Sky Q price – from £42/month, but actually it’s complicated

£42 a month sounds relatively affordable compared to the price for Sky’s existing entry-level package, but considering you could shell out up to £75 a month for all the HD, sport and film channels, we’re expecting the cost to skyrocket as you add extra channel packs.

While the service itself is an impressive proposition, Sky had been staying suspiciously quiet on the pricing, leaving people to wonder exactly how expensive it will be. The new set-top box will go on sale on 9th February, and setup costs will start from just £99 when home installations begin later that month.

All customers who already have Sky Broadband or who purchase Sky Broadband when buying Sky Q will also receive our new Sky Q Hub that turns Sky Q boxes into Wi-Fi hotspots, giving a supercharged Sky Broadband experience with the strongest and best coverage throughout the home.

The base cost of the Sky Q package will be £42 per month, but interestingly there will be no upfront cost attached to the new high-end hardware.

After months of waiting and speculation, Sky has finally revealed how much its new satellite television service Sky Q is going to cost.

Adding Sky Movies will cost new customers £17 extra a month, and an extra £25.50 for Sky Sports.

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. Alternatively, you can pay an extra £34.50-per-month to get both Sky Movies and Sky Sports, taking the total cost of Sky Q to either £76.50-per-month for the regular bundle or £88.50-per-month for the Silver bundle.

If you’ve got a little more money to burn, the Sky Q Silver bundle could be the one for you.

The box was developed in association with Roku, in which Sky holds a minority stake.

WIRED’s Jeremy White went hands-on with the Sky Q earlier this week, and said it appeared to be an extensive rebuild of the service with a lot of potential for future growth.

Three years in the making, Sky’s answer looks to be a pretty comprehensive one.

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.

The Sky Q Silver bundle gives you all of the above, but gives you a better set top box, which lets you record 300 hours of TV, and record four shows while watching a fifth.

You just have to pay through the nose for the privilege…