Sky’s new premium TV service Sky Q is more than just a box, it’s a whole new viewing platform built for flexibility around and outside the home.
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Simon Jary & Chris Martin
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Sky Q is the latest type of set-top box from Sky that offers technical improvements on the existing Sky+ boxes, plus streaming and other home and offline benefits. In fact, with its new user interface, built-in apps and accessories it’s really a whole new premium TV platform rather than just a new shiny box. Here’s our Sky Q review including the Sky Q 1TB and 2TB models, Sky Q Mini and more. Order direct from Sky.
Sky recognises that people now want to watch not just multi-room TV but to share recordings round the house too. It allows you to pause a programme (live, recording or downloaded box set) in one room, and continue watching it in another – bedroom-based TVs look the big winner here. Sky calls this “fluid viewing”.
This term also encompasses synching recordings to your iPad or Android tablet – but not smartphones yet – so you can watch your favourite shows wherever you go via the Sky Q app (even offline).
With Sky Q you’re not stuck watching the same programme as the rest of your family or house dwellers. Up to two can go off elsewhere and watch via the Sky Q Mini boxes (you need to buy the £12/month Sky Multiscreen subscription, where you’ll get one Mini box – and each additional box costs an extra £99), or you can sync downloaded content to a tablet (or two tablets with the 2TB Sky Q). So much for keeping the family together.
And Sky Broadband customers can use the three types of Sky Q box (1TB, 2TB and Mini) to create fresh new Wi-Fi hotspots around the home.
If you haven’t got Sky Q yet, then it’s now available from just £22 per month.
