* Just to clarify before this gets out of hand: Sky Italy is the platform that's getting HDR Formula 1 soon, not Sky UK. Sky UK is a looooooong way behind Sky Italy when it comes to HDR, to the point of it being embarrasing. Sky UK hasn't even started a beta test of any version of SkyQ which supports HDR in any form, not have they issued the firmware upgrades required to upgrade their boxes to HDMI2.0b (required for HLG).
* The April date that's now being copied everywhere probably came from the speculation (not fact) that we'll get our next firmware update in April. This is from >this source< : "The April OTN broadcast is a regularly scheduled distribution, and the HDR GAME MODE patch (which was ready as of October/November of last year) is part of it."
As regular readers will remember, we were due to have the "Game mode" HDR auto-switching enhancement before Xmas but Samsung Korea blocked all new firmwares until the backlog of bugs were addressed because they were furious about the constant buggy firmwares being sent out.
* But I'd be gobsmacked if the April firmware included the EDID fix because this bug was only reported and properly investigated/replicated relatively recently by the DirectTV users, unlike all the older bugs from last year. The message about that specifically passed on the news that there was NO TIMESCALE for that fix. So please DO NOT expect the EDID fix to arrive in April, I think this would be unlikely to happen and you'll give yourselves an ulcer. 
* Samsung is launching its 2018 televisions today (Weds). We are also apparently due to get an announcement from Samsung about HDR10+ on the KS 2016 models at the same event. We'll have to see what they say.
@mrticklewrote:* Just to clarify before this gets out of hand: Sky Italy is the platform that's getting HDR Formula 1 soon, not Sky UK. Sky UK is a looooooong way behind Sky Italy when it comes to HDR, to the point of it being embarrasing. Sky UK hasn't even started a beta test of any version of SkyQ which supports HDR in any form, not have they issued the firmware upgrades required to upgrade their boxes to HDMI2.0b (required for HLG).
* The April date that's now being copied everywhere probably came from the speculation (not fact) that we'll get our next firmware update in April. This is from >this source< : "The April OTN broadcast is a regularly scheduled distribution, and the HDR GAME MODE patch (which was ready as of October/November of last year) is part of it."
As regular readers will remember, we were due to have the "Game mode" HDR auto-switching enhancement before Xmas but Samsung Korea blocked all new firmwares until the backlog of bugs were addressed because they were furious about the constant buggy firmwares being sent out.
* But I'd be gobsmacked if the April firmware included the EDID fix because this bug was only reported and properly investigated/replicated relatively recently by the DirectTV users, unlike all the older bugs from last year. The message about that specifically passed on the news that there was NO TIMESCALE for that fix. So please DO NOT expect the EDID fix to arrive in April, I think this would be unlikely to happen and you'll give yourselves an ulcer.
* Samsung is launching its 2018 televisions today (Weds). We are also apparently due to get an announcement from Samsung about HDR10+ on the KS 2016 models at the same event. We'll have to see what they say.
Is it still not relevant if the sky Italia does not play hlg on the ks TV, and therefore if we did have sky hlg it would not work with our ks? But canwe assume that if there is an update and sky Italia does work on the ks then our sky should work?
Thanks.
