What Is Sky Q
Sky Q:everything you need to know
Sky Q is Sky’s next-generation TV platform, bringing Sky TV to multiple rooms, screens and devices for a “fluid viewing” experience - complete with 4K Ultra HD content. Here’s everything you need to know.
Sky Q aims to “reimagine TV”, merging live TV with catch-up and on-demand content, streaming video apps, wireless music and more. And it's all accessible across a range of devices, wherever you want to access it. At least that’s the theory.
So what exactly does the new Sky TV service offer? From the new Sky Qboxes to all the features, the 4K content to the cost, and the new-look interface to the Sky Q app - here’s everything you need to know about Sky Q
What is Sky Q?
Sky Q is Sky’s next-generation TV service, which promises “a whole new way of watching TV”. The plan is to create a new ecosystem of Sky products that can all communicate wirelessly, giving you access to all of Sky’s content, whenever and wherever you may want it.
That means both in the home, thanks to new Sky Q boxes (and a new Sky Q Hub broadband router), and out and about, connecting to tablets and phones using a new Sky Q app.
Not only does this give you access to live and on-demand Sky content across all your devices, it also means you can watch programmes recorded on your Sky box in other rooms and, for the first time, on the move.
Sky Q comes with a brand new interface and TV guide, a new touchpad remote and new features, including Apple AirPlay, Bluetooth and apps such as YouTube.
It doesn’t work with existing Sky products, so you can't connect it to your existing Sky+ boxes. In fact, the Sky Q box is now the standard Sky box, signalling the end of the road for the Sky+HD box (at least for new customers).
Sky stated in January 2017 that Sky Q is in around 600,000 homes in the UK, while also revealing there will be a new box in 2018 that will allow access to Sky Q TV over broadband and without the need for a satellite dish - a first for Sky.
Sky Q comes with a brand new interface and TV guide, a new touchpad remote and new features.
What is Fluid Viewing?
If you've seen the Sky Q advert, then you'll be aware of ‘Fluid Viewing’. But what does it actually mean? Essentially, it’s being able to watch whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want.
Sky Q frees up Sky’s content offering, doing away with the idea that it’s all about the Sky TV box. The Sky Q box is the engine of your home entertainment system, but you can now watch any Sky content on any other screen in the house, or on a tablet or phone. And not just on-demand programmes, but your Sky recordings too - stored on the main box, they’re accessible on any other Sky Q device.
You can start watching a programme on one TV, then pause the action, move to another room, and continue where you left off on a different TV. All using your wireless network. Mmm, fluid.
This feature also applies to mobile devices. Using the Sky Q app you can download Sky content for offline viewing on your tablet - so fluid viewing extends outside of the home, too.
All of this is done over your home wi-fi network, with Sky referring to Sky Q as a “wireless home entertainment system”.
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