Digital TV News

Sky offers new customers free Sky+ box

Thursday 12 November, 2009

By Becca Talbot - becca@consumerchoices.co.uk

A free Sky+ box and a £50 Marks & Spencer voucher could be yours if you subscribe to a Sky TV package before Christmas.

Sky (www.sky.co.uk) is offering all new subscribers a free Sky digital recorder, in either standard or high-definition, if they sign-up for a Sky TV package before 17 December.

The digital TV, broadband and home phone giant is giving all new subscribers a free Sky+ box if they take any Sky TV package for 12 months.

Sky has said there are no conditions to the offer. The company is also offering new customers a free Sky+HD box - worth £49 - but this is only available if they sign-up to a Sky Movies pack as well.

As well as the free Sky digital recorder, all new customers will also get a free £50 M&S voucher, to spend either online or in store.

Customers will still have to pay the standard set-up cost of £30 for either box, and these offers are only eligible to customers that subscribe to the satellite TV service online before 17 December.

Jon Ingram, operations manager at Digitalchoices.co.uk, said: “You could get all your Christmas telly and the food shopping in one hit with Sky’s digital TV offer.”

He added: “The Sky+ box lets you pause and rewind live TV, and you can also record programmes, so you’ll never miss an episode of your favourite show. And with the Sky+HD box also on offer, you call watch some films and programmes in high-definition.”

Sky TV packs start from £17.50 a month for one pack, with the Sky+HD service costing an extra £10 a month. Sky Movies is extra, and prices start from £36.