Sky Q vs Virgin TV vs BT TV: Multi-room viewing
Like Virgin V6 it has a 1TB hard drive inside it, big enough for (according to BT) 600 hours of SD, 250 hours of HD or 60 hours of 4K content. And if you have a second V6 box then you’ll get another six tuners.īT’s YouView+ Ultra HD box lags behind the other two on this front – you can only record two shows while watching a third from on-demand, catch-up or your recordings. The V6 also goes full kitchen sink on the tuners front, allowing users to record six channels while watching another. The Virgin V6 has ‘only’ 1TB of space (enough for 500 hours of SD recordings or 100 hours of HD recordings), but each additional box you buy adds another 1TB to your overall pool of storage.
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Right now you can record five programmes while watching a sixth, but a forthcoming update will increase those figures to six and seven respectively. Sky doesn’t state how many hours of 4K content you’ll have space for, but we estimate it’ll be about 80hrs. Sky Q’s highest-spec set-top box comes with a generous 2TB of storage, sufficient for about 350 hours of HD recordings or over 1000 hours of standard definition content.