If you use Sky HD, Sky+ HD, or Sky Q, you may have noticed something slightly… off recently. Not a fault. Not an error message. Just a subtle difference that appears after a restart, power cut, or software update.
There’s been no big announcement from Sky, no email to customers, and no on-screen warning. Yet for many viewers, the experience of turning their Sky box back on has quietly changed.
For years, Sky’s satellite boxes relied on a small number of behind-the-scenes system channels. Most viewers never tuned to them deliberately, but they played an important role in how Sky boxes behaved — especially during setup, reboots, or when the system didn’t yet know where to go.