Category: Satellite TV
Affordable satellite broadband
Luxembourg-based satelllite operator Astra is to introduce a broadband satellite service for SkyDigital customers in the new year, according to this week's ERT magazine It's teamed up with AVC Broadband to provide a 512Kb/s download service via a USB-based…
Sky TV live on your PC
Sky has announced a new broadband platform that will enable viewers to watch Premiership highlights as well as comedy clips and movie trailers on their PC – at a price, of course. It's also teamed up with BT to provide…
Cheaper Sky Plus (and you can program it via a mobile phone too)
We love Sky+ here at Tech Digest. It's a great system for recording your favourite programmes without the hassle of typing in VideoPlus numbers into your VCR. But – and you probably knew there was a but coming -…
£3 billion Sky clouds free viewing issue
SkyDigital viewers who receive only the free channels are now getting a message to upgrade to one of Sky's subscription packages, even when watching unencrypted channels like Sky News – writes Barry Fox in this week's trade mag ERT….
Sky paves the way for PVRs
Has hard drive recording in the UK finally come of age? That's the big question after Sky announced it has now sold over 105,000 Sky+ boxes (up to the end of June 2003). Of course, it's still a tiny amount,…