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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k
Sky have recently renewed the contracts, you're done with arguing because once again you've been proven wrong.
What will likely happen is a skyq hybrid box that has both streaming live channels and viewing sattelite channels with a option to record from both.
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I know that, Legendkiller. How does that conflict with what I have said?
Your second point about the hybrid box is beside the point, and such an announcement has not been made by Sky. As far as I know, Sky Q viewers will be moved over to Sky Stream.
It is highly unlikely that Sky would want to pay for costly transponder space when the alternative of streaming is available.
It’ll all come out in the wash.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
One has to wonder (if there is no future in satellite broadcasting) why SES is launching two new satellites in 2027 (SES26 and Astra 1Q)?
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The contract with SES will have expired by 2030. While I accept that there might be one more extension after that, Sky will no longer be using satellites for their broadcasting by 2035.
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...ntil-2029.html[EXTRACT]
Global satellite provider SES, which operates a network of nearly 70 satellites that can deliver video and data services to 99% of the world’s population, has today announced an extension of their existing partnership with Sky that will see them continuing to provide capacity to support the Sky Q TV service in the UK and Ireland until the end of 2029.
Sky UK has spent the past couple of years putting a lot more effort into pushing their new internet-based streaming platforms, Sky Glass (Sky integrated streaming TV set) and Sky Stream (streaming set-top-box), which are standalone products that use your home broadband ISP and WiFi connection to stream Sky’s on-demand video content and live TV channels – without the need for a satellite dish.