Category: Satellite TV
Sky turns to supermarkets for Xmas
Sky is set to make its supermarket debut with a new Starter Pack that will be available in around 60 Tesco Extras stores from November. Costing £39.99, the pack includes one or two months' viewing on selected packages plus standard…
Interactive recording on Sky+
Sky has introduced a new interactive recording feature for Sky+ users. Those wanting to watch tonight's Champions League games can go to the Sky Sports Extra programme guide to choose from eight live games – including Chelsea v Porto and…
Pace debuts HD recorder
Another interesting product from Pace. This time it's a personal video recorder (PVR) specifically for recording High Definition (HD) content. OK so HD isn't exactly widespread in the UK at the moment (not helped by the fact that we…
Pace portable PVR for pay TV
Here's a device that may, one day, let you watch Premiership football or a Sky Movies film on the train or in the car. It's the world's first mobile personal video recorder (PVR) for pay TV services. The PVR2GO…
New £399 Sky+ from October
Well it isn't exactly a huge surprise as we've been predicting it for some time, but Sky has confirmed the October launch of a second version of its excellent Sky+ hard drive based satellite TV recorder. As predicted the new…
Sky's double whammy
Sky, that nice cuddly, and not at all aggressive, broadcaster has made two shock announcements. First it intends to launch a free-to-air satellite platform of nearly 200 channels. Second, it is to be the first major broadcaster to bring high…
Top Up TV goes live
The UK's newest pay TV platform, Top Up TV launched March 31st providing some Freeview (digital terrestrial) homes with access to ten more channels which were previously only available on Sky and cable. E4, Discovery, UK Gold, Discovery Home…
Amstrad Sky+ box arrives
It's been talked about for a while. But now it looks like the Amstrad Sky+ box is finally here. The new Amstrad DRX-180 features a 40Gb hard drive (for 20 hours recording), optical audio output, twin tuners and a…
Sky+ hits quarter of a million
Looks like Sky+, long championed by us here at TD as a fantastic bit of kit, is finally catching on (after Sky finally dropped the ludicrous £10 a month surcharge). According to BSkyB's Q2 results announced yesterday, the number…
Dual Recording for Sky+
Good news for Sky+ owners. Sky has at last downloaded a new feature to boxes that lets you record two channels at the same time. Previously the only way you could do this was by using the live pause…