave.Sky.Q wrote:Sky Q was showing its age for me, once a year you'd have to rebuild the hard drive
Have to say this has never happened to me. Q has its flaws but I've never had to reset the hard drive.
Message posted on 11 Sep 2025 10:45 PM
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Re: Sky stream , honest review
I use movie mode or filmmaker mode that have been calibrated by a professional caliberater with 0 processing enhancers . I watch 4k blu ray, apple TV HDR that are perfect. I also watch BBC iPlayer on the SKY PUCK where I watch shows like blue planet and planet earth that are in HLG and the picture is perfect. So again... Yes it is sky implications. If it wasn't the BBC feed on the puck would be over exposed too.
Message posted on 11 Sep 2025 10:48 PM - last edited: 11 Sep 2025 10:50 PM
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Re: Sky stream , honest review
I assume you mean "Sky's implementation [of HLG]"?
Did the calibrator do a calibration specifically for receiving a 4k HLG signal from the Sky box? The settings are all specific to input / res / colour encoding.
Message posted on 11 Sep 2025 10:57 PM
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Again I watch HLG on the puck via BBC iPlayer and the picture is perfect. If it was my settings I'd have issues watching the BBC (HLG) app on sky stream. A search on the internet confirms this is a known issue and I don't doubt that low peak britness TVs doesn't help the problem but it isn't only an issue related to low end TVs.
Message posted on 12 Sep 2025 05:01 AM - last edited: 12 Sep 2025 05:02 AM
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Re: Sky stream , honest review
Yeah I saw that but was curious anyway how relevant the calibration was.
I haven't seen any significant difference between iplayer and sky hdr but I'm using a Q box not a Stream puck, on a mid-tier TV, a Panasonic OLED about 3 models old now.
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