Sky Q – the next generation of TV and 2016’s most hotly anticipated launch in TV tech – will go on sale in February with Sky’s lowest ever set-up cost for a brand new premium product launch.
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If you want to add Sky Movies and Sky Sports to that bundle it will be an extra £34.50 per month – for a top price Sky Q bundle of £88.50 per month.
Sky added that Q would come with a “new level” of customer service. Though that extra cost will decrease the more invested you already are in the whole Sky ecosystem.
Two Sky bundles will be available from launch.
Sky has confirmed that Sky Q will be available to buy in February. It also gives you a Mini box for another room, and lets you stream TV on up to two tablets.
Sky has slowly been drip-feeding us more information about its new service, Sky Q. Following the launch in November, we got some hands-on time earlier this month – but release date and price information was notable by its absence. Sky Movies is another £17-per-month, which includes 11 movies channels and over 1,000 movies on demand, while Sky Sports costs an extra £25.50-per-month, which gets you seven dedicated sports channels and live coverage of the Barclays Premier League, Sky Bet Football League, domestic and worldwide cricket, F1, boxing and golf.
AT LAST! Sky Q’s official price details have been announced and it won’t be quite as expensive as we first thought.
The box was developed in association with Roku, in which Sky holds a minority stake.
The real clever stuff comes with how the new boxes act as transmitters to smaller, optional Mini boxes that you can have dotted around your house for multi-room viewing, utilising your internet connection in a similar way to the mesh technology used by Sonos.
But then Sky Q is the top tier of Sky’s TV packages and represents its new “fluid viewing” ethos in its entirety.
There’s a charge for the new box too – and it’s noticeably cheaper for Sky broadband customers.
The base Sky Q bundle comes in at £42 per month, and includes the Sky Q hub, which features 1TB of storage and allows you to record three live shows while watching a fourth.
So it may well be hyper-pricey, but it’s a TV package designed for the modern way we consume our media, without the physical restrictions which have but barriers between us and the TV we love. You can record four different channels at the same time and can still watch a fifth if there’s just that much good stuff on at the same time.
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You just have to pay through the nose for the privilege…
