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Sky giving away digital TV with Net access
News Sky is unashamedly shoving its Skydigital service as hard as it can and makes no apologies to the gang of free ISPs entering the market: "We obviously want a digital box in every UK home" said a Sky spokeswoman.
[May 5, 1999, 14:14]
Lastminute.com inks Sky Digital deal
News Lastminute.com has signed up with Sky Digital to provide its travel and entertainment ticket services to shoppers using interactive TV. As of today, Sky viewers will be able to access lastminute.com's array of travel packages, theatre tickets...
[June 12, 2003, 15:30]
Free broadband modems for Sky subscribers
News Sky Digital customers who sign up for BT's "no-frills" broadband package will get their Alcatel "Green Frog" DSL modem for free, under an agreement announced on Thursday. The special offer, which is available to subscribers to Sky digital's Sky...
[October 17, 2002, 11:34]
Sky launches interactive TV betting
News British Sky Broadcasting (quote: BSY) is to add e-commerce capabilities to its Sky Text service, which provides Internet news and information to Sky Digital subscribers. The service, which operates over Sky's standard digital set-top box, sends...
[December 12, 2000, 16:22]
Digital TV 'tax' slammed by media alliance
News The alliance, unprecedented in modern media, is made of commercial broadcasters including ITV (including its contributing channels), Channel Four, Sky and ON digital who have united in their condemnation of a government report on the future of the...
[August 2, 1999, 17:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But not as frustrating as DAB digital radio: while Sky and On are at least trying to get receivers into the home by giving them away, you can't as yet see much change from £800 if you want to experience a digital Brian Perkins (and I do).
[October 29, 1999, 19:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News But not as frustrating as DAB digital radio: while Sky and On are at least trying to get receivers into the home by giving them away, you can't as yet see much change from £800 if you want to experience a digital Brian Perkins (and I do).
[October 29, 1999, 18:16]
Nokia bets on Linux for home networks
News Telecoms giant Nokia has attacked Sky and other digital content providers, claiming their use of proprietary technology is holding up the market for converged digital TV and Internet services. Heikki Koskin, vice president and general manager for...
[February 10, 2000, 16:17]
Government digital TV plans under threat
News The government's plans for universal digital television, and an analogue signal switch-off may be about to be taken hostage as digital terrestrial broadcaster ONdigital battles against rivals such as British Sky Broadcasting (quote: BSY) and...
[April 10, 2001, 16:02]
BSkyB to buy Amstrad for £125m
News Broadcaster BSkyB is buying Amstrad, the venerable computing name that once made up to a quarter of the European PC business — but the deal is all about set-top boxes, including the popular Sky+ digital video recorder.
[July 31, 2007, 13:15]
ONdigital puts email on telly
News Digital rival Sky is set to offer digital subscribers interactive services including email through its Open TV service which goes live in the autumn, but unlike ONdigital's offering Sky's service will not allow simultaneous TV viewing.
[August 20, 1999, 9:20]
A Year Ago: Digital TV 'tax' slammed by media alliance
News The alliance, unprecedented in modern media, is made of commercial broadcasters including ITV (including its contributing channels), Channel Four, Sky and ON digital who have united in their condemnation of a government report on the future of the...
[August 1, 2000, 7:00]
Analogue switch-off as early as 2006
News So far around 1.5 million households have made the switch from analogue to digital, via either Sky Digital or ONdigital. A Sky Digital spokesman also welcomed the proposed date and hoped it would speed up ITV coming on board the Sky Digital platform.
[September 17, 1999, 17:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog My namesake Mr Murdoch is feeling the pressure from Freeview and digital cable, and as a result he's reported to be pondering giving away his Sky+ personal video recorder boxes. It's Rupert and the Sky Gnomes!
[August 5, 2005, 18:35]
Interactive TV market heats up
News About 60 percent of Sky's 4.7 million digital subscribers are estimated to use Open at least once a week -- amounting to nearly 3 million regular users. Competition for the UK's interactive television business will heat up a notch on Monday with...
[April 30, 2001, 7:36]
BSkyB denies AOL Net TV jibes
News From Sky's point of view the deal means more customers to Sky Digital. Since its launch in October, Sky digital has attracted 350,000 subscribers. Sky Digital is due to launch its own interactive platform in the autumn.
[February 11, 1999, 11:54]
Sky hit by return of Windows Media DRM crack
News Broadcaster Sky has suspended its broadband movie download service after a Microsoft security patch on Windows Media's digital rights management (DRM) was cracked. The service's homepage currently reads: "In order to make an essential update to the...
[September 11, 2006, 13:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog ON has the advantage that it can be installed by the punter and uses existing TV aerials; Sky Digital has a captive audience of millions of existing analogue viewers and effectively no bandwidth limitations.
[April 27, 2001, 17:51]
Thursday
Blog Which means, I calculate, that a fully equipped household now has seven ways to receive Radio 4 -- analogue FM, long wave, Sky, cable, streamed Internet, DAB radio and digital terrestrial TV. A regulator worth its salt would include public access...
[July 5, 2002, 15:41]
