Use of a hard drive is irrelevant to the way the box can be mounted (PCs mount drives at all sorts of angles). It's down to heat dissipation - the box is designed to be used flat only. Can I just compare your beloved Sky+HD for a minute. you say it was rushed to market and has issues because of signal issues with mini's. You seem to have got entirely the wrong idea about what Sky Q is. Millions of people are happily using it. I am very happy with it and prefer it to Sky+HD. Can I just divert your attention to satellite TV in general where in some cases a Signal cannot be obtained due to obstructions like trees. Do I hear you slagging that off?????? I'd say a 4tb HDD should have been a strong requirement for the recording/storing of UHD content going forward.

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The roadmap sets out their plans for Q because it's the product which has scope for major development. As you've been told many,many, many, many times, Sky+HD is pretty much at the limit of the hardware, especially the firmware storage space. The whole point of Sky Q is that the minis connect by wifi, they are hardly likely to have mini boxes with satellite inputs as that would defeat the whole design of Sky Q.Still think though that having option to assign a recording to a user indicated by colour would be an improvement. Being able to move them round the house or for some people to be shared with the neighbours I've heard. As he stated, there are alternatives to WiFi for Q - wired ethernet for one. Sky will install cat 5 cabling where required if wireless simply doesn't work There are no attachment points to wall mount the Sky Q 2TB box. Sky also do not recommend the box be placed on its side as it has not been designed to be used this way. Signal issues are network related and Sky will do whatever is needed from boosters to hardwiring to stop it. Customers just need to actually report them if they want them fixed.

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You have absolutely no clue how it's portrayed in the public eye because you are only savvy to tiny pieces of info from forum's that you troll all day long.Minis will never have satellite inputs - that goes against the whole design of Q with a central media server. It would have been a bit more accurate to say that the whole point of the Mini was to have it networked to the main Sky Q box. For most people the networking is done easily using wifi.

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I think with its thin design it could have given wall mount options and indication lights options on top, I understand as fibre broadband infrastructure gets better that the minis reliability will improve from their current status.So far that makes a grand total of one request for a wall mounted main Q box across the 3 forums I use (here, Sky's own and Avforums).

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They do not advise nor mention either lying flat, but without wall mount option I would agree they probably don't think we should.As for your other questions I doubt anyone on this forum can provide an answer as any given would be pure guesswork. Little factors like availability of engineers affect the rollout speed. Sky have said they see 1-2 million Q installs a year being easily achievable. (New & upgrades total). So their supply chain will be designed to match that. As for your other questions, no one knows. I think it's safe to say not in the near future though. If they were to be happening soon, they'd have been on the roadmap published as part of the last financial results.