HD boxes to become standard with Sky broadband TV bundles
Posted 5th February 2010 at 11:07am by Kimberley Howson
Subscribers to Sky's broadband TV bundles are being invited to join the 'Supertelly' revolution.
The broadband provider has announced that the Sky+ box set is being discontinued as a standalone product, with a new high definition (HD) version arriving in its place.
When signing up to a Sky broadband and TV package, customers will be provided with a Sky+ HD box.
A spokesperson for Sky stated: "We are all really excited about this move here at Sky as we all believe that HD is going to grow significantly in 2010.
"HD is a much better viewing experience than standard definition, especially when watching live sport."
The Sky+ service is continuing unaffected, but the announcement means all new satellite viewers will have the option of high-definition viewing.
Last month, the firm announced it would be launching its own 3D channel in April 2010.
The service, which will be available through the Sky+ HD box, will initially only be available to public houses.
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Dan, 5th February 2010.
But they charge you £10 a month for the usage of HD. So the box may be free, but you have to pay to use the main benefit. Plus, unless you have all the packages and are paying around £60 a month, you're only gonna get HD on a couple of channels, such as BBC stations and e4.
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On top of that, the broadband is capped at 2Mb and limited to 2GB of downloads. Surely they must realise that if they didn't cap speed, applied a download limit of a much more sensible 10GB min and decreased the cost of using HD everyone under the sun would use them?
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