Sky Q

ECO_Mental wrote: »

Looking at pic of the specs it doesn't have a gigabit ethernet connection only 10/100 if they are looking at doing 4k I would have thought this would be a min spec if you want to stream 4k (not necessary but helpful)

While a bit cheap of them not to include Gigabit ethernet, it isn't strictly needed for what they are doing here.

4k is likely to use only about 15 to 20Mb/s. For example Netflix 4K streams are only 16Mb/s.

So you could fit up to 6 x 4k streams coming from this box and go to other devices (Sky Q Minibox, Sky Q App, etc.) over the 100Mb/s ethernet.

notahappycamper wrote: »

Wonder how the multi room will work in reality- is it streaming live tv from the main box and will there be a delay/is it dependant on your infrastructure/solid walls other wifi in your house and quality of your wiring for the powerline adaptors to work?

Delays would be measured in milliseconds, unlikely to be noticeable.

With it supporting both 802.11ac wifi and powerline, I don't expect it will have any issues with walls, etc. except perhaps in the most extreme cases (i.e. massive mansions).

They mention it will be able to use either the wifi or powerline depending on which is better. A very clever idea. But I wonder if they will go a step further and actually combine the bandwidth of the wifi and powerline to give even greater throughput.

This could be quiet powerful and interesting when you combine that with the Sky Q boxes acting as repeater/access points. That could significantly increase wifi performance throughout a home if implemented well.

The question I have is if this new system will require a new expensive LNB setup?

The pr mentions 5 to 12 tuners, but the box only has two coax connectors and typically Sky LNBs are quad models. So will this system require a new, more expensive and sophisticated LNB that combines 5/12 * streams onto two cables?