{"id":671,"date":"2015-11-24T20:57:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magazine3.com\/demo\/technews\/?p=671"},"modified":"2015-11-24T20:57:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:57:05","slug":"sky-q-first-impressions-hands-on-with-skys-new-netflix-rivalling-tv-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/sky-q-first-impressions-hands-on-with-skys-new-netflix-rivalling-tv-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Q first impressions: Hands-on with Sky’s new Netflix-rivalling TV experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

It might finally be worth dusting off\u00a0that little shelf under your telly:\u00a0Sky has just given its TV services the biggest update in the company’s history. Called Sky Q, on a basic level it adds a new set-top box to the mix, along with 4K TV support. But that’s only the half of it. If Sky has its\u00a0way, it means to entirely change our TV-viewing experience – melding together the modern world of live and on-demand content with multi-screen viewing.<\/p>\n

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With the addition of multi-room enabling Sky Q Mini boxes and dedicated apps, Sky Q hopes to take the service well beyond the living room experience – with live, on-demand and recorded content viewable across three TVs and two tablets simultaneously. Cherry-picking the best elements of Netflix, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV and squeezing them together into a single box, Sky Q is designed to be the ultimate menu to service our greedy, mass-consumption ways.<\/p>\n

Of course, aside from 4K resolutions, the content itself is unlikely to change that much. And one key aspect was missing from the announcement – the price, with some experts suggesting an all-in Sky Q package could top \u00a3100 a month. But ahead of its consumer release in “early 2016′, we’ve had a brief play with the big brother to Sky+ HD. Here’s what we made of it.\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It might finally be worth dusting off\u00a0that little shelf under your telly:\u00a0Sky has just given its TV services the biggest update in the company’s history. Called Sky Q, on a basic level it adds a new set-top box to the mix, along with 4K TV support. But that’s only the half of it. If Sky … Continue reading “Sky Q first impressions: Hands-on with Sky’s new Netflix-rivalling TV experience”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}