Sky q box with no dish

Username03725

neilmcl said:

For now. Try keeping this arrangement for a number of days/weeks and see what happens.

No thanks. I'm not the OP and have no interest in finding that out. It was an easy test to see if catch-up works without the sat feed connection, and it does. As above though, why would Sky proactively take steps to lose a customer if said customer wasn't watching what he's paid for? That's some weird business model. Which may mean that Sky do implement such a lockout. I doubt it though.

emmajones1976

Username03725 said:

neilmcl said:

For now. Try keeping this arrangement for a number of days/weeks and see what happens.

No thanks. I'm not the OP and have no interest in finding that out. It was an easy test to see if catch-up works without the sat feed connection, and it does. As above though, why would Sky proactively take steps to lose a customer if said customer wasn't watching what he's paid for? That's some weird business model. Which may mean that Sky do implement such a lockout. I doubt it though.

Suppose that depends how Sky operate. In the olden days when you had Multiroom you had to keep it hooked up to a phone line, so they could ring the box every so often to check it was still at the primary address.
Obviously that isnt the case with Sky Q but I have no idea if you have to keep it hooked up to a dish.

Username03725

I neither know nor care. Perhaps someone should phone them to see what happens if you run a Q box without the sat connection but continue to use it exclusively for catch up via the internet feed. Tbh if they said it would stop working after a pre-determined period even though I'm still watching their stuff via catch-up, I'd be keen to know why. Like I said, that would be a weird business model insisting that even though I've paid they'll lock the box if I don't use the sat feed to watch, and that internet feeds don't count. 

emmajones1976

You say its a weird business model, it would also be "weird" behaviour from the customer to pay for something they didnt choose to get (i.e. not put a dish up), but horses for courses and all that.

Username03725

emmajones1976 said:

You say its a weird business model, it would also be "weird" behaviour from the customer to pay for something they didnt choose to get (i.e. not put a dish up), but horses for courses and all that.

But we've covered that - continue to pay and continue to be able to watch existing recordings, and to be able to watch new programming via the various catch-up services that work in parallel with the sat feed.

The more issues people throw up as obstacles the more sense it makes that the box will continue to work. The Sky Q box is a very good PVR with a very effective UI - it doesn't become useless if its prime functionality is disabled, nor should Sky penalise a customer who continues to pay and watch content albeit via a different source into the Q box.

emmajones1976

It would become useless to me tbh, I am not watching sports on catch up. Everyone is different.

Username03725

Oh for heavens sake. I give up. 

Is this the 5 minute argument or the full half hour?

emmajones1976

We are allowed to disagree you know! I wont lose any sleep over it.

Username03725

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rickyroma said:

We are about to move house but I doubt we could get the dish up in a suitable place at the new house. We have a few months left on our sky contract so would probably still use the sky q box with no dish. I know the live channels would be lost but stuff like Netflix and YouTube would still be OK. Not sure about stuff like the box sets, catch up services and stuff in the on demand section etc. When we go for this stuff it says "downloading" so am I right to assume this is all done over WiFi with no need for a signal from the dish? 
 To put it simply... What do we lose by not having a dish signal? 
Sky glass might be an option in the future but that's months (years?) away as an option for us 

I thought that "catchup" came via the internet ?

ie) Independant of satellite connection