Lighting Up The Small Screen - So you're after satellite television because you want loads of channels, films on-demand and the ability to pause and rewind live TV. You don't really fancy cable, so you've decided to go for Sky. But there are so many different Sky TV packages, which one best suits you?
So
you're after satellite television because you want loads of channels,
films on-demand and the ability to pause and rewind live TV. You
don't really fancy cable, so you've decided to go for Sky. But there
are so many different Sky TV packages, which one best suits
you?
Missed
Something But Don't Mind... Rewind
Undoubtedly one of the most impressive, and frankly useful, Sky TV
offers includes the brilliant Sky +. Sky + allows the television
watcher to pause live TV if someone knocks at the door or calls you
and allows you to hit play whenever you like to instantly begin
catching up with what you normally would have missed. Pretty handy.
Sky + also has a hard drive built in which allows the user to record
all of their favourite shows straight into the memory of the box.
This recording option also allows the watcher to create a 'series
link', where all programs in the series will be recorded
automatically when they are aired, without the user having to specify
what they want to record. The hard drive inside the Sky + box is huge
and would comfortably accommodate dozens of films as well as numerous
TV shows. Imagine being able to relive a historic TV moment any time
you like, you can even relive it in slow motion if you so wish.
I
Can See Clearly Now HD Has Come
The two main benefits of high definition are:
Crystal clear picture quality on HD ready TV's.
Sharper sound quality.
The difference between high definition and standard definition is
truly starling. It's like night and day. Remember the first time you
watched a DVD instead of watching a VHS? OK it's not quite as drastic
as that but you get what I'm saying. The best types of shows to watch
in HD have got to be nature programs. Never before has a frog been so
green or a whale so huge.
Sky Offers all of
the benefits just described with HD as well as having all of the
elements of Sky + built in too. Sounds good. Only recently has the
Sky HD box really become affordable in relation to the other
that were available. For
a long time after coming out, Sky HD was extremely expensive,
probably because not many people had HD televisions when it first
came out. But nowadays, customers don't have to pay much more for Sky
HD over regular Sky + which is good news in the wallet department for
all of us who want the sharpest of the sharp.
There is also standard
Sky television,
which offers you all the benefits of having satellite channels
without having to pay extra for all the fancy stuff. This is ideal
for customers on a budget or those who are generally not fussed about
seeing every single crease on Gordon Ramsay's legendary forehead.
Whatever your needs though, there is a Sky package for you. For the
casual watcher its standard Sky. For the person who refuses to miss a
second of Big Brother then Sky + is the only choice. But if you want
to go all out and enjoy every episode of CSI in gloriously gory
detail it simply has to be Sky HD.
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