Sky Digital

Welcome to the Sky Digital page, Sky offer one of the best digital television services in the UK as with Sky Digital you have access to hundreds of channels including premium sports and movies channels. It is also easy to get Sky Digital as they often offer free installation and a discount for the first few months so see the official Sky web site to sign up.

There are lots of choices when you sign up for Sky Digital and these include the channel packages that you wish to receive and the hardware that will receive these channels. For the channel packages there are lots of choices and the channels are grouped into packages of a certain theme which include lifestyle, movies, sports, news, documentaries, children's music and many others. When you sign up for Sky Digital you can choose how many packages you want and therefore tailor your Sky Digital viewing to your exact needs or you can choose to have all of the packages and with this you get quite a discount.

The hardware is also important as there are several Sky digiboxes that you can choose from (a digibox is the receiver that connects to your television) and they include the standard, Sky+ and Sky HD digiboxes. The standard Sky digibox offers full access to all of the Sky channels and also offers interactive services, the Sky+ system is much better though as this offers the ability to record television programmes onto a hard drive that is inside the Sky+ digibox. This is great as it means you do not need a video or DVD recorder and recording is very easy, you can even record one programme while you watch another so it is very useful indeed.

There is then the Sky HD digibox which offers HD quality content, to view Sky HD you will need an HD television and for more on this see our HD LCD Televisions page which covers HD in detail. Sky HD is excellent though if you are buying or have an HD television as it will use the television to it's full potential and allow you to enjoy the HD quality with digital television channels.