Rumours about Sky

50Twuncle

I hear rumours that Sky's contract with its satellite provider will shortly expire and Sky are not renewing

Instead - they are only planning on allowing internet connections - which will require a Q box at an increased price compared to "normal" HD..
Don't know how true this is - but if it is true - I can see many subscribers leaving Sky...

JJ_Egan

Old old news .
Jan 2017
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38756577

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JJ_Egan wrote: »

Old old news .
Jan 2017
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38756577

Except that it's an alternative rather than a replacement. @50Twuncle posting nonsense, that's a shocker.

DCFC79

50Twuncle wrote: »

I hear rumours that Sky's contract with its satellite provider will shortly expire and Sky are not renewing

Instead - they are only planning on allowing internet connections - which will require a Q box at an increased price compared to "normal" HD..
Don't know how true this is - but if it is true - I can see many subscribers leaving Sky...

I wonder if you have misunderstood the article, did you read the same article as linked to Twuncle ?


Skys contract didnt expire, what happened was Paramount and Sky had a disagreement over money Sky would give Paramount for channels (similar to Virgin and UK tv earlier last month )


The other part of the story is to offer a service via a non satellite option.

justry4n

A Sky engineer told me about this a few months ago. He said it's very close as well as HDR, and showed me the announcement on Sky Intranet.

Obviously, they will only allow you not to have a dish if you broadband is capable enough. Which I believe is 11mb/s minimum.

bspm1

Colin_Maybe wrote: »

Except that it's an alternative rather than a replacement. @50Twuncle posting nonsense, that's a shocker.

Probably taking a break from his NI thread.
:T

bubblegun

justry4n wrote: »

A Sky engineer told me about this a few months ago. He said it's very close as well as HDR, and showed me the announcement on Sky Intranet.

Obviously, they will only allow you not to have a dish if you broadband is capable enough. Which I believe is 11mb/s minimum.

You'll need probably 60Mbps+ broadband for Sky Q without a dish.


A friend got on the trial but only because he had 100Mbps Virgin BB.