Sky

Sky offers several services that give you more from your digital TV package, and you can take advantage of some great features with the Sky Q box.

Sky Q lets you pause, rewind and record live TV, so you never have to miss a thing, and you can watch back whenever you like.  You can record four shows and watch a fifth live with the 2TB version, and it gives you enough space for 1000 hours of stored standard definition TV.

Take Sky Q Multiscreen, and you'll be able to watch on another room via the wireless Sky Q Mini box, and you can download your recordings to a compatible Apple or Android device to watch offline whenever you like.  Each Sky Q Mini box also acts as a wireless hotspot, giving you a better Wi-Fi signal at home.

With the Sky Q App, Sky customers can watch content from their Sky subscription, live or on demand, through the internet or mobile.  If you missed your favourite TV programme on Sky1, then you can go online and watch on demand, and if there’s something live you want to watch when you are out of the house then you can get it on your smartphone.

You build your Sky TV package so it gives you exactly what you want, so if you add HD then you can watch channels in stunning high definition, with enhanced picture quality giving you a more vivid viewing experience. You can also add over 350 TV box sets, as well as kids' TV, movies and sport.

Sky customers have the option of combining their digital TV service with calls and broadband or fibre.  Sky operates its own internet and calls service, with fast web connection and inclusive talk time for your home phone.  There are different packages to choose from, so you can pick one that suits your needs.

Taking Sky Broadband or Sky Fibre with Sky Talk and Sky TV saves you time and hassle, because you are just using one provider for all the services.  You can also usually find some great value introductory or upgrade deals for all the services together.

As a Sky customer, you can choose whether you want the standard range of channels, or an advanced and more varied selection.  All the channels are grouped by theme on your Electronic Programme Guide, such as music, documentaries, children’s TV and news.

Sky Entertainment is the base viewing pack, which comes with popular channels such as Sky1, Sky Atlantic, G.O.L.D., Comedy Central and FX, as well as the Freeview channels.  It also includes the style and culture selection, such as Sky Arts 1 and 2, Good Food, Home, Discovery Home & Health and a range of other channels covering food, fashion, arts and travel.

This pack will give you the Music channels like BOX, Magic, Kiss and the MTV range, and you can keep up with the latest news reports with the News and Events selection, including groundbreaking reports with Sky News.  This also adds At The Races, for horse racing fanatics, Sky Sports News for 24/7 sports news coverage and British Eurosport.

Beyond this base package, you can tailor your Sky subscription so it has exactly what you need. Include Sky Cinema for over 1000 movies on demand, with a new premiere every day, or enjoy exclusive action from Sky Sports, and choose which sports channels you want to have, such as Sky Sports Premier League, Sky Sports Cricket and Sky Sports Golf.

You can add a wide range of high definition channels to your Sky TV package, giving you breathtaking, enhanced picture and sound quality.  HD has been one of the most popular additions to the world of home entertainment, providing that cinematic feel in the comfort of your own home.  It changes your viewing experience, no matter whether you are enjoying a movie, TV episode or documentary.

You can also add over 350 box sets including critically acclaimed shows, past and present, all available to watch on demand, and you can add kids' TV, offers favourites like Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Nick Jr.

With Sky you can build a subscription that fits with exactly what you want to watch.  Whether you’re looking for just digital TV, or you want to combine it with broadband and calls, there are several options available, and the range of Sky services are there to enhance your experience.

Digital TV customers Sky Entertainment, which includes an extensive, varied range of channels such as BBC One, BBC Two, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5, along with sister channels like BBC Four and E4, as well as other popular comedy and drama channels like G.O.L.D and Sky1. There are documentaries, lifestyle programmes, comedy, drama, news and music, all included with this base veiwing package.

You can add extra specialist channels and packages to your subscription, so it’s tailored to the TV you want to watch.  You can pick and choose from all the dedicated Sky Sports channels, which include unrivalled, exclusive coverage of Premier League football, rugby union, international and domestic cricket, darts and other sports from around the globe.  You can also get Sky Sports F1, which is the only plavce you can watch every race live and uninterrupted. It's entirely up to you which Sky Sports channels you want, if any.

With Sky Cinema you have access to an impressive selection of movies, old and new, across genres such as action, sci-fi, horror, drama and romance.  Each Sky Cinema channel is themed, and the entire loibrary of Sky Cinema films is available on demand to subscribers, so you can watch whenever you like.  With Sky+ you can pause, rewind and record, giving you better control or what and when you watch.

Both Sky Cinema and Sky Sports are avilable as add-ons to your Sky package, and you can also add HD for high defintion channels, as well as over 350 series box sets on demand and a range of kids' TV channels.

Sky also offers broadband and calls packages, so you can get fast internet and inclusive calls with your digital TV.  For Sky Broadband, you can choose the Unlimited package and have truly unlimited downloads, which means you can save music and movie files from the internet without a cap on your usage.

For superfast broadband and unlimited monthly downloads, you can order Sky Fibre Unlimited, which is Sky’s fibre-optic broadband service.

Alternatively you can choose the more modest Sky Broadband Lite package, which still offers a large monthly usage allowance, perfect for casual web surfers.  With Sky Talk you can choose between the Freetime option, which comes free with the cost of Sky Line Rental and includes free evening and weekend calls, or Sky Talk Anytime UK, which includes unrestricted free calls to UK landlines. Sky's line rental price will increase on 1 March 2017.

Sky Q 1TB box

• Pause and rewind live TV

• Record three shows and watch a fourth live

• Store 500 hours of standard definition TV

• Watch around the house with Sky Q Multiscreen & Sky Q Mini box

The Sky Q 1TB box comes as standard with all Sky TV packages, and lets you record three shows whilst watching a fourth.  With 1TB of storage you'll be able to store up to 500 hours of standard definition TV, and adding Sky Q Multiscreen and a Sky Q Mini Box means you'll be able to watch in a second room.

Sky Q 2TB box

• Record four shows and watch a fifth live

• Store over 1000 hours of standard defintion TV

• Add Sky Q Multiscreen and watch Sky TV in up to three rooms

• Watch content in crisp, stunning Ultra HD

The Sky Q 2TB Box can store over 1000 hours of standard definition TV, and it lets you record four shows while you watch a fifth one live.  If you take Sky Q Multiscreen as well then you can watch in two more rooms using the wireless Sky Q Mini boxes, and stream your recordings to two tablets.  You can take your recordings on the go with you as well, downloading them to your compatible Apple or Android device to watch offline.