Category: Satellite TV
Sky+ now £99*
* But yes there is a catch to the new deal which is being introduced today. You have to be a new Sky subscriber to get it for this price. Unfortunately, as in most things, existing customers seem to…
Philips gears up to launch RC9800i über-remote
Unless you've bought a complete matching set of audio and home cinema devices, you're probably up to your ears in TV remotes that are only needed once they've secreted themselves beneath the sofa cushions. Due for imminent release in…
Everything you've ever wanted to know about Tetris…
Wow, probably the most important game in the world celebrates its twentieth anniversary, with all of the commercial oppurtunitues what normally come when games celebrate anniversaries (re-releasing old NES games for the GBA, without changing them? Come on, Nintendo. And…
SKY HIGH PROFITS
Good to see that BSkyB, the caring sharing broadcaster, is rewarding its loyal customers by reducing its Sky high subsription costs. Yeah right. While city folk may be delighted that the broadcaster turned in a £250 million profit in…
NTL/Telewest Give Nod to VOD
We've always known that cable offers a great deal for broadband, but when it comes to multi-channel TV, SkyDigital still wins hands down. However at last it seems there may be a compelling reason to get cable for its TV…
NTL and Telewest join ranks against Sky
Good news for cable lovers. NTL and Telewest are apparently about to launch a set top box service that will take on the might of BSkyB's Sky Plus service. It'll be a service with a difference, though, since the two…
Is Sky's dominance about to end?
There may just be trouble ahead for BSkyB. Not to get too dramatic about it all, but ITV's contract with the company runs out on Saturday, which could very well mean the end of Sky's monopoly of the satellite market…
Sky+ on your 3G phone?
Today's 3G frenzy continues with news from Sky that it is working on a killer TV application for the new breed of mobile phones. Sky told us last year that owners of the Sky+ personal video recorder would soon be…
New Sky+ box's mystery USB sockets
Today we took delivery of the new Sky+, which regular readers will know has a 160 Gigabyte hard disk rather than the 40 Gig of its predecessor. In theory then we should be able to store at least forty football…
Sky's designer boxes
As if Sky's Sky+ box isn't appealing enough (record any programme for the next week you want into the box's hard drive just by pressing a button), Sky has teamed up with a load of UK fashion designers to…