JamesB - 2 minutes ago »
grahamlthompson - 6 minutes ago »
Sky Q requires a new lnb and just two cables. The lnb is not compatible with satellite boxes designed to be used with ku band universal lnbs. The two cables unlike existing systems it appears cannot be used to provide any other services.
Anyone with existing, Sky, Freesat and generic FTA kit will require a second dish and extra cabling. Those on a communal install look as if they use existing cabling they will not be able to access multiplexed Terrestrial Digital TV and radio services. Those with only a single cable and can't get a second will not be able to get SkyQ at all. Seems to me basically you will be totally locked into Sky pay through the nose services without any easy way of going back.That might be a tricky road to hoe, unless they're going to keep both services running in tandem. Wouldn't it amount to putting BBC behind a paywall, which is not supposed to happen?
Appears that isn't possible.
The new lnb covers the whole of the ku band without band switching (wide band). As a result one cable carries both low band and high band horizontally polarised channels and the other the vertical ones, This allows two cable to feed 12 tuners in the top end SkyQ silver box.
This means the receiver no longer has any sort of lnb control, requiring only a 12V DC power output purely for power and therefore no 22kHz tone to control the lnb local oscillator.
Technical spec sheets here.
https://corporate.sky.com/media-centre/skyq/product%20fact%20sheets
