Ultra HD pack and a sky+box

[vale46rossi]

My contract is due for renewal - I have a Sky+ box (not Q or Glass). One of the options being offered is to add the Ultra HD pack. I have just bought an Ultra HD TV but am struggling to understand how thispack works on a Sky+ box?How do you know it is on/off? With HD channels they are highlighted, but how can you tell which are Ultra HD? And are there sufficient channels available to make it worth it or should i just wait unitl i upgrade to Q?   

[GD1]

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@vale46rossi wrote:

My contract is due for renewal - I have a Sky+ box (not Q or Glass). One of the options being offered is to add the Ultra HD pack. I have just bought an Ultra HD TV but am struggling to understand how thispack works on a Sky+ box?How do you know it is on/off? With HD channels they are highlighted, but how can you tell which are Ultra HD? And are there sufficient channels available to make it worth it or should i just wait unitl i upgrade to Q?   

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A Sky+ HD box is not cappable of showing UHD as the max resolution of these boxes is 1080p, whereas UHD is 2160p.

You need at a minimum Sky Q or Stream.

[TimmyBGood]

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@vale46rossi wrote:

 With HD channels they are highlighted, but how can you tell which are Ultra HD? And are there sufficient channels available to make it worth it or should i just wait unitl i upgrade to Q?   

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No broadcast channel carries UHD other than for a small number of subscription Sports events.  UHD delivery is almost entirely on-demand.

As @GD1 indicates, no model of Sky+ box can output a UHD resolution.  Your new television set will be upscaling HD (and even SD) to UHD in order to fill its screen: the point of consuming native UHD content is that this upscaling is not required and so picture quality tends to be better (plus UHD material often has HDR data too)

[vale46rossi]

OK - I am not very technical but basically from what i can see it is not worth adding the package with a Sky+ box? Bit naughty of Sky to try and sell it to me then..

That's all i need to know - thanks