With Sky Q, Sky has created a TV platform that truly fits seamlessly with a modern home. By flinging live and recorded content around rooms and across your mobile devices – while integrating online services like Netflix and Spotify – Sky Q is close to being the perfect home entertainment platform. You’ll have to pay for the privilege though.
Sky Q is one of the best TV subscription services on offer right now. Since Sky Q first launched back in 2016, the premium platform has grown with a range of new technologies including 4K video and Dolby Atmos audio, support for voice control, integration with Netflix and Spotify, and extensive viewing options across smartphones and tablets for watching content while you’re on the move. I have had Sky Q since it first came out it is something I do find expensive even when I have friends and family discount (half price).
Sky Q launched with a fancy touch-sensitive remote, which took a bit of getting used to but made navigating its swishy menus quick and easy.
There’s no doubt that Sky Q makes everything else look old fashioned, but it’s also hard to shake the feeling that it solves problems that for some people probably don’t currently exist. Just look at the homes the people in Sky’s Q adverts live in: they’re luxury penthouse apartments with floor-to-ceiling windows or large, four-bed houses.
In those even in more modest family homes Sky Q will make a great deal of sense. It’s a more seamless, neat and, OK, fluid experience than the rather archaic multiroom option that Sky was already offering. For those of us in one- or two-bedroom houses, though, Sky Q’s extra features will look like luxuries that might not be worth the extra expense.
But don’t let that take away from the fact that this is impressive, well-realised technology that you can’t get anywhere else. Sky Q isn’t for everyone (at least not yet). I use mine along with IPTV. I used to have 3 boxes but was paying too much and then changed all my boxes over to IPTV apart from my main TV.
Sky Q works flawlessly and could change the way you watch TV.
GOOD
Slick new interface
Fluid Viewing works brilliantly
Nice new remote
4K looks great – especially movies
BAD
Expensive
Remote can be a little over-sensitive
Prone to the odd crash
