Sky is making big changes to its hardware that will make its service a bit more user friendly, a lot more flexible and will also add 4K into the mix too. All of this will help the company fight Netflix, Amazon and BT Sport all of whom are slicing bits of Sky's business.
First up there's a newly-designed box. Which is called Sky Q Silver which has a 2TB drive and 12 tuners. That's a lot of tuners. More on that later though. The box can record four shows at a time, and will support new 4K resolutions.
Sky is also adding in the ability to have boxes in multiple rooms of your house. The Sky Q Mini will allow for two extra machines which can show on-demand Sky content delivered via the internet and content recorded on your main box. It needs no connection to the satellite dish. Recorded content can also be played on a tablet or phone - streamed from the main box.
Sky's 12 tuners suggest further options too. Sky is a shareholder in a project run by SES Astra called SatIP. This is likely to be what allows the streaming from box to box, but it also allows you to stream live TV to secondary set top boxes.
One question that remains is about people using a VPN to stream content to boxes outside your home network. That would be a big problem for Sky, and as such one it will be keen to avoid.
The whole package here will be rounded off with a new, Netflix-style interface that uses a new remote control to navigate. This part looks a lot like Apple TV, but of course Sky's box will have been in development for a long time, possibly even years, so this isn't a rip-off.