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Posted: September 13th, 2003.
THE COST OF GETTING SKY+ JUST GOT BETTER
BSkyB today have announced a new pricing deal for Sky+ to take effect from 1October 2003 – coinciding with the fifth birthday of Sky digital. The new dealmeans the Sky+ subscription will be free for those customers also subscribingto more than one of Sky’s premium sports or movie channels**. The standardSky+ subscription price will remain at £10 per month for all other customers.Sky+ enables viewers to choose and record the programmes they want, and towatch them at a time that suits them, effectively creating their own TVchannel.
Sky+, the integrated digital video recorder and satellite receiver and service,was launched two years ago, and has been upgraded several times by softwaredownloads via the satellite since then. Over 105,000 UK homes already enjoythe benefits of blissfully simple TV recording: every episode of popularseries can be recorded at the touch of a button, live TV can be paused andrewound and soon viewers will be able to record two programmes at the sametime while watching something they have recorded previously.
The price of the Sky+ box will remain at the recently announced reduced priceof £199. The cost of a standard installation for the Sky+ box will be£50.
In addition, Sky’s Extra Subscription, enabling customers to get independentviewing of their Sky channels in another room by others in the household, willnow be just £10 per month when taken in combination with Sky+ . Thestandard Extra Subscription price will remain at £15 per month for allother customers.
Both the Sky+ subscription and Extra Subscription price improvements will beautomatically applied to both existing and new customers from 1 October 2003.
Jon Florsheim, Sales and Marketing Director at Sky comments, “We knowthat people who already have Sky+ are passionate about this blissfully simpleTV recording device. By making Sky+ even better value, we are now making iteasier for people across the UK to effectively create their own TV channelbringing them primetime TV at any time.”
To find out more about Sky+ call 08702 42 42 42, log ontoSkyPlus.co.ukor visit your nearest Sky+ retailer.
News page content input by Dominic Robinson, 2003.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.