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Sky+ celebrates 10th birthday with limited edition boxes

Monday 21 November, 2011

By Helen Thomas

Colourful collection of Sky+ boxes to mark 10th anniversary.

It has been a decade since Sky+ arrived transforming the way we watch TV, and Sky is celebrating the anniversary with a collection of designer limited edition Sky+HD 1TB boxes.

Agent Provocateur Sky+ box

The range has been designed by ten of the top creative talents in the worlds of fashion, interiors, fabric and jewellery.

Jewellery designer, Solange Azagury-Partridge, delivered perhaps the most eye-catching design, concentric circles of acid-bright colours with bling-tastic, diamond covered lips at the centre - there is no way you’ll lose the matching remote control.

For the more risqué, Agent Provocateur combines baby pink and French maids for a cheeky little Sky+ number - with remote control to match.

If you are after something slightly more mother-in-law appropriate, textile designer Celia Birtwell and traditional paper and paint manufacturers Farrow & Ball have produced subtle, elegant designs.

Jay Jay Burridge Sky+ box

Perhaps you are one of the many of us with a pre-historic themed living room, in which case, Jay Jay Burridge’s triceratops adorned creation couldn’t be more perfect.

The creative line-up is completed by unique designs from Matthew Williamson, Richard Nicoll, Basso & Brooke, Julie Verhoeven and Roksanda Illincic.

These Sky+ boxes aren’t just beautiful though, the terabyte of storage allows you to store 240 hours of high-definition (HD), or a whopping 740 hours of standard definition programmes.

Sky+ has become a staple part of the home entertainment set-up, allowing customers to record their favourite TV series, pause and rewind live TV or record two programmes at once - the service is now used over a billion times a month.

Over 8.3 million homes subscribe to the service - more than the number of households with a cat (5.7 million), dog (5.8 million) or even children (7.7 million).