Sky unveils radical way to watch TV with prices starting from just £1

Sky is shaking up the TV market with the launch of a brand new service that can price lower than £1 per day. The satellite tv for pc telly agency is promising that its new Sky Stream platform will provide extra reasonably priced costs, higher flexibility and the possibility to tune into its companies with out the necessity for a dish to be caught to the wall.

Sky Stream makes use of the identical know-how because the Sky Glass TV, which launched final 12 months, with all content material beamed to the mini set-top field by way of a broadband connection. Together with all the perfect stay TV, Sky Stream will even provide full entry to catch-up companies and a simple solution to view exhibits and flicks from premium companies equivalent to Netflix, Disney+ and Apple TV+.

There’s additionally a Playlists part that shops favorite exhibits and content material to be watched later – though it is price noting that, not like Sky Q, there is no inner exhausting disk for bodily recordings.

You additionally get a brand new distant management with backlit keys and this channel changer will get voice search to assist discover content material with out flicking by way of countless menus.

Sky is clearly making an attempt to entice extra prospects over to its service with Stream not solely cheaper but in addition providing extra flexibility.

• Need to know extra about Sky Glass? You possibly can learn our full Sky Glass overview right here.

These signing up can take out a rolling month-to-month contract for £29 monthly or join an 18 month deal for £26 – each of those plans embrace Sky Final TV and Netflix Primary.

Anybody wanting extra to look at can then add extras equivalent to Sky Cinema, Sky Sports activities and BT Sport with the month-to-month value rising relying on what’s added. There’s even the choice to spice up issues by way of the addition of UHD 4K and Dolby Atmos.

Together with having channels added to a single TV, Sky can be providing the choice so as to add extra Stream packing containers to your private home with as much as 5 of those mini packing containers out there to every buyer. Anybody wanting a multiroom expertise can improve to the Entire House pack for an additional £12 a month

Sky has confirmed that there’s a £39.95 set-up price (or £20 should you take an 18-month contract) however there isn’t any want for engineer set up, and next-day supply is commonplace so prospects who be part of needs to be up and working inside hours of inserting their order.

Sky Stream will launch on October 18.

Talking in regards to the launch, Stephen van Rooyen, Govt Vice President & CEO, UK & Europe, Sky mentioned: “Sky’s at all times reinvented the TV expertise and provided the perfect content material – nevertheless it’s not at all times been accessible to everybody. There couldn’t be a greater time to launch our newest innovation utilizing the Sky Glass Platform – whether or not you need to stream Home of the Dragon, Gangs of London or Stranger Issues, Sky Stream has all of it. It’s probably the most reasonably priced and best solution to get Sky TV and Netflix collectively, providing customers the worth they’re in search of proper now.”