Sky has announced details of its annual Christmas offers designed to tempt people to switch over to Sky in time for the festive season. The headline offer is this: Take out the standard Sky package, and get Sky Movies half-price for 6 months. You can get a free Sky+ recorder, free setup and a Marks [...]

This month, the Sky+ app on the iPhone has undergone a transformation – you can now use it to take control of your Sky box Here’s what you can now do on an iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch: Change channel Use two fingers to fast forward through the ads (30x speed) Pause and rewind live [...]

If you’re considering signing up to Sky Digital, note that Sky has today (6th July) updated their offers designed to entice you to subscribe. First off, new customers signing up to Sky will get a £100 Marks and Spencer voucher. This beats the £25 voucher that was on offer up to Thursday the 5th July. [...]

Sky is in the process of rolling out a new-look Sky Guide interface. Our Amstrad Sky+ HD box received an over-the air update last night. If the update has not yet reached your Sky+ box yet, here are a couple of screenshots of what you can expect: The interface is more sleek than the old, [...]

Sports channel ESPN will be making its channel available to everyone for free, for one weekend in February. Between 6am on the morning of Friday 3rd February 2012, and 6am on Monday the 6th February 2012, the ESPN channel will be free-to-view on the following services: Freeview Sky BT Vision Top Up TV The following [...]

If you’re quick, and thinking of getting Sky’s HD TV service, this is the time to do it. For some time now, Sky’s been offering Marks and Spencer vouchers as an incentive to sign up with Sky online. Until recently, you could pick up £25 worth of M & S vouchers, but from now until [...]

Do you get your telly from Sky? Things are set to change from the 1st of September. Sky Price Freeze First off, generous as ever, Sky is freezing its TV prices for existing subscribers for a year. No price rises until September 2012. Given that prices have steadily crept up, customers wanting TV, Sport, Movies [...]

Sky is set to launch a new service, Sky Go, on the 6th of July 2011 The service will pull together Sky’s TV-over-Internet service Sky Player, with its mobile TV offering, allowing existing Sky customers to be able to watch live TV on their desktop and laptop computers, as well as on smartphones and tablet [...]

Argos, famous for its laminated books of dreams, has just launched a TV service. Argos TV launched at 7pm on Wednesday the 15 June 2011. The channel is currently available on Sky (channel 642), as well as online via the Argos website At launch, Argos TV is a 24 hours a day service, but it’s [...]

The 14th of May is a big day in the sporting calendar – The FA Cup Final between Manchester City and Stoke This year, it will be available to watch at home, and in selected pubs, in 3D, thanks to sports channel ESPN. A deal between ESPN and Sky will allow those with a 3D [...]

This coming weekend, sports channel ESPN will be subscription-free on some digital TV services. From 6am Friday 4th March to 6am on Monday the 7th 2011, sporting channel ESPN will be going free-to air on the Sky Digital, Virgin Media and TalkTalk TV services. Customers of those services will be able to watch the Barclays [...]

One of our top questions now has its own page. Got a Sky+ box and need to extract some recordings? We look at the ways to do this, and answer your common questions on dubbing recordings from Sky’s PVR. For those looking to copy recordings from the Sky+ hard drive onto something else, please see [...]

This weekend (11-13th Feb 2011), Sky will be offering a free weekend pass to Freeview, BT Vision and Top Up TV customers. Sky will be broadcasting a showcase of some of their key programmes on the Sky 3 channel, which is free-to-air on Freeview channel 11. On Friday the 11th, shows broadcast will include Karl [...]

Sky has today launched Sky Atlantic and Sky Atlantic HD, on Sky channel 108. This new channel will broadcast a host of US imports from the American HBO channel, following a deal between Sky and HBO last year. Viewers can expect new series including the Prohibition-era drama Boardwalk Empire, as well as the fantasy drama [...]

Today, the 1st of February 2011, a lot of changes have been made to the Sky channel lineup. Here’s our run-down of what Sky customers can expect: Launch of Sky Atlantic – A new channel offering content from HBO in the US – Now on Sky channel 108 Sky HD channels change numbers – Sky HD [...]

Channel One is no more. Channel owners BSkyB pulled the plug on the channel in the early hours of the 1st of February 2011, as part of a number of branding changes for the Sky portfolio of channels. The channel was originally known as Virgin 1 until Sky purchased it from Virgin. Channel One showed [...]

Sky’s non-subscription channel Sky3 is set to become Pick TV on the 28th of February 2011 We understand that the mix of programmes on the new channel will remain generally the same, but the Sky name will vanish from the channel as part of a number of channel changes planned by Sky for February. Pick [...]

ITV1 + 1 launches today, the 11th of January 2011. This timeshifted service of the main ITV channel becomes available from 8pm this evening, on the following channel numbers: Freeview  – Channel 33 Sky Digital – Channel 131 Freesat – Channel 112 Virgin Media – Channel 114 Freeview users will need to rescan to get [...]

Sky has started a slow rollout of their new Sky Anytime + service. In case you’re not familiar with Anytime Plus, this is their new on demand TV service that makes use of a Sky Broadband connection to let you watch live TV via a Sky+ HD box. Sky Anytime+ offers over 500 movies and [...]

Following Sky’s recent purchase of TV channels from Virgin Media, it looks like Sky is planning to shut two of these key channels. Bravo (which started in 1985), and Channel One (recently rebranded from Virgin 1) are apparently set for the chop. Why? It seems that Sky feel that Bravo has too close an overlap [...]